The Mist

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The Mist

Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, Nathan Gamble, Alexa Davalos, William Sadler, Chris Owen, Toby Jones, Laurie Holden, Sam Witwer

After a brutal thunderstorm pounds a small town, the residents discover a malevolent mist hangs over their homes, killing anyone who remains outside. Trapped in a grocery store, a band of survivors mu...( read more  read more... )st make a stand against the deadly fog.

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  • garyX
    October 6, 2009
    garyX
    A strange mist descends over a small town and a motley band of its inhabitants seek refuge in the local supermarket. Based on a *sigh* Stephen King novella (is it that time of year again?) The Mist was written for the screen and directed by Frank "The Shawshank Redemption" Darabo...( read more)nt, and his skillful eye and feel for narrative pacing means that The Mist has a sense of quality missing from many King adaptations. Some of the sequences have just the right amount of tension and some of the encounters with the creatures are genuinely creepy and suspenseful in a way that reminded me of John Carpenter in his hay day. But once again, the Achilles hell is Stephen bloody King himself. The story is shit. The talents of the director and a decent if slightly uninspired set of performances are the only things that obscure the fact. All the ideas are rehashes of familiar old cliches and you can never escape the fact that the creatures are nothing more than badly designed computer generated cartoons. I can enjoy a daft creature feature as long as it has a sense of humour, but King's dour self importance once again means that the film takes itself painfully seriously despite the clearly ludicrous premise. And as far as the famous ending goes, I would also have to point out that if horror is an allegory or has an intelligent sub-text then a comment about futility can be very powerful (as we see in Romero's films) but when its done purely for shock value it is nothing short of empty and meaningless. Kudos to the technical side of things, but Stephen King is nothing but a hack churning out second hand junk and this is yet more proof of the fact.
  • SirPant
    October 5, 2009
    SirPant
    A refreshingly good horror film! Stephen King films are always hit and miss but with Frank Darabont directing, I'm not sure why I even doubted it! There is good character development, realism and social commentary that are typical of King's novels but not so much in horror films....( read more) That is where the real strength of this films lies. If you'd have told me the storyline before I watched, I probably wouldn't have bothered but it actually works really well and as for that ending, it's beautifully bleak and wonderfully horrific, just how horror films should end!
  • mjgildea
    September 15, 2009
    mjgildea
    The Mist looked like it could easily have turned into a bad rehash of The Fog but thankfully didn't. Instead The Mist opted to become the first movie in 8 years to actually scare me and put me on edge. It was set up well, the acting was pretty good (as was the cast) and the monst...( read more)ers were pretty damned frightening. A good portion of this movie creeped me out beyond belief and sub-sequentially pushed my anxiety level through the roof the whole time. The explanation for the creatures was pretty cool and you hate tyrannical Jesus freaks, have I got the movie for you! The ending, as realistic and as heartbreaking as it was kind of kept me from totally loving The Mist but it will stick with me. Ah well, getting to see Marcia Gay Harden's character's final scene had to come at some price, I guess.
  • markymarkslunggnome
    August 2, 2009
    markymarkslunggnome
    Not as good as dreamcatcher. Creatures are fun. Characters are corny. Loved the ending! Oh no, it's ...The Mist!!!
  • stopitgoaway
    July 27, 2009
    stopitgoaway
    #9: The Mist
    Tragically unappreciated on both sides of the pond, Frank Darabont?s film perfectly captures the B-movie atmosphere of the original Stephen King novella, which pits a group of supermarket shoppers against a mysterious fog teeming with tentacle bug monsters from Dimen...( read more)sion X. Marcia Gay Harden steals the show as a looneytunes evangelist with human sacrifice on her mind, and the Twilight Zone-style twist ending is breathtakingly cruel.

    Pop quiz. Tell me, what do you consider to be the most successful Stephen King adaptation, made for film or television? "Carrie"? "The Dead Zone"? "Salem's Lot"? "Stand By Me"? No! Not "Maximum Overdrive"!! (And if that is your choice, may God forgive you, because I won't.)

    All of the above, except "Maximium Overdrive" of course, are great pieces of work. But my choice as the benchmark Stephen King adaptation would probably be "The Shawshank Redemption", directed by Frank Darabont.

    Stephen King has been very good for Frank Darabont. "The Shawshank Redemption" has become a modern classic and "The Green Mile" was nearly as good. I am glad to say that "The Mist" is nearly as good again.

    "The Mist" is a great film, perfectly structured, but a film that requires patience. It is a film of the slow build and of a gradual getting to know the characters, their obsessions, their fears and prejudices. It was nice to see a King horror film where his great talent of touching on the reality of a small town, has been exploited. It makes it all the more horrific when all hell does break loose, because the people who are getting hurt are ones that you know.

    Thomas Jane is faintly wooden. Personally I would not have cast him, but all of the other performances are top notch. Marcia Gay Harden's possibly psychotic, fundamental Christian, Toby Jones' short, pudgy, perfectly ordinary hero, Andre Braugher's uptight, big city lawyer and William Sadler's scared, malleable blue collar worker. All excellent.

    "The Mist" is not "The Shawshank Redemption" in one crucial way. Whereas "The Shawshank Redemption" was about hope and life, "The Mist" is about hopelessness and death. One thing that they have in common is an astonishing ending. The ending of "The Mist" is wonderful, horrific, twisted and shocking. Not anything that I saw coming.

    "The Mist" is marvellous. Must see.


    Best bit: A really, really, really big beastie, glimpsed briefly through the mist.
  • matkins00
    December 2, 2009
    matkins00
    Based on the Steven King novella, "The Mist" was the second film based on his works to be released in 2007. By far, it is the best.
    Kudos to 1408, which was an effective enough film, but it was an appetizer for the main course of bad-ass that is "The Mist."
    This is not so much...( read more) a film as a slow building pressure cooker - the kind that will explode its contents of awe-inspiring gravitas directly in your face.
    It's a solid cast of characters surviving an otherwordly mist and the creatures living within it in a small town in Maine (it's King, what do you expect?). Tempers flare, rumours are spread and fear becomes the ultimate nullifier of all things logical and sensible. The store clerk, played by Toby Jones, has a line that sums up the movie best. "As a species, we're fundamentally insane." The monsters in the mist will offer you certain death, but the evil lurking inside us all can conjur up a fate far worse. Creepy. As. Fuck.
    In closing, this is a great horror film with one of the ballsiest endings in a Hollywood film ever. Maybe even THE ballsiest. There are those who say that they could see it coming, but I dare them to ignore the emotional and philisophical impact of it. Unfuckingbelievable. It's one of those moral messages you used to see in old Twilight Zone episodes and I like to think that Rod Serling is peering through from the other realm and smiling, thanking director Frank Darabont for bringing back something long missing from genre pieces: thought.
  • Liloh
    November 30, 2009
    Liloh
    THE MIST! by the way Mist translated in German means Shit But this Movie is far from that word anyway. BOY was I surprised.
  • weemuffin
    November 29, 2009
    weemuffin
    hmmm..a cross between alien and silent hill in my opinion... i would have given this a higher rating if the critters had been a tad more believable and realistic if possible...the bible bashing woman did my head right in!! she deserved what she got!! what a horrible ending thoug...( read more)h for the dude having to do what he did(i don't want to give it away if u want to watch it) i couldn't believe it when i saw it!!! u see...that's what the us army gets for messing with stuff they shouldn't be messing with!!!! ffs,leave it alone!!!
  • kymzii
    November 28, 2009
    kymzii
    I had no idea what this film was about, but I suspected it was a crappy B-moive, but I was pleasantly suprised. It's actually an enjoyable film. It was well written, even is the multidimensional alien angle was bit lame. And couldn't you just guess the army would come out of the ...( read more)mist in the end.
  • snnmulder
    November 26, 2009
    snnmulder
    Not being able to see because of the fogg makes it even more scary of course.
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