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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 
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MCT:November 21, 2008
The start of this movie shares an easy comparison to The Fog and briefly starts to seem comical. However, with the plot movied on, some memorable characters and a completely unexpected twist for an ending, I have to admit that I really liked the film.
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MCT:November 21, 2008i didn't really like this one it was tragic and thats not how it ended in the book he didn't kill his kid and the rest of the people i love thomas jane acting performance although i was anoyed by the crazy christain over all still good movie not the best of stephen kings works but not the worst either
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MCT:November 19, 2008
American horror films that really matter can be categorized into three basic time periods: before and after Vietnam and before and after Sept.11..... 2001 is a year that transmogrified our nation's (and the world's) concept of HORROR forever. All works of art imitate life, and film is no exception. Movies ranging from good (The Host) to not so good (Spielberg's War of the Worlds) display fully how the cinema can serve as an expressive canvas for the world's current social climates of fear and paranoia. "The Mist" is director Frank Darabont's (Shawshank Redemption) vicious response to the accusations that he is only capable of delivering Frank Capra type films (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) with "Capra-Corn" type happy endings. This movie is one of the most pessimistic views of humanity ever committed to film. Although Stephen King wrote this short story in 1980, the themes and ideas in it are only more universal today. The film revolves around the familiar Doomsday scenario archetype we have seen in many other classic horror flicks; there is some bizarre event that causes people to be trapped in a situation where they are huddled in a confined space together. John Carpenter's "The Thing"(1982) and George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead"(1968) immediately come to mind. And, like those two filmmakers, Frank Darabont uses this set-up as a microcosm of contemporary society, and how fear of the unknown can bring the worst out in people in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic event.(be it; the Cuban Missile crisis, Vietnam, Columbine, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, etc.) After a big strange electrical storm, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his son head to their local grocery store to gather supplies. Not long after they arrive, a bone chilling tornado siren blares through the town that sounds like a 50's era nuclear bomb warning; the sound you might hear in the event of a terrorist attack. A large fog bank then descends onto the town and engulfs it in an eerie cold mist. A frightened senior citizen soon comes sprinting out of it exclaiming that "there is something in the mist!", and in no time at all, the audience is in Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" territory when we discover the true nature of this both literal and metaphorical mist. The Japanese designers of the disturbing videogame "Silent Hill" have admitted that this Stephen King story was their core influence for their game's ominous dread, and come to think of it - Director Frank Darabont should have been the filmmaker the studio chose to adapt that prestigious videogame to the screen instead of Christoph Gans, the MTV Euro-trash who butchered it. After a strange variety of creatures lurking in the fog make themselves visible to the towns people, the true horror of the film commences when they realize their communications are down and begin turning on each other. With all of the praise I am giving this film, you may wonder why I am only giving it four stars instead of a perfect five; and that's because of one really bad CGI pass involving a tentacle in the first act. If you've seen the picture you know what I'm talking about, it just really distracted me and took me out of the mood I was in for a split second. Then for the rest of this shockingly low-budgeted film, the dazzling FX are a handsome mixture of CG, animatronics, and gruesome make-up effects (courtesy of Greg Nicotero) worthy of a Guillermo del Toro movie. I wish Darabont could have gotten his black & white cut of this film released because it fits the old drive-in theater horror mood much better. Oh well, atleast it's set to be released on the dvd. The acting is superb, in that melodramatic old-Hollywood classicist way. Thomas Jane and Andre Braugher's performances really stand out, and above all Marcia Gay Harden delivers the best and scariest performance in the film. Mark Isham's score is used appropriately only to punctuate apocalyptic moments and is thankfully never used as a manipulative crutch. Some people are so deeply disturbed by the ending of this film and the shocking decision David Drayton (Thomas Jane) makes, and I was immediately reminded of a true-life story i heard of someone trapped in their home during hurricane Katrina with their sick grandmother who made a similar heartbreaking decision.....It's a real filmmaker's uncompromising vision rifled through the current American zeitgeist that wont sit well with modern pampered audiences. The final product of this film aesthetically rests somewhere between B-horror escapism and the prestige of M. Night Shyamalan's art house hybrids. I salute Darabont for getting his vision onto the screen, and for wearing his influences on his sleeve while also managing to create an original work that doesn't exist as one tired homage ("Grindhouse" double feature anyone?). George Romero and John Carpenter would be proud.
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MCT:November 19, 2008as u no i hate horror movie but some i watch and some i not watch but i thought i watch this movie and jes i got the shit scared out off me but it was good 2 watch and u got very jump in this flim ur stuck in a room and out side well thatsd wat u have 2 fine out but watch it and u see waht happen in the movie but there a twist at the end but i did enjoy it but again i not a fan off horror movies!!!
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MCT:November 15, 2008
I really liked The Mist. It is a lot darker than I thought it would ever be, and that was great. I think the ending will piss a lot of people off, but I liked it. I think this could be one of the best Stephen King stories since The Green Mile.
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carla223posted 5 days ago -
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If anyone is looking the song at the very end of the show its, The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance. If you have iTunes, it should be in iTunes store.
Its a beatiful and haunting song.posted 87 days ago -
The film wasn't bad at all even if it was flawed, I believe all people have a dark side waiting to come out & nothing like panic or fear of the unknown would bring the monster out. The true monsters in this film are the people in the grocery store not the ones in the mist. The ending , however was completely uncalled for & lacked any kind of logic; why not wait in the car for as long as they can, why rush things?
posted 130 days ago -
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It is appalling how many of the reviews are complete spoilers. Stop including the key details!
posted 143 days ago -
I do have to say that I was not a huge fan of this movie. It was alright, but there were things that could have been redone. The book is a lot better and I prefer that ending. This ending did nothing for me. As far as the "crazy lady" that was a huge idea of the story, she is meant to be hated, that's the point. I think if Stephen King had more of a hand in the making of this movie it would be better.
posted 218 days ago -
To me this is a typical Stephen King movie/book when the concept is basically a simple one and then it is hammered over and over again. These instant-characters who basically come out of a cartoon. I don't care about the special effects so that is not my complaint.
The characters go to the next door drugstore but can't get to the car that is visible from the store window? "Hey, who owns the 2004 Scion"??
The "heroes" go through what they do, only to allow themselves to be shot because they run out of gas? Then the tragic emergence of the Marines 5 minutes after the guy kills his son? C'mon. This seems like a f-you from Stephen King seeing what people will swallow.
Oh. I forgot to say, I hated this film.posted 221 days ago -
It's a very well thought story about where desperation may lead you in times of criciss,I was shocked how quicklly people turned one against the other and how they were listening to all that bullshit from that fake prophet,seeing that pour souldier getting stabbed to death kinda remined me of Jesus on he's last road on this earth.And that end....left me speachless I think most of us whould have done the same.This movie wasn't made to be extremly scarry or to be a huge hit in the box office,but was made to show the hidden dark "otherside" in our human mentality.
posted 226 days ago -
Did anyone besides me get the prophetic references (not in what the Bible lady said, but in the events of the movie themselves)? It parallels a lot of what it says in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
p.s. I agree with what barbadosx said, also.posted 231 days ago
