The Fog (2005)

Wow, what an awful film. It's not just an awful film but a smear on the original John Carpenter film which was, in my opinion, a horror masterpiece. Don't waste your time or money on this movie, buy the original, this version is unwatchable.

This film is not that good but it is not as terrible as everyone makes it out to be. The original was done by John Carpenter. I believe John Carpenter would feel that it was done pretty good justice. It has removed the cheesy pirates that were in the original and replaced it with a more supernatural feel to it. Though some of the deaths in the movie are fairly cheap at times, I feel for a remake it is all around not bad. Anyone who enjoyed horror movies of the 70's & 80's then you want to check it out. I enjoy goofy and great old school horror movies. When a remake is done it should be far superior than the original or at least attempt to. This movie stays very close to the original which I enjoyed. Again this is not a great movie and it is border line crappy but it is not as bad as everyone reviewing it makes it out to be. It's a good Halloween time movie to watch on TV if it comes on. As much as I love John Carpenter I feel this movie is definitely better than the original. Not a lot better but it still is. Don't go out of your way for this but if it's on and it's in the Spirit of Halloween time then give it a watch with a few beers. Take it for were it came from.

I remember John Carpenter's 1980 film THE FOG but only very vaguely so looked up my review of the 1980 version where I wrote that it was a moody and atmospheric horror . I can see what the producers of this remake were trying to do and that is recreate the atmosphere of the original and even though they try there seems to be something missing . I'm not saying this is a great film and by doing a fairly straight remake it shows signs of laziness on the part of the studio but it probably deserves a slightly higher average rating of 3.6 Perhaps the main problem is the casting . Tom Welling , Selma Blair and Maggie Grace ? A little bit too pretty and young compare them with the cast of the original who did tend to look like "real people" for a better phrase and were of a wider age demographic . Ah I think I might have hit the nail on he head . This remake tries to pander to the teen demographic where a senior citizen is anyone on the wrong side of 30 . There's also a bit more incidents involved almost as though the studio think teens will be bored senseless if nothing much is happening which means everything is a bit clichéd . Perhaps worst of all the film feels the need to explain the ending and how it ties in with the rest of the narrative where as the original is left open ended and ambiguous and if a film needs to spoon feed the audience information in a clumsy way this can only be seen as a failure . As I said it's not a great film but probably no worse than the other vapid and insipid remakes we've seen over the last ten years

I picked this movie up thinking that it was good I had never seen the original before and I had not read any reviews about it either. I really wish I had. This is one of those movies you keep hoping will get better but it really does not. I think after about 10 to 15 minutes into it I started to get bored and a little while after that I started to get quite irritated. The actors are bad half the time it looks like the were also bored while making the movie (I would not blame them) Would not recommend this movie to anyone unless you want to waste about an hour and a half of your time and be very bored. I rate this a 1 out of 10