The Fog Review by Joe (2 Stars)

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Directed By
Rupert Wainwright

Written By:
Cooper Layne

Cast:
Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, Rade Serbedzija, Mary Black

The Fog (2005)

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Movie Review by Joe
May 25th, 2006

Yes, another remake. I think Hollywood is slowly running out of ideas.

This remake is from John Carpenter's original The Fog back in 1980 with scream movie legend Jamie Lee Curtis. The only thing I will respect about this remake is that Carpenter had a hand in it, despite many other remakes where the original director isn't even involved.

The Fog is directed by Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) and stars Tom Welling (TV's "Smallville"), Maggie Grace (TV's "Lost"), Selma Blair (Hellboy, Legally Blonde), DeRay Davis (Johnson Family Vacation, Barbershop), and Sara Botsford (TV's "The West Wing").

The premise of this movie is a small harbor town in Oregon, where mysterious treasures are being washed up on the shore. Suddenly a fog enters the town, and within the fog is unearthly beings who desire revenge for something that happened to them many years earlier thanks to the forefathers of the city.

This is a typical horror movie with the typical characters. You have the main muscle-bound guy Nick (Welling), his mysterious, yet beautiful girlfriend Elizabeth (Grace), the single unwed mother with an attitude Stevie (Blair), the token black-guy who surprisingly didn't die Spooner (Davis), and the annoying little kid you wish would just die (Cole Heppel).

The fog effects and the ghostly images were cool, but the death scenes were lame and typical. Makes me glad I live in Ohio, where we don't have fog coming in from any ocean.

And let's just say it was a BIG mistake casting Welling in this movie. Kinda like casting Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Grudge. They're both too well-known for their superhero types on television (Welling as Superman in "Smallville" and Gellar as vampire slayer Buffy in "Buffy"). I was expecting Welling to burn the ghosts with his eyes or fly off with Elizabeth or something like that. Actually he was kinda weak in this movie.

Spooner: I got an idea. Why don't you do some work around here and I'll go get the clutch.
Nick Castle: Cause I'm the Skipper, and you're Gilligan.
Spooner: Like that? After all the "we", now I'm just Gilligan. I'm by myself, huh?

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