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
- 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.