Movie Review - The Fog (remake)

Watch The Original, It's much better!

I won't go as far as to give this a 1/10, but it came close to deserving it. The first thing you have to ask when reviewing this film is have you seen the original. I have. There's going to be lots of spoilers so lets just dive right in. We have Selma Blair who looks about 13, and is no Adrienne Barbeu. She's playing Stevie Wayne and there isn't going to be any "Chased up the lighthouse" sequence in this version sadly. The boy playing her son looks older than she does, so clearly they picked the wrong person for that role. Someone who looks a fair bit older would have suited.

We're back in Antonio Bay but this time we're calling it Antonio Island. Instead of smugglers/pirates/buccaneers (whatever they were in the original) we have a ship full of families with leprosy who have bought land on the island fair & square, their ship is set on fire and they are robbed and killed by the founding fathers of Antonio Island. It seems most people on the island are related to at least one of the founding fathers (I would have liked to have seen the ghosts go up to the black guy, look at him, then ignore him as not related to the killers).

The priest is played the same way as the original but the final conflict is in the Town Hall instead of The Church. The whole past lives things was a waste of time. Why Stevie didn't just take her brake off and put her car into neutral when she was on the road (she was on the crest of a hill facing downwards, she could have bump started the car that way easily) and how the truck missed her headlights which were on. The ghosts in the river and coming through the sink annoyed me. I noticed they kept the "saving Stevie's son through a window" idea which did still work as well.

Mostly the plot has been kept the same apart from a few small places. If you want to enjoy the film and you haven't seen the original, by all means watch this. If you've seen the original and want to compare the two then watch this. Otherwise just stick with the original, this will leave a bad taste in your mouth and a lack of respect for John Carpenter who knows he could have done much better. He will have to produce something mind blowing and mentally scary to make up for this.