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100 MINUTES Like the rotting, leprous corpses that return to a quaint Pacific Northwest Island to exact revenge, Rupert Wainwright’s film is a boomerang, a remake of John Carpenter’s 1980 follow-up to Halloween. Sure, the upgrades in FX help, but the acting is stilted and the direction clunky — not that the original was any masterpiece. Selma Blair takes on the Adrienne Barbeau role (revealing her buxom bum versus Barbeau's infamous cleavage) of Stevie Wayne, the smooth island DJ who serves as an impromptu emergency dispatcher when all hell breaks loose. A wooden Maggie Grace subs for Jamie Lee Curtis as Elizabeth Williams, the heroine in peril with a very complicated past. And Tom Welling (TV’s Smallville) looks fetching as skipper Nick Castle, who zips around the island trying to save everyone from the rolling miasma. No matter, The Fog’s still just a silly teen scream pop that hasn’t improved with age.
BY TOM MEEK
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