10 Movies That Really Needed A Better Villain
6. The Fog
John Carpenter's The Fog is an impressive production considering the budgetary constraints the filmmaker was working under, if certainly not one of his most celebrated works.
The big problem isn't the film's budget, really, but rather its presentation of the titular villain, which rolls into a Californian coastal town and brings with it a horde of vengeful mariner ghosts who were fatally shipwrecked there 100 years prior.
Though the idea of an ambiguous fog blanketing a town and killing anyone it touches is a neat concept, the goofy inclusion of meat hook-totting spectres transforms the concept from chilly minimalism into unapologetic schlock, no matter how creatively Carpenter tries to film it all.
Roger Ebert perhaps put it best himself when he said, "the movie's made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain."