10 Most Disappointing Movie Reboots Since 2000
3. The Fog
It’s difficult to see why audiences were so appalled by the Ghostbusters remake when a decade earlier Sony’s executives were responsible for a far more soulless and unnecessary remake.
In 2005, they sat down and said to each other: “Remember that John Carpenter film about the haunted fishing village? Here’s the remake: it’s Clark Kent and his African-American sidekick versus the ghosts from Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. With a wimp rock soundtrack. From the director of MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This video!”
Most of The Fog’s cast either weren’t born or were still in diapers when Carpenter’s film came out, but hopefully they caught it on television. Hopefully someone did, although there’s not much evidence of that in the finished film. Antonio Bay has become Spooky Island, where the adults are corrupt and kids know best, so it’s a shame they don’t drive around in a van solving mysteries.