Review of The Fog (2005) by Alan H — 23 Dec 2013

I remember watching John Carpenter's The Fog when I was in high school, watching almost every horror movie I could. From what I remember, it wasn't too bad. Certainly not one of Carpenter's best, but definitely not his worst.

With that being said, did we really need a remake to a film that was already classified as some-what mediocre? I finally caught this film to see what all the fuss was about. This does more than not doing justice to Carpenter's original.

It flat out insults it. I hate how most modern day horror remakes try to go deeper into the story of a film that had such a basic premise. This film tries way too hard to be edgier than the original (kind of hard to do since it's PG-13) by exploring the history of the ghostly murderers.

What results is a terrible story with barely anything interesting to redeem it. The pacing in this film is awful. Most of the film is incredibly slow and by the time some action finally does happen, there's only about 10-15 minutes left in the movie.

The actors ranged from average to annoying. I absolutely couldn't stand one character, Spooner, because he was trying so hard to be "hip" and "cool" for the younger audience. The effects for this film were also pretty bad.

It may seem like I'm a bit disjointed in this review, but that's because there's so much wrong with this film that it's hard for me to transition between everything. This film is all around stupid and completely pointless.

The ending to this has to be one of the worst I've ever seen in horror movie history. Please, for the love of god, avoid this film like the plague. It had an interesting first 2 minutes, but everything afterwards was just bad, stupid, and a pitiful excuse for a horror movie.