{"id":3567,"date":"2016-07-04T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2023-12-10T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:19:55","slug":"the-fog-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"The Fog-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Fog-2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Rupert Wainwright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott\u2019s Review #444<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70038804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3568\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70038804-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70038804\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70038804-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70038804.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed July 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fog is a 2005 remake of the original The Fog from 1980 and it is overall not very good. It sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Why original creators John Carpenter and Debra Hill had anything to do with it is completely beyond me unless they needed some fast cash. It is so modernized that it loses the mystique that the original had.<\/p>\n<p>The credit that\u00a0it does deserve is for a few good scares and keeping with the same characters as the original had. Otherwise, it\u00a0is largely\u00a0a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, the ending is completely changed from the original and contains some ridiculous, silly fantasy elements that simply do not work at all.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting actress in the television series Lost (2004-2010), Maggie Grace, attempting to embark on a film career, is wooden and one-dimensional.<\/p>\n<p>There is no good acting in the entire movie. Not that I expect great acting in a horror film, but it just adds to the mess of storytelling and writing.<\/p>\n<p>A big fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fog-2005 Director Rupert Wainwright Starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace Scott\u2019s Review #444 Reviewed July 4, 2016 Grade: D The Fog is a 2005 remake of the original The Fog from 1980 and it is overall not very good. It sucks. Why original creators John Carpenter and Debra Hill had anything to do with it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fog-2005<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,13,2449,368,2189],"tags":[299,248,2450,369,2192],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-movie-reviews","category-horror-films","category-john-carpenter","category-worst-rated-films","category-selma-blair","tag-2005-movie-reviews","tag-horror-films","tag-john-carpenter","tag-worst-rated-films","tag-selma-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19602,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/19602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}