THE FOG (1980)

5Title card of the 1980 film co-written, directed and scored by John Carpenter.

Like how a leftwinger would readily protest against pro-abortion laws, this fogey right here possesses repugnancy toward remaking old classics. In most cases, he feels, these so-called replicas are far paler comparisons to the originals.
John Carpenter's relatively minor horror piece THE FOG, starring then-reigning Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis, was a success in its own right. In fact, when I first saw that freaky Blake character as a child, it nearly scared the bejeebers out of me. So why was there a need for a subpar 2005 update?