Yeah definitely. I will say that This version of the fog, like the original actually did have a plot unlike many modern "horror" films. Despite it's fantasyesque ending, there was a web of reasoning behind the events which follows the tradition of good horror movies like the changling. Many modern films are just pointless slasher flicks with no rhyme or reason like the jeepers creepers, house of the dead and House of 1000 corpses. I prefer more sophisticated horror and even the remake of the fog falls into the sophisticated category.
Don't be so disappointed..encaf1October 26 2005, 13:57:10 UTC
... after all, this version of The Fog is *not* a Carpenter movie at all, but rather was directed by Rupert Wainwright (according to IMDB), whose other credits include "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie" (what an inspired amount of title-age there!) and other Hammer videos..
Of course, the TV series Wolf Lake (never really saw it) and the movie Stigmata are also on his very short filmography, so I guess it's hit or miss..
Re: Don't be so disappointed..solidshadowOctober 26 2005, 14:15:16 UTC
Carpenter was closely involved with the project and I saw an interview with him on the set (in a director's chair) a few months ago. A couple of online sources I had (one I can remember was Yahoo movies) named Rupert Wainwright, Jon Carpenter and Debra Hill as all co-directors in the movie. I suspect in the end the film makers guild wanted only one to be billed as the one and only director as they similarly demanded in Sin City.
I wouldn't have bothered to see the film if I hadn't seen the interview with JC as he yelled action next to a camera in one of the shots.
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Of course, the TV series Wolf Lake (never really saw it) and the movie Stigmata are also on his very short filmography, so I guess it's hit or miss..
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I wouldn't have bothered to see the film if I hadn't seen the interview with JC as he yelled action next to a camera in one of the shots.
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