Deborah Woehr

The Fog

The previews looked decent, so I went. What surprised me was that the actress (Maggie Grace) who plays Shannon on Lost has a star role in this film as Elizabeth.

I won’t delve into the plot too much, as it is a very typical ghost story with equally typical horror elements and expendable characters. I will say that Elizabeth is the most intelligent and believable character in the movie. She is the one who unravels the mystery while the others either race around in hysteria, get killed in gruesome fashions, or are “just there.”

The cinematography was very good. I liked how the ghosts looked and moved. In other films (ex. Gothica), the ghost’s movements were choppy. I also liked how they made the fog a living entity, able to seep through the cracks and get the characters. But I didn’t care for the growling.

Fog is silent. Had the special effects people allowed the fog to be quiet, I think it would have kept the people unaware and added more to the terror. As a whole, The Fog is a decent B movie. What made it interesting was the backstory and Elizabeth’s part in it.

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Mark on 16 Oct 2005 at 7:49 am #

Silence can be far more frightening than sound but Hollywood thinks we need to hear everything. Everything, including fog apparently, has to have it’s own theme music or sound.

Lee Pletzers on 16 Oct 2005 at 8:25 am #

Sounds like a fun fun movie.
Is this any relation to Carpenter’s movie, The Fog?

Deborah on 16 Oct 2005 at 8:55 am #

Hollywood did the same thing in Twister, Mark. Although I’ve never experienced a tornado, I’ve heard they howled and made the ground shake, not growl like a hungry animal.

I’ve never seen Carpenter’s movie, Lee, so I can’t compare. Was that one also about ghostly revenge? Yes, this was a fun movie despite my picks and pans.