"The Avengers" with Uma Thurman a few years back is actually a reboot, so as the worst reboot made it leaves worst remake title to be filled by this utter dreck. Carpenter's 1980 original was economical, atmospheric and well-acted for the most part. The update evidently was made by gathering the cast beside a road and driving by with a camera hung out a car window until enough film was shot to destroy an hour and a half of viewers' time in a way almost criminally pointless. Miss Grace is awfully nice to look at but simply cannot act. The rest of the cast appear to be playing their characters as industrial soot - blank gray, irritatingly smudgy and immaterial to point of blowing away with a puff of wind. An actor named DeRay Davis was killed off and brought back to life simply because he's the only person on screen showing any vital signs. Early on, he hides in a freezer to escape (The Fog doesn't like frozen yogurt and Mexican TV dinners). And he lives! We're to believe that for hours he's a fishstick, thaws out awhile in a hospital bed and - boom! - it's comedy at the Apollo time. Beat that.
Review of The Fog
