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.
  • lozza0308
    November 10, 2009
    lozza0308
    Didn't do the book justice. Poor acting and bad special effecrs.
  • sparks235
    November 7, 2009
    sparks235
    It's one of the best Stephen King movies yet, even though the ending is a little surprising!
  • Raider34r
    November 6, 2009
    Raider34r
    This has to be one of the best if not the best horror/thriller film of the 2000's. I like to think of it as a great apocalyptic movie. Its also by far one of the best Stephen King adaptions ever made. It has some very good acting and other good stuff.
  • TheEtherealSolitude
    November 3, 2009
    TheEtherealSolitude
    Probably the best horror movie I've ever seen.

    The movie from beginning to end was awesome.
    Especially the ending, which was a complete shocker. Who would've guessed!
  • tyb323
    November 2, 2009
    tyb323
    Excellent movie. Lord of the flies, just instead of a pigs head there are monsters in the mist.
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