To me, this movie is perfection.

the audience applauded

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

There was an original version. Having a remake with cuter cast doesn't mean it's the best choice. Poor acting and not scary at all compared to its original version.

I had read critics reviews that this remake of the 1980 classic John Carpenter scary movie was meant to be terrible, having seen many horror remakes myself that does not surprise, it is very rare that one will be as good or successful as the original. Basically Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, is about to unveil a statue to honour the four men who founded the town in 1871, who founded their town in 1871: Patrick Malone (Christian Bocher), Norman Castle (Charles André), Richard Wayne (Yves Cameron) and David Williams (Douglas H. Arthurs). One of the descendants of the men, Norman Castle, is Nick Castle (Smallville's Tom Welling) owns a fishing charter company, his vessel the Seagrass is used for tourism, his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams (Taken's Maggie Grace) has spent six months in New York and has returned to the island. At a local radio station, host Stevie Wayne (Cruel Intentions' Selma Blair) gets a call from her weatherman that a large fog bank is approaching, this mysterious fog hits and a bizarre series of events begin to occur following it, including several gruesome deaths. After slipping into the sea Elizabeth happens upon an old journal from 1871, written by one of the town founders, Patrick Malone, telling how a man named Captain William Blake (Rade Sherbedgia) bought half of the island for use of a leper colony, on his ship, the Elizabeth Dane, Blake was betrayed by Castle, Wayne, Williams and Malone, he and the people on the ship were locked together, their possessions and money were stolen, and the ship was set on fire, killing everyone aboard. Returning after this flashback to the present day, the evil spirits of Blake and his crew, all turned into nasty looking pirate ghosts, have risen from their watery grave and returned to Antonio Island, seeking revenge on the descendants of the four men. Also starring DeRay Davis as Spooner, Kenneth Welsh as Tom Malone, Adrian Hough as Father Malone, Sara Botsford as Kathy Williams, Cole Heppell as Andy Wayne, Mary Black as Aunt Connie and Jonathon Young as Dan The Weatherman. I don't think there's any point mentioning Welling, Grace, Blair or anyone else, because I'd already seen the original I knew what to expect, the mystery element doesn't work, the special effects are only mildly good, the soundtrack is mixed, the only bit that got my attention was a woman being hit by the fog, melting and only her skeleton remaining, and the zombie-like marine invaders are pointless, this is definitely another fail at a remake, a rubbish horror film. Poor!

OK, I don't usually write bad reviews but this movie is dreadful. The casting was awful, most of the acting was horrible and the story was filled with so many holes it is unbelievable that it made it to the theaters.They cast a comedian who can't act serious as the sidekick in a horror movie? There are shots of the girls who have their shirts pulled up on one side while doing the dishes just to show their underwear? The 2 main stars find 3 dead bodies on the boat so they split up and the girl hears a clank downstairs so she goes down there by herself right after finding 3 MURDERED bodies! The cop asks the mayor if he should arrest a murder suspect!!?? For some reason the 3 murders were filled on a personal camera on the boat but the cops don't take it into evidence, they just leave it on the boat...they don't even look at it!!I could go on and on. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. PLEASE.

No remake is as good as the Original movie and I agree with people who believe this too. I liked Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis in the original movie and I think the original was more scary than the remake. When I saw the original version I had nightmares for weeks. I mean sure it did have a few good moments in it but nothing spectacular happened like in the original version. I mean the original keep me on the edge of my seat and gave me goose bumps on my goose bumps, but this version was a total flop to me and that they should've never did a remake of it. When a movie is made, they should never do a remake of it because fans are going to be disappointed and want their money back because the movie didn't live up to their expectations and scare them or whatever, depending on the movie.