Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Tom WellingNick Castle
- Maggie GraceElizabeth Williams
- Selma BlairStevie Wayne
- DeRay DavisSpooner
- Kenneth WelshTom Malone
- Adrian HoughFather Robert Malone
- Sara BotsfordKathy Williams
- Cole HeppellAndy Wayne
- Mary BlackAunt Connie
- Jonathon YoungDan The Weatherman
Recommendations
- 50
Boston Globe
This new Fog floats in on the fumes of the 1980 John Carpenter original, but the surprise is that it's arguably better. - 50
The A.V. Club
It's virtually indiscernible from any other contemporary horror film except for, well, the fog. - 40
The New York Times
Mildly scary here and there. It does not play by all the horror movie rules (e.g., the black guy always dies first). And the cast is good-looking. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Director Rupert Wainwright fails to bring any style to the material, not producing a fraction of the suspense or wit generated by Carpenter in the original even while working with a far lesser budget. - 40
Variety
Unfortunately, interest lags between the grisly deaths, and, worse, none of the characters generates rooting interest. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
If the characters were more interesting, the long, long buildup to their night of ghostly reckoning might be suspenseful rather than tedious. - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Most of The Fog will seem drearily perfunctory even to those viewers who don't know Carpenter's version, which itself emulated the elegant gloom of Val Lewton's horror pics of the 1940s. - 25
New York Daily News
The fog also does something genuinely eerie: It causes everyone in the cast to deliver dreadful performances and display inappropriate reactions when their friends are drowned, burned, stabbed or thrown into glass display cases.
