Redundant and unnecessary.

Great Film overall

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

There was an original version. Having a remake with cuter cast doesn't mean it's the best choice. Poor acting and not scary at all compared to its original version.

I had read critics reviews that this remake of the 1980 classic John Carpenter scary movie was meant to be terrible, having seen many horror remakes myself that does not surprise, it is very rare that one will be as good or successful as the original. Basically Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, is about to unveil a statue to honour the four men who founded the town in 1871, who founded their town in 1871: Patrick Malone (Christian Bocher), Norman Castle (Charles André), Richard Wayne (Yves Cameron) and David Williams (Douglas H. Arthurs). One of the descendants of the men, Norman Castle, is Nick Castle (Smallville's Tom Welling) owns a fishing charter company, his vessel the Seagrass is used for tourism, his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams (Taken's Maggie Grace) has spent six months in New York and has returned to the island. At a local radio station, host Stevie Wayne (Cruel Intentions' Selma Blair) gets a call from her weatherman that a large fog bank is approaching, this mysterious fog hits and a bizarre series of events begin to occur following it, including several gruesome deaths. After slipping into the sea Elizabeth happens upon an old journal from 1871, written by one of the town founders, Patrick Malone, telling how a man named Captain William Blake (Rade Sherbedgia) bought half of the island for use of a leper colony, on his ship, the Elizabeth Dane, Blake was betrayed by Castle, Wayne, Williams and Malone, he and the people on the ship were locked together, their possessions and money were stolen, and the ship was set on fire, killing everyone aboard. Returning after this flashback to the present day, the evil spirits of Blake and his crew, all turned into nasty looking pirate ghosts, have risen from their watery grave and returned to Antonio Island, seeking revenge on the descendants of the four men. Also starring DeRay Davis as Spooner, Kenneth Welsh as Tom Malone, Adrian Hough as Father Malone, Sara Botsford as Kathy Williams, Cole Heppell as Andy Wayne, Mary Black as Aunt Connie and Jonathon Young as Dan The Weatherman. I don't think there's any point mentioning Welling, Grace, Blair or anyone else, because I'd already seen the original I knew what to expect, the mystery element doesn't work, the special effects are only mildly good, the soundtrack is mixed, the only bit that got my attention was a woman being hit by the fog, melting and only her skeleton remaining, and the zombie-like marine invaders are pointless, this is definitely another fail at a remake, a rubbish horror film. Poor!

There is nothing scary about this cheap movie full of rip-off clichés. They are so desperate to get your attention that they even try to pander to racist viewers by blaming Leprosy disease on Chinese people. The acting is awful and painful to watch. The atmosphere is a complete joke. Not scary at all.The start of the movie is too rushed. They try to go into the fog thing too early. Then, it's foggy everywhere and they just throw in one stupid thing after the other. It doesn't work. It really shows Rupert Wainwright's lack of talent and originality. The only thing he does is copy and rip-off existing concepts. All supposedly action scenes are executed horribly. I started to get fed up with this movie really quickly.Stephen King's The Mist is the exact opposite of this terrible movie. Go watch that instead. Don't waste your time watching this garbage.

After a series of strange encounters, a small sea-town comes to believe the fulfillment of a deadly curse is being brought upon by a series of malicious ghosts and try to stop it before it's too late.Quite frankly, this is a highly underrated effort that's one of the more enjoyable remakes among this current crop. One of the only true flaws to this is the lower rating which does harm this one. The kills here really lack any sort of impact or brutality with the lack of blood throughout here, and the other attacks have a slightly less intense bite to them than they otherwise would with a darker tone to this. There's also the act that this one tends to overplay its scenes far longer than they're worth, which is slightly odd in that it makes for overlong and overly dramatic scare scenes that overstay their welcome at times and instead drains some of their impact. Still, there's a lot to like here in the fact that the build-up in here is incredibly well-done with this one featuring the early visions of the ships' fate along with the items washed ashore both creating a rather fine and exciting set-up as well as the burgeoning mystery they lead to surrounding the sudden appearance of the journal explaining everything that finally puts everything together. That helps makes scenes like the ambush or sea or the supernatural activities in the radio station to seem all the more enjoyable as well as being highly suspenseful by milking the idea of the fog being a malevolent entity in this one. The scenes of it moving through town, surrounding buildings and weaving along the hallways makes for a thoroughly chilling scenario about what's trapped in the fog. When it finally pays that off in the final half causes this to be all the more enjoyable and entertaining by making for a rather chilling connection with the back-story given already in here which is where this one gets the most out of its storyline. That also helps to make for a really fine finale by really getting the good attacks and really creepy scenarios in here that really make for a high-note ending here which really sells this one. The last part to like here is the rather inspired amount of suspense in here, from the attack on the lighthouse worker and the fog chasing the family through the house to even shorter scenes with the trapped car underwater, the fake-drowning in the outhouse or the final assault in the library which makes for some really good times in here. While they may seem a little like a cop-out, these make it enjoyable enough.Rated PG-13: Violence, some Language and shadowy Nudity.