Review – The Fog (2005)

Ever see a movie in which a character – a real, historical figure for example – is played by a bad actor who makes a mess of the role? This is like that, only it’s a whole movie pretending to be an earlier production. Some of the effects are bush leagues fun, but overall this is a muddled, messy version of the original. Even the casting is odd, with no big-name stars (at least the first one had Janet Leigh) and Selma Blair playing Stevie Wayne despite the fact that she doesn’t look anywhere near old enough to be the mother of a tween-ager. If Carpenter and Bottin had access to some of the digital effects used in this effort, they could have made a movie good enough to render a remake completely pointless. As it was, there didn’t turn out to be that much point to it anyway. See if desperate