Like watching a cut-rate Roger Corman rip-off of a big Hollywood film, only the tables are ironically turned. The big budget studio version seems pale in comparison.
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10/16/05
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The Fog (2005)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:3
Rotten:61
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: The Fog is a so-so remake of a so-so movie, lacking scares, suspense or originality.
Theatrical Release:Oct 14, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $29,511,112
Synopsis: An island off the Oregon coast is the setting for this salty yarn of ghosts, lepers, betrayal, vengeance, and teen angst. A fog-enshrouded schooner from 1865 returns from the bottom of the sea to... [More]
Starring: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, Kenneth Walsh
Director: Rupert Wainwright
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Reviews for The Fog
Best-viewed through actual fog.
01/25/06
Mold-covered clichés are the most frightening things in The Fog.
10/21/05
Like most remakes, The Fog is pretty unnecessary.
10/29/05
Top Critic[It] pales in comparison to Carpenter’s original fogbanks, some of which were created by optical effects nearly as ancient as filmmaking itself but still vastly more believable than anything seen in this absolutely dreadful and just plain dull remake.
10/29/05
A movie where everyone's last breath ends in a scream. Where is Adrienne Barbeau when we need her?
10/14/05
Another remake bites the dust.
02/14/06
Even the geography of the film doesn't seem to make sense.
07/14/07
This Fog lacks the one thing the original had -- originality -- but it qualifies as more than a mist opportunity.
10/17/05
The acting is stilted and the direction clunky — not that the original was any masterpiece.
10/29/05
That John Carpenter, credited here as a producer, had a hand in diminishing his own legacy would be tragic if any of this mattered.
10/29/05
The production values are above par, but as in Carpenter's original, seeing ghosts is less scary than imagining them.
03/06/07
These studios just don't know when to quit while they're ahead.
04/29/09
It seems to set a record for the quantity of shock moments that involve either a pane of glass breaking or something catching fire.
10/25/05
Pale WB-style hunks and hotties and a 'funny' black guy whose sole purpose is to say words like 'dawg' confront a CGI mist that looks like it could be erased with a couple of mouse clicks.
01/19/06
A boorishly bland supernatural action thriller.
01/15/08
A textbook example of how not to make a horror film.
10/14/05
Horror remakes like this one paint all the others with a huge and objectionable brush, because this flick absolutely stinks of half-hearted effort and assembly-line cynicism.
10/14/05
Who knows? Maybe if we ignore these pointless remakes enough, pretty soon they’ll all go away.
10/14/05
The Fog is a bore, laden with unspectacular special effects and dreadful acting from television-trained youth who don’t have the experience to truly deliver the goods.
10/14/05
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