The Fog (2005)
The inhabitants of Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon,
are about to unveil a statue honoring the four men (Castle, Wayne, Williams and
Malone) who founded their town in 1871. Nick Castle is one of the descendants
of the men, and owns a fishing charter company, using his vessel, the Seagrass,
for tourism. When his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams returns to the island after
spending six months in New York, a bizarre series of events begin to occur,
including several gruesome deaths and the presence of a mysterious fog. When
Elizabeth slips in Nick's boathouse and falls into the sea, she finds an old
journal from 1871, written by Patrick Malone, one of the town's founders. It
tells how a man named Blake bought half the island for use as a leper colony.
While bringing his people to Antonio Island in their clipper ship, the
Elizabeth Dane, Blake is betrayed by Castle, Wayne, Williams and Malone. The
four men locked Blake and his people in the vessel, stole their money and
possessions...
Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Personal Review:
this movie falls prey to the remake curse – great idea, good cast, good
screenwriter, good director and something just goes wrong. Cold dialogue, convoluted story line,
original characters cast as much younger with popular young stars and too much
reliance on CGI. Characters we just don’t come to care about. Yes, to all of that.
One of the things I
liked in the original The Fog was Stevie Wayne terrified for her son but
feeling obligated to stay on the air on her radio station in a lighthouse and
the fog coming to cut her off and more.
Her panic over her son being in danger, reaching out over the air to try
and direct people to anywhere safe and then the terror when the ghosts in the
fog come for her works. Where the hell
do you run to in a lighthouse and how do you fight ghosts that have taken on
physical form?
Same with the
attack on and in the church – the desperate attempt to keep the physical ghosts
out while Kathy Williams (Janet Leigh) and Father Malone (Hal Holbrook) look
for answers in an old journal are great and who can forget the….sharp ending?
In the remake the attack is on a museum/library/whatever and I just don’t feel
the panic on trying to keep the dead out and the attacks are total overworked
CGI. The attack and judgement on Malone
are highlights and the ghosts pretty much work in that scene but quickly are
overused. The burning scene with Ken
Welsh does work.
A minor irritant,
how many times can Nick Castle (Tom Welling) say, “We gotta go”?
Director - Rupert Wainwright
Writer - Cooper Layne
Actors: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, Kenneth Welsh, Adrian Hough, Sara Botsford, Cole Heppell
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| The Elizabeth Dane |
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| Nick Castle - Tom Welling |
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| Elizabeth Williams (Maggie Grace) & Nick |
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| Stevie Wayne (Selma Blair) |
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| Blake - Rade Serbedzija |
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| Elizabeth |
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| Machen - R. Nelson Brown |
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| Stevie - radio station in a lighthouse |
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| Spooner - DeRay Davis |
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| Nick & Elizabeth |
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| Sean Castle (Matthew Currie Holmes) & Elizabeth |
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| Father Malone (Adrian Hough) & Elizabeth |
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| "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting" Elizabeth & Malone |
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| Dan (Jonathon Young) |
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| Dan's end |
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| Elizabeth, Andy Wayne (Cole Heppell) & Nick |
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| Elizabeth, Nick, Andy, Stevie |
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Elizabeth, Kathy Williams (Sara Botsford)
Tom Malone (Ken Welsh) & Nick |
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| Stevie & Andy |
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| Father Malone |
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| Blake & crew |
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| Tom Malone |
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| Elizabeth & Blake |
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| Sonja Bennett, Meghan Heffern (Mandi &Jennifer), MC Holmes & DeRay |
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| Rupert Wainwright & Maggie Grace |
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