The Fog

Remaking a mediocre film is a better idea than remaking a good one, but Rupert Wainwright's new take on John Carpenter's THE FOG (1980) — done with the director's blessing — is a soggy ghost story wrapped in an aggressively swirling wall of mist. Antonio Island, Ore., is a picturesque coastal hamlet blessed with glorious views and teeming with small-town eccentrics, busybodies and malcontents, many descended from the town's founding fathers Malone, Williams, Wayne and Castle. But as Mayor Tom Malone (Kenneth Welsh) prepares to unveil a statue in the town square celebrating their courage, integrity and foresight, an unnatural fog bank bears down on the town, shorting ...