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. The result is a soulless horror that forgets what made Carpenter's 1980 classic a staple: slow-burn terror, not cheap scares.