The Fog (2005)

Movie
German title	The Fog - fog of horror
Original title	The fog
Country of production	USA / Canada
original language	English
Publishing year	2005
length	102 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 JMK 12
Rod
Director	Rupert Wainwright
script	Cooper Layne
production	John Carpenter , Debra Hill
music	Graeme Revell
camera	Nathan Hope
cut	Dennis Virkler
occupation
Tom Welling : Nick Castle Maggie Grace : Elizabeth Williams Selma Blair : Stevie Wayne DeRay Davis : Spooner Kenneth Welsh : Tom Malone Adrian Hough : Father Malone Rade Šerbedžija : Blake Jonathon Young : Dan

The Fog is a 2005 horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright . It is in The Fog - The Fog is a remake of the eponymous film of 1980 by John Carpenter .

action

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of Antonio Bay , a strange, unnatural mist spreads from the sea over the island city. It turns out that in the fog are the ghosts of murdered sailors who want to take revenge for the atrocities committed on them.

The ghosts kill several residents of the place. The couple Nick and Elizabeth, Nick's buddy Spooner and radio presenter Stevie are fighting for survival. Elizabeth in particular seems to have a special connection with the ghosts, as she has been plagued by nightmares for some time in which she sees people burning and drowning. Elizabeth and her friends soon learn the gruesome truth: A hundred years ago, seamen with leprosy who sought shelter in Antonio Bay were betrayed, murdered and robbed by city leaders. Now the spirits of the murdered want to take revenge on the descendants of the founding fathers, who also include Nick, Elizabeth and Stevie.

In the end, all of the offspring except Nick, Stevie and their son are killed. Spooner, whose ancestors came from Chicago, also survived. Elizabeth, who seems to be a kind of reincarnation of the wife of Blake, the leader of the then murdered lepers, disappears along with the ghosts who have now found their peace.

background

• Julia Stiles was originally supposed to play the role of Elizabeth, but had to cancel at short notice. That's how Maggie Grace got the role. For this reason, some of Elizabeth's traits have been rewritten, including: a. she was made younger and more innocent than in the original version.
• Before Tom Welling got the role of Nick, numerous other actors were in discussion, including a. Matthew Fox and Benjamin McKenzie .

Locations

The film was shot on an island on the Oregon coast. Other locations were coastal areas in Canada and the area around Cowichan Bay, British Columbia . Most of the beach scenes were made in Tofino , the scenes in the small town of Antonio Bay in Fort Langley , both also belonging to British Columbia.

Reviews

"Uninspired remake of John Carpenter's The Fog (1979), which overdraws illogical plot elements with striking shock effects."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The Fog - The Fog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Fog - The Fog at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• The Fog - Fog of Horror at Metacritic (English)
• The Fog in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for The Fog - Fog of Horror . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 581 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for The Fog . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ The Fog. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .