En temps normal, dans un film, que font une cinquantaine de personnes retranchees dans un supermarche de campagne en proie a des attaques de creatures assoifees de sang : elles s'entraident n'est-ce pas ? Oui mais dans la realite, croyez-vous que soi... (read more) En temps normal, dans un film, que font une cinquantaine de personnes retranchees dans un supermarche de campagne en proie a des attaques de creatures assoifees de sang : elles s'entraident n'est-ce pas ? Oui mais dans la realite, croyez-vous que soit le cas ??? The Mist, tire d'une nouvelle de Stephen King, est un bien bon film qui nous rappelle que la sociologie a demontre depuis bien longtemps que la dynamique d'entraide se devoile bien rarement sous la contrainte de la peur. Amateur de happy ends et du mythe d'Abraham, passez votre chemin...

Loved the monster effects and the overall feel of the movie, but was disappointed with the ending twist... The original novella is one of my favourites from Stephen King. Nevertheless, it does remain quite enjoyable even though Mrs. Carmody creeps me... (read more) Loved the monster effects and the overall feel of the movie, but was disappointed with the ending twist... The original novella is one of my favourites from Stephen King. Nevertheless, it does remain quite enjoyable even though Mrs. Carmody creeps me out. ^-^

When I first saw it, I thought it was really good, but then the more I thought about it, I didn't like it. There are some familiar faces, but I thought the graphics were mediocre. I thought the end was a different taste then a typical Hollywood film,... (read more) When I first saw it, I thought it was really good, but then the more I thought about it, I didn't like it. There are some familiar faces, but I thought the graphics were mediocre. I thought the end was a different taste then a typical Hollywood film, and ironic, but the more I thought, the more I didn't like the ending and such. Not worth the buy, but if you're up to it, watch it. It's entertaining

Frank Darabount and Stephen King have made a rather fruitful partnership.

Here, Darabount tries his hand at one seems a conventional horror-story.

In THE MIST, we meet the Draytons, casual residents of the town by the mountains. After a rather ... (read more) Frank Darabount and Stephen King have made a rather fruitful partnership.

Here, Darabount tries his hand at one seems a conventional horror-story.

In THE MIST, we meet the Draytons, casual residents of the town by the mountains. After a rather strong storm, a tree crashes through the front window, and so the father and his son have to go the super-market to pick up some stuff.

After a highly tense encounter with his neighbor, whom there seems to have been past conflicts (there is something oddly racially charged about the two...might have to do with the fact that the neighbor is black and later on resents everyone by saying 'you people...') the father heads into town, seemingly going to be a normal day at the super market.

We meet all our characters: an old kindergarten teacher is chit-chatting, the resident insane evangelist remarks that everything is at it should be and sucks, an attractive grocery clerk is drawn to the service man walking into the store, the small-bagger, a scary looking biker dude...some others.

In any case, everyone is out and about...when a strange mist begins to flow into the parking lot. In fact, a wall of mist envelops the entire town. It is so thick that the outside world becomes a deadly still white.

An old man runs out of the mist, his nose bleeding, screaming that something is in the mist, and that it took a man and killed him.

Before anyone can realize what's happening, the bagger boy is killed by TENTACLES emerging from the loading dock, due to some arrogance on one guy's part (he thinks he's being talked down to by the 'college-graduate asshole') and then everything goes downhill for there.

Except fpr one woman who realizes that she has to go home to see her children, everyone is too paralyzed to do anything and refuse to help her.

She tells them all off and quietly enters the mist. From that point foward, every person in the store is doomed, either by fate, the mysterious monsters outside, or themselves....the worst of all.

At first, it seems that everyone will cooperate, though the skeptics make it hard for that to happen, as some refuse to believe....then there's the insane religious woman who believes it is the end of days....then she starts gaining followers when more and more people are killed...and then she demands SACRIFICE to appease the 'beasts' of hell....
The father and a few others realize that it may actually be better out 'there' than 'here', with the crazies....

Essentially, people are too dumb and selfish to live. The horrible fashions in which people are killed are random at best, malicious at worst.

Marcia Gay Harden gets the best role as the villanious, insane, axe crazy Miss Carmony (sp?) who by the end of the film is quite clearly willing to do anything to satisfy her blood-lust which has driven the other weakminded ones to madness as well.

The father is immediately broken by the events, though we don't realize this until the end....oh, the end....

While the most grim ending ever, it is necessary, as the woman, whom everyone probably thought did a stupid thing and died in the mist....well, I cannot say anymore....

Let's just say that the woman who left at the beginning might as well as condemned all those inside the store due to their selfishness, including the father and his son....

For you see, the Mist could be anything. Everyone, you'd think, would react logically and normally, hoping to survive by working together.
Of course, this is a fallacy, even in real life. Everyone panics, old grudges and contempt comes out of the woodwork. The weirdos and crazies suddenly make a lot of sense. Everybody starts dying and then the disaster itself is that....well, I'd hate to be cliche, but WE are the monsters. The worst kind of monster....

Frank Darabount and Stephen King have made a brilliant film here, albeit one of the most hard-lining dramas I've ever seen.
At times, you might think you were watching a play. Indeed, characters enter and leave their archetypal roles as the genre itself is de-constructed and obliterated.

I wish more Stephen king adaptations were like this, but alas, it seems that he is always to be seen as a gimmicky pulp writer. Which is shame. King has some compelling ideas. Most of adaptations of his work are wither utterly terrible or somethign resembling putrid poo. "IT", i'm looking at you...

But really, I think THE MIST is still underrated, if incorrectly classified.

Horror-film? Yes. Entertaining? Not one bit.

Mind-numbingly depressing and fatalistic? Definitely...

Being a big fan of the short story by Stephen King, and of director Frank Darabont, I had high hopes for this adaptation. I'm happy to say that it whooped my ass good in delivery. My main hook was the characters. Although it brought nothing new to th... (read more) Being a big fan of the short story by Stephen King, and of director Frank Darabont, I had high hopes for this adaptation. I'm happy to say that it whooped my ass good in delivery. My main hook was the characters. Although it brought nothing new to the table (how people react in a crisis) it reminded me how people can get scarier than the monsters that lurk outside. I was very involved with the characters trapped in this setting and spoke aloud to the movie at times (I know, I got issues...). I was also taken aback by the gore here. There are some really nasty surprises here and I won't give them away. Darabont is a brilliant filmmaker and I'm surprised (and very glad) he took on a movie ofthis type. He balanced the atmosphere, the mood, the angles and the story as a whole wonderously. Another amazing job from the man. The acting was also top notch, all around. Thomas Jane did a good job as the lead and special mention to Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody who got into her character so convincingly that I loved to loathe her. There are times when the CG gets phony, yet again (the tentacles) and there are some character turns that turned a little too abruptly for my liking, but as the movie rolled on I lost those dislikes quickly. The ending, althought different from the book, worked perfectly for the movie and made me want a drink afterwards. Add to that a brilliant use of music (Dead Can Dance... nice), a fast pace (2 hours?... didn't notice), creepy moments and a social commentary underneath it all and you get one of the better Hollywood horrors to come out in a long, long time.

Horror di media fattura e basso budget e si vede anche se gli effetti sono più che decenti considerate le cifre in ballo. Ma questo è un caso dove il finale vale tutto il film, ogni film horror dovrebbe finire così. Stephen King (autore del raccon... (read more) Horror di media fattura e basso budget e si vede anche se gli effetti sono più che decenti considerate le cifre in ballo. Ma questo è un caso dove il finale vale tutto il film, ogni film horror dovrebbe finire così. Stephen King (autore del racconto da cui è tratto il film) ha detto: "Vorrei aver pensato io questo finale per il mio libro" ...

Interesting! Marcia Gay Harden is really good. The scariest thing for me was to see these people in situation of stress who can change so quick into fanatics ready to kill...

I'm scared of a lot of things. Cancer, Al Qaeda, teenagers. Land octopi aren't in my top 1000.

Some scary movies can stand your hair on end. A few can make your skin crawl. The Mist gave me the feeling I was being scalped with an icicle.

The Mist is 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.

Frank Darabont ditches the warm and fuzzies for out-and-out cynicism about mankind's capacity for goodness and altruism with The Mist.