The Fog (2005)
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 64
The Fog is a so-so remake of a so-so movie, lacking scares, suspense or originality.
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 13
The Fog is a so-so remake of a so-so movie, lacking scares, suspense or originality.
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John Carpenter's well-remembered thriller gets an update in this remake from director Rupert Wainwright. Nick Castle (Tom Welling) is a charter-boat captain in the small coastal town of Antonio Bay. Castle's ancestors helped to found Antonio Bay, but while the city's mayor (Kenneth Welsh) and the head of the local historical society (Sara Botsford) are spearheading an effort to raise money for a statue that would honor the city fathers, Castle is more interested in seeing the town's rickety
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Tom Welling
Nick Castle -
Maggie Grace
Elizabeth Williams -
Rade Serbedzija
Father Blake -
DeRay Davis
Brett Spooner -
Kenneth Welsh
Tom Malone -
Selma Blair
Stevie Wayne -
Adrian Hough
Father Malone -
Sara Botsford
Kathy Williams -
Cole Heppell
Andy Wayne -
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (67) | DVD (13)
Never will you wish more fervently for an Adrienne Barbeau cameo, just for old time's sake. Your prayers will be in vain.
Top CriticThe production values are above par, but as in Carpenter's original, seeing ghosts is less scary than imagining them.
Yet another anaemic horror retread starring a cast of good-looking TV totty.
Mildly scary here and there.
Like most remakes, The Fog is pretty unnecessary.
Making concessions at every turn to the youth-horror market, the film slashes the ages of its protagonists by some 15 years, and its IQ follows suit.
These studios just don't know when to quit while they're ahead.
Lame remake of 1980 horror movie.
A boorishly bland supernatural action thriller.
Even the geography of the film doesn't seem to make sense.
So concerned is the film with contriving at least one gratuitous jump-fright every five minutes that elements like character and story soon become lost in the fog.
A lousy remake of a not-so-good John Carpenter film.
Don't be afraid.
With dialogue as dorky as the words new screenwriter Cooper Lane stuffed in their mouths, none of the hapless cast members could have sounded convincing.
If you are a fan of the original film, this remake might interest you. It's not badly made. But why was it made at all?
...the latest in a long line of needless horror remakes..
The actors do their best, under the circumstances. Welling makes an engaging lead and Grace employs her trademarked wounded, fragile look (that serves her so well in Lost) to good effect and wanders around in her underwear a lot.
A mediocre remake of a 1980s horror movie of the same name which wasn't that good to begin with.
Another remake bites the dust.
A dull, stupid, boring picture, inferior in every way to the John Carpenter film it remakes, but it's bad for the same reason a lot of effects-driven movies are bad.
The deleted scenes are mostly superfluous as these things usually are, but two of them really stood out and should have, in my opinion, made their way into the final cut.
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Foreign Titles
- Fog, The (2006) (UK)
- Fog (FR)
The age old saying of less is more goes begging yet again folks. This glossy remake simply offers nothing that the original doesn't offer in a better way. There are no real thrills, chills or scares anyway in this extremely poor remake. Not to say that the original was really scary, it wasn't, but it had great atmosphere and more importantly was for an older audience.
Yep you guessed it, this overly long remake is a PG-13 cert...oh good grief. The plot is of course nothing terribly scary, an old spooky sea yarn, but at least try for some genuine thrills and a creepy atmosphere. All you get is a pretty blonde boring teen screaming a lot, a token black guy, long drawn out effects which don't add anything and worse fog effects than the original!.
Some of the effects are nice admittedly but they aren't really needed, its like the plot, it just delves way too deep and goes on too long when it doesn't have to. A typical effect that shows the over the top nature of the production is the tsunami looking wave of fog that approaches the 'Seagrass'.
Despite the plot being too long it still manages to not make a huge amount of sense right at the end. The ghost effects at the end are also laughable. A complete and utter mistake for all involved, could have been decent if made correctly but it wasn't. Devoid of anything remotely interesting or even slightly scary/spooky.