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Tom Welling stars with Selma Blair and Magge Grace in “The Fog,” an eerie horror movie
that scares but won’t become a classic.
Cheesy graphics and premise are
overcome by old-fashioned creepiness
BY CHRISTY LEMIRE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some movies are so atrocious that
the studios keep critics from seeing
them before opening day, hoping and
praying for one decent weekend at
the box office before being done in by
word of mouth.
“The Fog” didn’t need to be one of
them.
Yes, the fog itself looks pretty
cheesy, as do the zombie-like
mariners who inhabit it in their cen
tury-old quest for revenge.
And the script from Cooper Layne
contains your typical horror-flick
lines that overstate the obvious, like,
“That guy gives me the creeps,” in re
sponse to seeing an obviously creepy
fisherman, and, “Nick, ever since I
came home, horrible things have
been happening. ” These are neces
sary evils of the genre. You need
something to laugh at before you get
scared again.
But director Rupert Wainwright —
whose previous movies include “Stig
mata” starring Patricia Arquette and
“Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em:
The Movie” starring, um, Hammer
— manages to create some genuine
intensity and suspense.
He does the basic horror-movie
stuff right, with lighting and shadows
and things that go bump in the night,
though he’s overly fond of the kind of
loud, false scares intended to make
you jump. And he’s got some actors
people have heard of, instead of a
bunch of generically good-looking
no-names. Well, he’s at least got
three: Tom Welling, Selma Blair and
Maggie Grace (from “Lost”).
Like most remakes, “The Fog” is
pretty unnecessary. John Carpenter’s
original from 1980 is considered a
solid effort from the horror veteran,
though perhaps not a complete clas
sic like his “Halloween.” It featured
the first on-screen pairing of Jamie
Lee Curtis and her mother, Janet
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