Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.
A pale remake of John Carpenter's 1980 classic, The Fog (2005) struggles on nearly every front. The plot faithfully retells the original's ghost-mariner revenge story but strips away its atmosphere and tension, replacing them with generic horror beats. The acting is largely flat, with Tom Welling and Maggie Grace delivering uninspired performances that lack the character texture of the original cast. Cinematography is competent but uninspired — the fog effects feel digital and sterile compared to Carpenter's practical, dread-inducing original. Novelty scores very low as this is a straightforward, by-the-numbers remake that adds little to the source material and actually dilutes what made it distinctive. The ending likewise fails to deliver any satisfying payoff or surprise, closing on a whimper rather than a bang. Overall a forgettable horror retread that adds nothing to the genre.