The Mist

    The Mist
    2007

    Synopsis

    After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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    Cast

    • Thomas JaneDavid Drayton
    • Laurie HoldenAmanda Dunfrey
    • Toby JonesOllie Weeks
    • Marcia Gay HardenMrs. Carmody
    • Andre BraugherBrent Norton
    • William SadlerJim
    • Jeffrey DeMunnDan Miller
    • Sam WitwerPrivate Jessup
    • Chris OwenNorm
    • Alexa DavalosSally

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      Good and creepy, The Mist comes from a Stephen King novella and is more the shape, size and quality of the recent “1408,” likewise taken from a King story, than anything in the persistently fashionable charnel house inhabited by the “Saw” and “Hostel” franchises.
    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      There's a grim modern parable to be read into the dangerous effects of the gospel-preaching local crazy lady Mrs. Carmody (brilliantly played by a hellfire Marcia Gay Harden) on a congregation of the fearful.
    • 67

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      The scenes that really work are the ones that take place outside the supermarket, in the beginning and at the end of the film. In fact, the "Twilight Zone"-inspired ending nearly makes up for all that comes before.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      Unlike King, Darabont ends this story with a drop kick to the cerebellum, a change from the original that shocks the viewer and leave little doubt that Darabont thinks we're all headed to hell in a hand basket.
    • 63

      USA Today

      More thought-provoking than frightening. Its stubbornly cynical attitude makes it worth watching, more than the monsters or the impenetrable mist (which looks spewed from a fog machine) engulfing a small town in Maine.
    • 60

      The New Yorker

      The Mist is itself a supermarket of B-movie essentials, handsomely stocked with bad science, stupid behavior, chewable lines of dialogue, religious fruitcakes, and a fine display of monsters.
    • 60

      Washington Post

      More political allegory than horror movie.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Less horrific than it is horribly didactic.

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