A young lady named
Elizabeth Williams (Maggie Grace) returns
to her small hometown at Antonio Bay
after a long hiatus from being there.
She realises that she is not as welcome
as she expected she'd be after she meets
up with her parents and some of her
former friends.
She also discovers some violent forces
and a few deaths as well as a thick and
eeerie fog that's creating all of this
and she is responsible for and has a dark
secret which was never revealed to the
locals there.
However, some of the old crazy people
seemed to know about her.
The plot is very
similar to the original one with a new
twist at the end of it.
The film is very well done with creepier
effects and the film is updated too so
even people who enjoy today's horror
films will get a kick out of this one
too.
Good to watch close to Halloween.
The acting is not
bad but I didn't enjoy it as much as the
perfromers from the first one.
Still, the actors (Whom most were
Canadian) did a fine job with their
performance in it .
Lead actor Tom Welling I wasn't
convinced with as he just seemed like a
typical pretty boy with not much of a
character. He was better off in Smallville.
Maggie Grace seems to do fairly well
with her role as a lost traveller
escaping from her past.
Selma Blair was the best by all
means as the single Mom and Radio DJ who
is perfect by doing both in the film.
Child actor Cole Heppell seems
to pull his character off very well as a
curious kid looking for things at the
beach.
There are dead
dogs washed at sea as well as a skeletal
arm.
A corpses eyes are plucked out
A lady's body is blackened and then
crumbles apart.
Rupert
Wainwright was terrific with his
work in this. There is a great prologue
showing some people being buirned alive
at sea etc.
Selma Blair really made her part
believeable and entertaining when she was
being a radio DJ as there's good shots on
her
We have a perfect shot on a fishing boat
in the middle of nowhere when it's nearly
dusk. There's good moments with
supporting actors Matthew Currie
Holmes, Sonja Bennett and Meghen
Heffern dancing on the boat with DeRay
Davis videotaping them as it almost
looks like a believeable bunch of friends
partying.
There's a great look at some deadly
looking fog approaching and rising over
the boat.
There's great reactions on all of them
when they hear banging sounds especially
by Bennett and Heffren.
There's
a good moment with Tom Welling
associating with Maggie Grace
after he sees her in his truck as she
looked good standing behind darkness and
then revealing herself.
There's also a good shot with the truck
driving by a village and some fog slickly
rolls by and the pwer goes out bit by
bit.
There's a real jumping moment when the
two of them talk and it's all still then
suddenly the windows break in the truck.
On the abandoned fishing boat there is a
good shot on Davis in a freezer
with his eyes closed and then they
suddenly open up which is quite
suspenseful looking.
Bit part actress Sherri McLean
really knew how to cry and act devasted
after spotting her dead daughter.
There's a good shot on Grace in
the beach close to dawn with the fog
surrounding her.
We spot a good powerful dialogue between
Grace and Adrian Hough as
Father Malone when he aggressively tells
her that she must get off the island
after spotting a symbol graffiti'd near
his church.
Nice close up shots on Grace's feet
walking on a dock and then slipping
hitting her head. She does well by
struggling trying to get ashore and
really did well by panting after crawling
onto the dock again.
Blair is good after hearing a
strange sound in her studio and tries to
figure it out.
There's a great shot on child actor Cole
Heppell running away from the fog.
Supporting actor Johnathon Young
looked good holding a lantern standing
outside in the fog wondering what is out
there.
We also have a perfect camera shot on
inside of a house with supporting actress
Mary Black staring at the
windows with the fog rising up all of a
sudden.
There's another horrifying shot on Black
doing dishes and a ghostly hand from
the sink grabs her arm.
Of course there's Blair screaming
on the radio mic calling for help to
rescue her son but it looks too overly
done and typically remade from the
original.
A nice shot on Blair in her car
trying to start it up and acts
frusterated and fog surrounding her as
she stares at it.
Kenneth Welsh does a good job by
begging for his life and pleading to the
ghosts that he did nothing wrong.
The music is great composed
by Graeme Revelle as he is a
super talented composer showing some
echoey piano playing but alot different
than from the original movie and worked
in many other films inclduing From
Dusk Till Dawn.
Father
Malone: Get off the Island!
Elizabeth Williams: Why?
Father Malone: Just go!
Captain
Blake: [as Malone is lowering
himself from the Elizabeth Dane, Blake
reaches through a porthole and grabs him]
Blood for blood!
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