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Fog, The
Sony Pictures Entertainment


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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and brief sexuality

Starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, Rade Serbedzija, Kenneth Welsh, Adrian Hough, and Cole Heppell

There really is something out there in the dark. In the small town of Antonio Bay, a terrifying and malevolent force hidden within a thick and eerie fog terrorized its residents. Shrouded by the fog lies a ghastly secret of merciless revenge, one that the town's inhabitants would do well to unravel -- before it's too late. (Revolution Studios)

GENRE(S):	Action \| Horror \| Mystery \| Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Cooper Layne John Carpenter (1980 screenplay) Debra Hill (1980 screenplay)
DIRECTED BY:	Rupert Wainwright
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: January 24, 2006 Video: January 24, 2006 Theatrical: October 14, 2005
RUNNING TIME:	100 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Boston Globe Ty Burr

This new Fog floats in on the fumes of the 1980 John Carpenter original, but the surprise is that it's arguably better.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

It's virtually indiscernible from any other contemporary horror film except for, well, the fog.

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

The production values are above par, but as in Carpenter's original, seeing ghosts is less scary than imagining them.

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Nothing comes together after the first ten minutes.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Director Rupert Wainwright fails to bring any style to the material, not producing a fraction of the suspense or wit generated by Carpenter in the original even while working with a far lesser budget.

Variety Joe Leydon

Unfortunately, interest lags between the grisly deaths, and, worse, none of the characters generates rooting interest.

The New York Times Anita Gates

Mildly scary here and there. It does not play by all the horror movie rules (e.g., the black guy always dies first). And the cast is good-looking.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

If the characters were more interesting, the long, long buildup to their night of ghostly reckoning might be suspenseful rather than tedious.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson

Most of The Fog will seem drearily perfunctory even to those viewers who don't know Carpenter's version, which itself emulated the elegant gloom of Val Lewton's horror pics of the 1940s.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Less fun than "Cry_Wolf" and "Venom," if that's possible.

Village Voice R. Emmet Sweeney

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.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The fog also does something genuinely eerie: It causes everyone in the cast to deliver dreadful performances and display inappropriate reactions when their friends are drowned, burned, stabbed or thrown into glass display cases.

New York Post Kyle Smith

I was held in suspense throughout The Fog, aching to learn the answer to its central riddle: Why would any one remake such a crummy movie?

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Selma Blair, the one vibrant actress in a cast of colorless screamers (including Tom Welling from Smallville and Maggie Grace from Lost), takes Adrienne Barbeau's old role.

Film Threat Michael Ferraro

It's too mediocre (and PG-13) to be classified as a horror film, too inane to be taken seriously and too uninteresting to be bothered with.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Such a monumentally bad remake of such an exceptionally chilling genre favorite.

The average user rating for this movie is 2.9 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Clint M. gave it a2:
Laughably awful. a few scares at the beginning and a hint of mediocrity ... but sadly, it can't even reach that level. TERRIBLE.

Cryptkeeper lookalike gave it a2:
although watching the screenwriter pat his own back in the extras was fun, I still think the best part was when I fell asleep.

CJ gave it a1:
Extremely poor at best. The storyline was atrocious and far too predictable. I'm not surprised the cinema was empty at the time I watched it.

Jack S. gave it a0:
OK. I definitely should've heeded the reviews here, because they're dead on. This was so incredibly bad, however there is some good news: I've learned to fast-forward rather quickly using the XBox 360 controller.

Rog B. gave it a0:
Wow. Bad bad bad. The scariest thing about the whole film is that Carpenter was actually one of the producers, meaning he didn't just bear but was ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN the making of this laughable remake. The PG13 rating immediately takes away any chance of gore fun (don't be fooled by the "unrated" label on the DVD... that prolly just means they added an extra 30 seconds to the film somewhere) and everything else is lost right away when you realize the way this movie wants to play. Honestly the only thing this director seems to have a grasp of is filming ships docking and people being thrown through windows (which becomes so frequent that it is hillarious as the film progresses). The editing is so dizzying and sudden that you'll swear you just suffered severe whiplash, as the movie switches violently from, say, a guy getting his eye knifed to two fun lovin' teens at Starbucks. The whole resurgence of horror movies (really, really bad horror movies) at theaters has been fun at points (everything by Uwe Boll, for example) but now it's getting to the point that it's just embarassing and boring. This is really scraping the barrel.

wesley gave it a0:
Lost In The Fog ran in the Breeder's Cup and lost but this movie should have been lost in the fog as it was awful.

Michael K. gave it a2:
Just awful... none of the suspense or general creepiness of the original. The acting is fair by an attractive cast, but the material seems lost in a fog . I can imagine the script meetings...."No, we must be creative... I know, instead of the boy finding part of the ships sign, lets make it a hairbrush! Plus, we could have the ghosts spray paint on a grave in the cemetery!"

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Fog, The
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