Critic Reviews
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Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Never will you wish more fervently for an Adrienne Barbeau cameo, just for old time's sake. Your prayers will be in vain.
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Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
The production values are above par, but as in Carpenter's original, seeing ghosts is less scary than imagining them.
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Mark Salisbury, Time Out
Yet another anaemic horror retread starring a cast of good-looking TV totty.
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Anita Gates, New York Times
Mildly scary here and there.
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Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Like most remakes, The Fog is pretty unnecessary.
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R. Emmet Sweeney, Village Voice
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.
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Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
These studios just don't know when to quit while they're ahead.
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Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media
Lame remake of 1980 horror movie.
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Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons
A boorishly bland supernatural action thriller.
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Joe Lozito, Big Picture Big Sound
Even the geography of the film doesn't seem to make sense.
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Anton Bitel, Eye for Film
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.
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Bob Grimm, Sacramento News & Review
A lousy remake of a not-so-good John Carpenter film.
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Simon Crook, Empire Magazine
Don't be afraid.
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Bruce Kirkland, Jam! Movies
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.
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
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?
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...the latest in a long line of needless horror remakes..
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Matthew Turner, ViewLondon
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.
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James O'Ehley, SA Movie & DVD Magazine
A mediocre remake of a 1980s horror movie of the same name which wasn't that good to begin with.
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Matthew Leyland, BBC
Another remake bites the dust.
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Paul Byrnes, Sydney Morning Herald
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.
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Featured Audience Ratings
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The second remake in the same year for some of Carpenter's old classics and it doesn't seem like a lesson was learnt.
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… More
The second remake in the same year for some of Carpenter's old classics and it doesn't seem like a lesson was learnt.
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.
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Scary, but quite boring. Switched off once or twice and the storyline wasn't really that interesting. Good but not great!
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The fog remake totally ruined a piece of classic Horror cinema. It's curious to me why studios continue to remake classics that cannot be remade cause they're so good. But this remake is awful, nothing good going for it, and a waste of celluloid. For fans of the original,… More
The fog remake totally ruined a piece of classic Horror cinema. It's curious to me why studios continue to remake classics that cannot be remade cause they're so good. But this remake is awful, nothing good going for it, and a waste of celluloid. For fans of the original, this film is a travesty., a film with no creative value whatsoever. The reason that remakes are so bad is that they cast teen idols inb the roles of the characters to hopefully and successfully attract a teen audience. In this remake, you have many stars that may appeal to a teen audience, and in does. I overheard my sisters friends (who are teenagers) talk about how good this film is, teens today don't know shit aboiut great horror titles, and they always seemed suprised vand insulted that these are remakes, and when we the film connoisseurs say the originals films are better, they refuse to believe it. Some remakes are good, I'll admit, but most fail, and this remake certainly fails. It's good on special effects only, but doesn't do anything as good as the original did. This film is simply bad. Poor cast, copied plot, and poor directing should make this film drown in actual fog.
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This is another 'painted by numbers' remake of a superior horror film. The back story was explored a little more which was nice but all the suspense and feeling of impending doom from the original were missing. The ending was farcical and stupid. Don't waste your time!
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This ghostly thriller remake is average as the leper colony ghosts were not scary. They were all see through, and instead of a giant fishing hook.
There are two good things though. There is one pretty shocking death scene that was cool and there were some cool cinematography shots.… More
This ghostly thriller remake is average as the leper colony ghosts were not scary. They were all see through, and instead of a giant fishing hook.
There are two good things though. There is one pretty shocking death scene that was cool and there were some cool cinematography shots.
Horror remake of 1980's <i>The Fog</i>.
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So not scary. They tried hard.
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I saw the Original with Jamie Lee Curtis didnt liked it neither the Remake. The Original was a tiny bit stupid with those eyes coming out of the fog. I thought it was Horror turned in to a SciFi
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Not bad, nothing great, so about average.
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Superman fights a ghostly gang of old sailors whose backstory is complete bullshit and in reality were a group of murdering backstabbing assholes. Horrible acting all-around. The story makes very little sense, but with the deleted full flashback scene I finally understood it and would… More
Superman fights a ghostly gang of old sailors whose backstory is complete bullshit and in reality were a group of murdering backstabbing assholes. Horrible acting all-around. The story makes very little sense, but with the deleted full flashback scene I finally understood it and would give this movie a full star-and-a-half extra if they would've left it in. But they cut it. This movie sucks so bad not even Selma Blair is worth a shit in it.
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An extremelly failed attempt to scare people. First of all, I hate these remakes. That just proves that the filmmakers have nothing original to show you. Second, why did they do a remake of a very poor "classic". The original was just as stupid and non-scary as this one.… More
An extremelly failed attempt to scare people. First of all, I hate these remakes. That just proves that the filmmakers have nothing original to show you. Second, why did they do a remake of a very poor "classic". The original was just as stupid and non-scary as this one. But it didn't suck ass...
The acting is awful, there's no tension in the film and it just bores the hell out of me. Avoid.
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Didn't read into it enough to watch more than I saw...
Too bad, nifty story though.
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Cheessy adaption of John Carpenterīs classic
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I wasn't expecting much from this remake and so I wasn't disappointed in what I got out of it. As usual, it wasn't as good as the original. Adrienne Barbeau was far sexier as Stevie Wayne than Selma Blair... although I think Selma wins hands down on the wearing of… More
I wasn't expecting much from this remake and so I wasn't disappointed in what I got out of it. As usual, it wasn't as good as the original. Adrienne Barbeau was far sexier as Stevie Wayne than Selma Blair... although I think Selma wins hands down on the wearing of disturbingly tiny pants in the vicinity of the child actor playing her son. It just seemed very wrong to me for some reason.
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A fairly tame update, not as scary or gory....more of a ghost story.
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Hahahahahahaha you'd have to be an idiot for something like this to scare you. I've gotten more scared filing my taxes.
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Go see the original. It was much better.
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The fog is back after 100 years when it wrecked a ship and killed all the people onboard. Now the fog is back and is seeking to kill whoever it can find on the open ocean. I thought this movie was very predictable and somewhat boring. I didn't find it scary because I've seen… More
The fog is back after 100 years when it wrecked a ship and killed all the people onboard. Now the fog is back and is seeking to kill whoever it can find on the open ocean. I thought this movie was very predictable and somewhat boring. I didn't find it scary because I've seen it all before in other forms. If you love nu-horror movies like 'Scream' and 'I know what you did last summer', you'll probably like this one. I know that I won't be watching this movie again.
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Decent effects cannot save a film riddled with poor performances, wretchworthy dialogue and non-existant scares. Highly missable.
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