Review of The Fog (2005) by Amoviecritic — 21 Oct 2005

Ugh. And I thought The Skeleton Key was bad....The horror genre's really gone downhill in the last year. The Fog seemed like a made for TV movie rather than something that should have went on the big screen.

With a cast made up of mostly people from TV, and with a director whose most recent works include MC Hammer music videos, clearly the producers and studio were not too confident about the quality of this script.

(from the person who co-wrote The Core.) And for good reason. This movie's script is terrible. Everything from the unbelievable situations and the dialogue to the bland, no-peronality characters, to the lame PG-13 violence, to the lack of scares and poor pacing, just destroys the movie.

There is a plot in here somewhere, but it's so bad that I can't even describe it to you. (It's not even revealed until the last 20 minutes of the movie anyway.) It seems to take forever for the fog to even show up, and until then, we're forced to watch these characters do nothing of interest for a long time.

And when the fog does show up, we are thrown so many horror cliche's that it's a bit unbelievable. Everything from "OH NO! THE CAR'S NOT STARTING!" to the "monster coming out of the garbage disposal" and the "person on the autopsy table coming alive" is done here, making each and every scare very predictable.

This movie was not screened for critics, and the word of mouth hasn't been good, so it was with ZERO expectations that I went into this movie. I expected it to be stupid, but I also expected AT LEAST something eerie that would scare me a few times over the 100 minutes of this movie's run time.

But even with no expectations except for a "dumb but scary horror film" I ended up disappointed. This movie wasn't remotely scary, the pacing was terrible, and overall, the movie was just boring.

Do not see this movie for any reason.