10 Movie Remakes That Ripped Off Audiences
1. The Fog (2005)
If soulless horror remakes have a poster child then it must be The Fog, a movie that was written, shot and released in under 11 months. The frantic schedule didn't produce a good (or even worthwhile) film, but it was never meant to because this is an exploitation movie for the multiplex era. Shamelessly trading on John Carpenters name as well as the nostalgia for his 1980 film, The Fog 05 is like an old friend who has been replaced by a pod person.
They have the same name, but every emotion and personality trait has been removed. What remains must have been spat out by a computer: a pair of good-looking actors from popular TV shows go to an island where spooky things happen and all the adults harbour a dark secret. One by one, they're menaced by the ghosts from Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
Then the film stops. Rupert Wainwright, who also directed the music video for MC Hammer's Can't Touch This, has yet to make another movie.