That said, this was a disappointment. I saw a movie list somewhere where the guy said The Fog wasn't too bad, which was the reason I decided to rent it. I even enjoyed some of it. Little wisps of creativity and intrigue were scattered about like the last, withered hairs on a nearly-bald head.

In an effort to end this on a positive note, I'll start off with the bad. The movie was cliched. It had the token the-bad-guys-are-coming-and-the-man-must-find-the-helpless-kid scene, the banal "oh no, how could the tire get stuck in the mud at a time like this?!?" scene, and the typical and mind-numbingly misplaced dichotomy of some people being too stupid not to answer the door when a sinister figure is knocking at it late at night, and the others seeming to instantly realize exactly what is going on for no apparent reason at all. Besides, although the actual fog itself was decent, the violence was so poorly faked that i couldn't help laughing my way through it - and although I love horror, I'm scared easily by even the lamest stunts.

The good parts, then? Well, I kinda liked a scene where a piece of driftwood bearing part of the name of the wrecked ship goes from being dry to bleeding salt water and then igniting on fire, the word changing from "...Dane" to "...Must Die." Yeah, that may well have been done before, too, time and time again, but it wasn't bad. Also, I liked the actual idea behind why the men invaded the mainland, though so as not to spoil it I won't go into that here.

Plot quality was not the lacking portion of this movie, though it wasn't exceedingly imaginative or original. Plot development, character development, and the entire script itself just outright sucked. I mean SUCKED. If you were running away from an unknown evil whilst on top of a roof, would you still wear your high-heeled shoes? If you were an old, weak woman, and you were afraid of what was outside the door and wanted to keep a young boy safe, would you OPEN the door? If you were in a room with a newly-retrieved corpse in a coroner's office, would you blatantly stare at the wall away from the body under the sheet, not ever glancing back? And if you were a fierce and unknown force who had returned from death and could transport a small army by fog, would you knock on people's doors with your stupid scythe?!?

OK, if you're an absolute horror fanatic, I guess you could do worse than this one. It blew, but there are worse movies out there. If you're one of those people who enjoys a bad horror movie for a good laugh, I still suggest you look elsewhere. There are funnier bad horror movies than this one. No, this is in the nether-region where it was too good to be bad and way, way, way too bad to even remember what good looked like 'cuz it never brought a map and it got really lost trying to get there.