The Mist

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  December 25, 2009

  organgrinder136

  HORRIFYING!

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  December 5, 2009

  ironclad1609

  After Shawshank redemption and Green Mile, Frank Darabont once again turns a Stephen King story into a film, this time it's real horror. And by horror I do not (only) mean the creatures that linger in the mist that arises in a small town one fine morning, but the reactions humans...( read more) show when facing what may seem to be the end of the world. Marcia Gay Harden's religiously fanatic character may be one of the most hate worthy ones ever written (even if a little over the top at times), Thomas Jane is, once again after Deep Blue Sea, a convincing leading hero. Sadly, the CGI and creature design of the film is not always top notch, although some sequences are better than others. The intimate play scenes between the characters facing the unexplainable are pretty strong, though. And the ending...well, it's hard not to have an opinion on it. Everyone may react differently to it, but at least it doesn't leave you unaffected and will probably not be forgotten any time soon. One of the better Stephen Kind adaptations.

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  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.

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  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!

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  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.

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  December 23, 2009

  subasnazir

  Full of suspense...
  Really unexpected ending

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  December 23, 2009

  bluefire501

  kinda of corney movie big let down to me

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  December 21, 2009

  khunglong3duoi

  i dont think this one was that good. it brought us a experience when ur stuck with unpredictable people in a insurmountable circumstance. they would do anything to have a trust to someone or something to get better. they would kill, sucide... be fierce, natural, wild, selfish, st...( read more)upid, ....i think evrything happened in this movie was the fact of kind of experiment about struggle of human beings when they'r in these case. however, the end was shocking and can be guessed, thats great, hurtful and unforgettable!

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  December 20, 2009

  blashyrkh1985

  really good movie, sad ending tho

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  December 20, 2009

  eryri

  A fabulous movie based on a Stephen King book this was of a deadly mist that comes down on a town one day which hides some dangerous secrets. Anybody caught outside is killed by whoever or whatever is hiding in the mist. A group of townspeople are trapped inside their local super...( read more)market. Factions start to form and people start turning on each other. Do they stay there or make a break and hope for the best outside? A rather gripping, tense movie which delivers a gut wrenching climax. I just didn't expect such a bleak ending like that. I liked it.

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