The Fog

Rupert Wainwright's ("Stigmata") remake of John Carpenter's superior 1980 film is a childish exercise in how not to make a scary horror movie. A proliferation of shattering-glass sequences punctuates an anemic story about a group of seamen ghosts that return to a coastal town 100-years later to reap vengeance on a group of locals. Tom Welling ("Smallville") does his best James Marsden impersonation, and Selma Blair shows that she really needs to take more acting classes. "The Fog" is a tedious and disappointing movie.
Rated PG-13, 100 mins. (D+)