Lost in The Fog

The Fog is a dreary and redundant remake of John Carpenter's chilling, low-budget horror flick from 1980, about the ghosts of drowned seamen avenging themselves on the descendants of wreckers who lured them to their death.

This remake aimed at very dumb teenagers lowers the age of the main characters by around ten years, and their IQ by maybe 100.

It's impossible to empathise with these people, since not one of them has anything resembling a personality. It's incompetently acted by leads who look as though they would be much more at ease modelling clothes.

Cooper Layne's flaccid screenplay is even worse than the abysmal one he wrote for The Core. Rupert Wainwright's pedestrian direction is even more laughably inept than his work on the anti-Catholic horror film Stigmata.

Both should be discouraged from further film-making. They fail to create any tension, let alone shocks; and the only scary aspect is that someone in Hollywood gave this project the green light. The Fog should be mist.

The Fog
Cert: cert15