The Fog (2005)

The Fog (2005) is a catastrophic misfire that replaces John Carpenter's masterful atmospheric ghost story with cheap CGI and gratuitous jump scares, earning a catastrophic 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. Director Rupert Wainwright's reliance on digital effects—over 60% of the fog is computer-generated—squanders the original's practical, claustrophobic dread. Carpenter himself disowned the project, a rarity for the director. This remake's critical failure is 12% worse than #8 Flatliners, which managed a 16% score, proving that even a terrible film can be outdone in sheer incompetence. The result is a soulless horror that forgets what made Carpenter's 1980 classic a staple: slow-burn terror, not cheap scares.