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Your Stupid Minds reviews SCARY MOVIES throughout October, so cover your eyes and prepare yourself for the spookiest jump scares and bloodless murders that the MPAA will allow at this particular rating threshhold. It\\u2019s Rupert Wainwright\\u2019s dull remake of John Carpenter\\u2019s somewhat\\xa0flawed The Fog, but instead of early 80s suspense it\\u2019s a mid-2000s Trajan-fonted teen slasher!

Nick Castle (Smallville\\u2019s Tom Welling) is a boat guy on the small Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon. He takes tourists on his boat with his first mate Spooner (DeRay Davis) when the\\xa0anchor snags on something\\u2026 something GHOSTLY! Meanwhile Nick\\u2019s girlfriend Elizabeth (a non-kidnapped Maggie Grace) returns to the island, unaware of Nick\\u2019s affair with the sultry local DJ Stevie (Selma Blair). But all of this relationship drama is largely moot because ghost pirates show up.

2005\\u2019s The Fog splits the difference between Carpenter\\u2019s supernatural giallo influences and adds high-tension gore-less slasher suspense throughout. As a result the original plot makes little sense, such as when Elizabeth breezes through an entire 19th century journal as they outpace the fog in Nick\\u2019s truck. And based on the intentions of the ghostly beings inside the fog, many of the murders leading up to the denouement make little sense.