10 Films That Won't Change Your Life

10. The Fog

This reboot purports to be “From the makers of Halloween”, which is a flat-out lie – the director is Rupert Wainwright, who made the video for MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This. John Carpenter and Debra Hill are credited as producers, but it’s safe to assume neither had much control over the finished product (Hill died seven months before the film’s release).

Did Carpenter sit down with the producers, listen to their ideas and say, “Go ahead – make me rich”? The end result suggests he did because The Fog is an exploitation movie for the modern era: a cheap rip-off backed by a major studio (Sony) with a demographic-friendly rating, pretty stars from a popular TV show and absolutely nothing at its core.

It’s a machine designed to score big on its opening weekend, making fortunes for its backers despite vanishing from the top ten after three weeks, sunk by negative reviews and poor word of mouth. You can only hope that Carpenter didn’t ask for ten percent of the net.