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"If everybody else is making remakes and they want to pay me money to make a remake of an old movie of mine, why not?" Those are the words of horror maestro John Carpenter speaking to IGN in 2005. At the time, we were still several months away from the release of "The Fog," a remake of his simple yet very effective 1980 ghost story .

Carpenter's original film was a decent hit and, though it paled in comparison to the monster that was "Halloween" from two years earlier, it remains a favorite within the filmmaker's catalog. In 2005, Sony Pictures set about remaking the movie with a bigger budget and a trendy cast

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