The Fog (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
by Rupert Wainwright
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Actor: DeRay Davis, Kenneth Welsh, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, Tom WellingDirector: Rupert Wainwright
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Nathan Hope
Editor: Dennis Virkler
Producer: Derek Dauchy
Producer: Todd Garner
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
Published: 2006-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Fog (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Another fantastically made horror remake
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, I dont understand why so many people are being so hostle towards this film and the people who like it. Everyone is allowed to have their own opinions. If someone liked this movie, let them, its ok! You are allowed to like it and you are allowed to hate it. Movies are made to entertain and if you were entertained by this, great! If not well, I'm sure there are other films that many other people hate but you like. Not everyone has to have the same thoughts about a film. Im still amazes at some of the *beep* that I read on these boards, the lack of courtesy is mind numbing.
Lately I have noticed that far too many Amazon reviewers are just getting extremely harsh on films!! Now that either means they are far too critical or I am becoming far too soft, although I do admit I tend to like certain films or style of films more than others and horror happens to be one of those genres. I hadn't seen the original 1980 John Carpenter's The Fog until very recently and I was pleasantly surprised. It was low budget and had Carpenter's brilliant horror style to it. I anxiously awaited to see this remake with one of my favorite TV Actors in the lead role (Tom Welling.) I wasn't disappointed in the least. After last year's incredible Amityville Horror remake and now The Fog which is at least as good as the original. After all not a whole bunch has changed. Remarkably director Rupert Wainwright, who has mostly music videos to his credit, kept this remake very much on par with it's original. There were scenes that were almost lifted straight from the original...hey if it ain't broke, don't fix it, I like that theory!!!
Tom Welling holds his own in his first leading non-teen role as Nick Castle, a charter boat Captain who's lost love shows up out of nowhere and draws him into the mystery surrounding their small town and island. If he continues on this path he just might be able to leave behind his teen image and his "Clark Kent" and break into films which I think would be awesome. He's tough and macho and pulls off the protector role quite well. Fellow TV Alumn Maggie Grace from "Lost" takes on the lead female role as Elizabeth who returns to their small town with nightmares about a scary past. She does a stellar job in the scream queen role that Jamie Lee Curtis originated. However in this remake her character is far more utilized than Curtis' ever was. Wainwright chose to make Elizabeth the central female character as opposed to Stevie Wayne who was more the central lead in the original. Selma Blair takes the role of radio DJ Stevie Wayne and she doesn't quite have the intensity necessary for the role. Perhaps after seeing the original I expected more from her character but her performance seemed very dry and rather emotionless. Her character was almost pointless and she was so vital to the original story. Welling and Grace have excellent chemistry together, hot in fact, would love to see them team up again.
The film delivers some awesome scares and is still filmed in a gritty dark, very claustrophobic setting so it holds what the original did for movie goers. The remake does move at a little faster pace, it seems to have left behind the build up that the original had which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it. Faster pace, but perhaps leaves something behind in the plot. At times it feels like it's moving at breakneck speed and you're missing something, and it seems like the characters are moving from location to location without any explanation as to where they are which can leave you a little confused. The Ghost Story aspect of it has been changed slightly but it's still there and it's still all about vengeance. Everyone seems to find out about the killer fog, and the mystery behind it far too quickly. There is never much back story to anything. Nonetheless the chills and gore the film delivers make up for that. There are lots of times you'll jump out of your seat and although it's not quite as gory as the original it holds it's own for a PG-13 rated movie!! I think people are being far too harsh on this film, I think it's a decent scary, ghost story, slasher flick with good characters and a great setting. See this and then see Amityville Horror (remake) this Halloween and you'll be pleasantly scared crazy!!
Summary of The Fog (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
A THICK FOG ENSHROUDS A COASTAL TOWN. THE FOG IS REMINISCENT OF ONE 100 YEARS EARLIER THAT WRECKED A SHIP & DROWNED THE SEAMENABOARD. SURE ENOUGH, THE SAILORS ARE BACK & OUT TO KILL WHOMEVER THEY FIND.Similar DVD Movies
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