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Original title: Fog, The
Release Date
• USA: Oct 14, 2005
• UK: 6 Jan 2006
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 24, 2006
Budget $18,000,000
BoxOffice: $29.5M
Official Website:
The Fog Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and brief sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country Canada, USA
Production Companies
David Foster Productions, Revolution Studios, Debra Hill Productions, David Foster Productions
Studio Columbia Pictures
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Fog (2005)
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Supernatural, Revenge, Ghosts
Plot: An island off the Oregon coast is the setting for this salty yarn of ghosts, lepers, betrayal, vengeance, and teen angst. A fog-enshrouded schooner from 1865 returns from the bottom of the sea to wreak vengeance on the locals of the island, and it's up to local DJ Stevie Wayne (Selma Blair), her charter-boat-captain lover, Nick (Tom Welling, from TV's SMALLVILLE), and his wayward girlfriend, Elizabeth (Maggie Grace, from TV's LOST), to save the day. All three are related to the town's founding fathers, with whom the shipbound ghosts have an ancient score to settle. What that score is no one seems to know, but they need to find out, fast. DeRay Davis (BARBERSHOP) provides comic relief as Nick's lusty first mate, but the real scene stealer here is the fog itself, which is much more animated than in the 1980 John Carpenter original. Thanks to some nice CGI work, it slithers in, around, and under everything. Though gussied up with an angst-rock soundtrack and beautiful young TV actors, THE FOG is, at heart, a good old fashioned ghost story, replete with period costumes and inter-dimensional romance. Director Rupert Wainwright (STIGMATA) is good at capturing little details like the eerie tinkling of deep-sea fishing hooks hung out to dry, the textures of moisture-beaded shower stall
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You have to admire the way director Rupert Wainwright never lets a little thing like the specifics of plot interfere with the plodding pace he has set for THE FOG. It is as though he is following the exacting beat of a metronome and be it a scene of a babysitter watching a game show in television, or one of a creepy crawly vengeance-seeking wraith from the past, the penalty for not following its monotonous lead is too horrible to contemplate.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
So yes, if you’re familiar with the original, there’s no reason, other than cheap curiosity, to see this update. And if you’re unfamiliar with the original, there’s no reason for you to pass that one over for this lesser version. Who knows? Maybe if we ignore these pointless remakes enough, pretty soon they’ll all go away.  --David Cornelius (eFilmCritic.com)
For the same $9 or so that you would spend to see “The Fog” in theaters, you could go to your local megastore and pick up the DVD of John Carpenter’s original. While that film was no masterpiece, it was an entertaining and efficient B movie that knew howto entertain audiences without utterly insulting their intelligence.  --Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com)
However, under the eye of director Rupert Wainwright, the new “Fog” is a dreadful bore, blowing every chance to rise above mediocrity and establish itself as the exception to the updates-are-awful rule. --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
...remakes like this one paint all the others with a huge and objectionable brush ... because this flick absolutely stinks of half-hearted effort and assembly-line cynicism. It's not that "The Fog" couldn't yield a half-decent remake; it's that, in this case, nobody even seems to be trying. --Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
This "Fog'' is more of the same fodder Carpenter dished out 25 years ago, albeit with an updated wardrobe. It's not much more than a popcorn night out at the movies, but the stop-and-go music and jerky camera movements will give a number of moviegoers the willies.  --Chelsea Bain
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Tom Welling
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