Wow! Such a good movie.

A different way of telling a story

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I don't know why people are trashing this film. I thought it was pretty good, on par with a made for TV film. The story held together pretty well, though about 9 or 10 minutes could have been shaved without affecting the story much. The acting, the action, the score, and everything else was fine. This remake was not as good as the original, but what remake is? And while I freely admit this film will never be on the AFI's top 100 list, it doesn't need to be. It's entertaining, and that's exactly what it's meant to be. I have to wonder what's going on with the low ratings. For a movie as unheard of as this one, there are an awful lot of comments. But that's a matter for someone who cares to look into. A nice little not too horrible horror film that would be perfect for a rainy evening with a bowl of popcorn covered in real butter.

To start off the original Fog despite any flaws it may have had (personally I don't think it had any) was a truly brilliant, chilling, and genuinely terrifying horror movie .The movie was also disturbing without being gory which they also got right .The fact that you don't see an ounce of violence in this film yet having your imagination fill in the blanks of the gross mutilation sounds you hear when the victims are killed is a perfect example of how genius John Carpenter was especially back then.The remake however ...well let me get the good out of the way first .Good : special effects were creepy at times I really liked it at the beginning when the fog slowly swirled around the boat then entered it .That's about it for the good .The bad however is too excessive to list here .Bad : the acting especially the female lead who sleepwalked through the film and couldn't act if her life depended on it.The pathetic , boring, and unneeded exposition was also incredibly bad .In the original Fog they didn't need a backstory these pirates were simply evil and would kill anyone including a small innocent child .They made it clear in the original film that they were ambushed and murdered so they came back centuries later to get revenge on the descendants of those who killed them.The TWIST at the end was beyond laughable and it made absolutely no sense nor did the pointless story for that matter.Back to the acting none of the characters were remotely interesting in this film unlike the original where all the characters were immediately interesting .Selma Blair came across as a cardboard cutout and epitomized the words boring and bland.She did NOT do Adrienne Barbereau character in the original film justice period.She was also supposed to be a mother to a young boy but instead of Adriennes completely natural mother Selmas was more of an awkward friend or very distant relative not a mother.The actor who played the priest might as well been in the background considering how uninteresting his character and overall acting was.Now to Tom Welling this was when he was in his prime during the Smallville and Cheaper By The Dozen era .However that being said his acting was absolutely wooden and dull he was essentially lifeless as a character and as an actor it just sucked .Maggie Graces mom in the film also I've seen that actress in better movies and TV shows where she actually proved she COULD act .In this movie however she was the typical mean mom I've seen in so many other movies .The spirits also ?Horrible when I first saw that part under the water and the evil spirit it looked neat .Now mind you that was 2005 when I thought that now I know better.Now seeing it or simply looks like really cheap CGI.To end I would never recommend this movie but I would always highly recommend the classic original that movie is just awesome period .This movie only wished it could have even come close to the original but ultimately it wound up being a complete and utter failure .Oh and one last thing near the end you see the face of a spirit and all I can say is it was hilariously bad looking .You'll see what I mean if you watch it or have watched it.

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

After a series of strange encounters, a small sea-town comes to believe the fulfillment of a deadly curse is being brought upon by a series of malicious ghosts and try to stop it before it's too late.Quite frankly, this is a highly underrated effort that's one of the more enjoyable remakes among this current crop. One of the only true flaws to this is the lower rating which does harm this one. The kills here really lack any sort of impact or brutality with the lack of blood throughout here, and the other attacks have a slightly less intense bite to them than they otherwise would with a darker tone to this. There's also the act that this one tends to overplay its scenes far longer than they're worth, which is slightly odd in that it makes for overlong and overly dramatic scare scenes that overstay their welcome at times and instead drains some of their impact. Still, there's a lot to like here in the fact that the build-up in here is incredibly well-done with this one featuring the early visions of the ships' fate along with the items washed ashore both creating a rather fine and exciting set-up as well as the burgeoning mystery they lead to surrounding the sudden appearance of the journal explaining everything that finally puts everything together. That helps makes scenes like the ambush or sea or the supernatural activities in the radio station to seem all the more enjoyable as well as being highly suspenseful by milking the idea of the fog being a malevolent entity in this one. The scenes of it moving through town, surrounding buildings and weaving along the hallways makes for a thoroughly chilling scenario about what's trapped in the fog. When it finally pays that off in the final half causes this to be all the more enjoyable and entertaining by making for a rather chilling connection with the back-story given already in here which is where this one gets the most out of its storyline. That also helps to make for a really fine finale by really getting the good attacks and really creepy scenarios in here that really make for a high-note ending here which really sells this one. The last part to like here is the rather inspired amount of suspense in here, from the attack on the lighthouse worker and the fog chasing the family through the house to even shorter scenes with the trapped car underwater, the fake-drowning in the outhouse or the final assault in the library which makes for some really good times in here. While they may seem a little like a cop-out, these make it enjoyable enough.Rated PG-13: Violence, some Language and shadowy Nudity.