A lot of critics and movie fans give this remake a lot of hate. And I can clearly see why. Other than in the original version of John Carpenter from 1980 you will have a hard time to get attached to the actors for the character development is blend and most of the dialogues are quite off. Especially the two leading characters played by Tom Welling and Maggie Grace are an epic fail. However, John Carpenter himself was sitting on the producer chair here, so he must have seen something in this movie. And there is actually some quite good stuff in it as well. The animation of the fog itself looks great and I totally love how they changed the 1980's zombie look of the crew to a transparent but still great looking ghost appearance. The showdown also is very great, with an unecpected ending and therefore I consider it quite entertaining. If you really expect a remake of the original, you will be pretty disappointed, for only very little details carried over to Rupert Wainwright's take on of the material. After all it would have been really interesting to have Carpenter direct this classic once more and bring it up to the standards of the modern times!

Wow, what an awful film. It's not just an awful film but a smear on the original John Carpenter film which was, in my opinion, a horror masterpiece. Don't waste your time or money on this movie, buy the original, this version is unwatchable.

Though many have said a great deal of negative things about this movie, and on many counts I totally agree, I believe that The Fog has a great deal of potential. The acting would probably have been better if they brought in a set of toddlers and gave them the scripts (sarcasm). The best actor was Elizabeth, but that is not saying much. What this story needs is a descent director and a better budget. The computer animation was fairly well done as 2005 movies go. No, what this story needs is someone to streamline the progression of the plot and add more character development while also adding a scare factor greater than negative five. Much of the story, while intriguing, was marred by the bad acting and a management team that deserved to be fired. I, personally, am hoping to see another remake of The Fog in the next decade or so, and when it happens I would very much like to be on the staff or better yet the editor.

I had read critics reviews that this remake of the 1980 classic John Carpenter scary movie was meant to be terrible, having seen many horror remakes myself that does not surprise, it is very rare that one will be as good or successful as the original. Basically Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, is about to unveil a statue to honour the four men who founded the town in 1871, who founded their town in 1871: Patrick Malone (Christian Bocher), Norman Castle (Charles André), Richard Wayne (Yves Cameron) and David Williams (Douglas H. Arthurs). One of the descendants of the men, Norman Castle, is Nick Castle (Smallville's Tom Welling) owns a fishing charter company, his vessel the Seagrass is used for tourism, his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams (Taken's Maggie Grace) has spent six months in New York and has returned to the island. At a local radio station, host Stevie Wayne (Cruel Intentions' Selma Blair) gets a call from her weatherman that a large fog bank is approaching, this mysterious fog hits and a bizarre series of events begin to occur following it, including several gruesome deaths. After slipping into the sea Elizabeth happens upon an old journal from 1871, written by one of the town founders, Patrick Malone, telling how a man named Captain William Blake (Rade Sherbedgia) bought half of the island for use of a leper colony, on his ship, the Elizabeth Dane, Blake was betrayed by Castle, Wayne, Williams and Malone, he and the people on the ship were locked together, their possessions and money were stolen, and the ship was set on fire, killing everyone aboard. Returning after this flashback to the present day, the evil spirits of Blake and his crew, all turned into nasty looking pirate ghosts, have risen from their watery grave and returned to Antonio Island, seeking revenge on the descendants of the four men. Also starring DeRay Davis as Spooner, Kenneth Welsh as Tom Malone, Adrian Hough as Father Malone, Sara Botsford as Kathy Williams, Cole Heppell as Andy Wayne, Mary Black as Aunt Connie and Jonathon Young as Dan The Weatherman. I don't think there's any point mentioning Welling, Grace, Blair or anyone else, because I'd already seen the original I knew what to expect, the mystery element doesn't work, the special effects are only mildly good, the soundtrack is mixed, the only bit that got my attention was a woman being hit by the fog, melting and only her skeleton remaining, and the zombie-like marine invaders are pointless, this is definitely another fail at a remake, a rubbish horror film. Poor!