This is one of those cases where I know I need to begin by saying, “No, it’s not as good as the original,” but it seems so long since I saw the original now, and it was definitely one of those cases where the goodness really crept up on me unawares, so I have no idea why exactly this doesn’t quite match the first: I just know it doesn’t. Let’s blame people like Smallville’s Superman – basically, people who are far too young and pretty (in a so-conventional-it’s-practically-fugly way) to even hope to believe would be living in a place like this doing the work they’re pretending to do.

Curmudgeonly cynicism aside, I’ve gotta say, this movie does pass the scares test. It has one massive scare (the grandma doing the dishes) that is genuinely so great it makes the 90 minutes worth sitting through. There are a couple of other nice (wrong word) visuals too, like the slivers of glass passing through the priest at the end. Even the fog itself, though not as ingenius as it was in the first, is still a lot better than I expected. I doubt I’ll be watching it again … but as more recent horror movies go, it’s not too bad at all.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm in 3 hearts, Movie Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.