THE FOG (remake)

THE FOG (remake)
By Larra

Thank the Horror Gods for Netflix!

With all of the original films floating around at festivals like Screamfest L.A. and such, why are directors feeling compelled to remake (as well as ruin) good classics? Could it be the fact that our 13 and older teens have more cash nowadays, therefore it’s all about the money? Or is it that with computer-FX they feel that they can ‘enhance’ a classic?

Whatever the case may be, I am sick and tired of watching films that I truly enjoy being raped and mutilated until all of the originality is gone and you are left with some mangled pile of chum (with really bad voice-overs I might add).

So, we’re back in Antonio Bay, an island with a dark history: It seems that the ‘gentlemen’ who founded the island some 100 years ago actually stole it from lepers who, are now back to take their well-deserved revenge. The fog (or should I say smoke) that rolls into town after dark is what brings these leper-ghosts to your door, knocking so loudly that it makes your ears ring--well it would if the sound quality was ‘enhanced’.

Aside from the original story, the re-make seems to focus more on the leper-ghosts and their story of how they were banished and cheated out of their land, which is why I don’t understand why this film wasn’t titled differently, but for the fact that it had a DJ named Stevie (Selma Blair) who runs the local radio station and has a son.

People being thrown, pushed and suctioned through windows as well as angry garbage-disposals sure weren’t something I remember seeing in the original but anyway, I guess that’s Hollywood nowadays, where they change things up just a tad and slip in some young hot Smallville star (Tom Welling plays Nick Castle) in hopes of the teenage bum-rush to the box office.

I’m gonna go watch COLD BLOOD again just to get THE FOG outta my head…..