Monday 7 May 2012

The Fog

2005 Remake of the film of the same name made in 1980, directed by John Carpenter.

Well, there's not much positive to say about this film. I always try to find something good to say about anything I watch or see or read or hear. But I honestly can't think of anything for this film, other than it ends.

Maggie Grace (Shannon from Lost) returns back to her hometown island and rekindles her love with Tom Welling (Superman in Smallville, yet to see). He runs a fishing company where he goes out to the sea on his boat with people for them to catch fish. The night Elizabeth (Grace) returns and meets up with Nick Castle (Welling) his boat is taken out for the night by his cousin and his friend. They have a small party with two girls on board but the boat is then covered with fog, which then seems to take down the two girls and sends a knife into Sean's eye (cousin of Nick Castle). Spooner (Nick Castle's friend who also works on the boat) sees an old ship sail past through the fog, and then locks himself in the freezer so the fog can't get him. Really.

After find the boat out at sea, Nick and Elizabeth take a video recorder showing the party and that Spooner didn't hurt the two girls on board (there bodies had been found in fishing nets). Nick then goes with Spooner to the hospital, while Elizabeth waits in a boat house. After noticing the name of one of the town's founding father's on a plaque declaringthe boat house was where he used to live, Elizabeth decides to take a closer look but slips on a plank of wood and falls into the water below the boat house, dropping the video camera. Which was a shame. She then struggles and wrestles with netting and seaweed, pulls herself up on a wall, which then starts to crumble forming a small hole, in which she finds an old diary, one from one of the founding fathers! The one who used to live there! Who is related to the local priest!

Elizabeth mentioned she'd been having dreams of drownong and being scared and what not. She takes the diary to the pissed priest, who reads a couple of pages and dismisses her. Her and Nick then suddenly work out in a bar from looking at old photos of the town that something happened between 1869 and 1871 because the town had become much more advanced.

The fog comes back to cause terror and fisgures appear in the shadows. The town had just bought a statue of the 4 founding fathers and just as they were being unvieled, a power cut happens. Nick, Elizabeth, the priest, a dj and her son, Elizabeth's mum and the town mayor all take shelter in the library. It is then revealed that the founding fathers had been approached by a man named Blake who offered to buy half the island and use it for a leper colony, and he too suffered from leporacy. The founding fathers, all relations to those present in the library, double crossed the lepers, instead stealing the money and their possessions, and locking them into their ship and setting it on fire. One of the victims had been Blake's wife, who was also called Elizabeth and looked exactly like Elizabeth in the present day.

The film ends when after a few more people are killed by the fog, Blake appears in the fog and sees Elizabeth. In his fog form, he kisses Elizabeth. Yes, Elizabeth actually kisses fog in the shape of a man. She then turns to fog and is dressed like the dreams she's been having.

All in all, this film is dreadful.There's also a pointless side story involving a pocketwatch and hair brush that carry the same markings wahich seem to be what summoned the fog on the island. There's also a DJ that seems to run a radio station on her own all day long on the air that Nick is alluded to have had a relationship with while Elizabeth has been away. It would be best if this film just went away and was never watched by anyone ever again. Ever.