In "The Mist," based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. You may not be astonished if I tell you that there is Something Out There in the mist. It hammers on windows and doors and is mostly invisible until a shock cut that.
The movie bombed in the US and, it seems, most of the negative reviews on here are from US or Canadian viewers. But why? "The Mist" is directed by Frank Darabont and it stars Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Laurie Holden amongst others. The Mist builds toward a climax so wrenching that I hesitate to recommend the film, but I think Darabont earns his vision.
Frank Darabont presents a movie with one of the most pesimist and hopeless endings in cinema history. [Full review in Spanish]. The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Characters have a range of responses to the mist/monsters, including nobility, selfishness, fear, and courageousness. The Mist movie reviews & Metacritic score: David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a The Mist features one-dimensional characterisations, hammy effects and dialogue unrealistic enough to be laughable. The point is how the mist makes the characters react; how fear of the unknown can drive instinctual reactions, and how those reactions reveal their true selves. From left, Jeffrey DeMunn, Laurie Holden, Frances Sternhagen, Thomas Jane and Nathan Gamble in "The Mist."Credit.
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Read the Empire Movie review of Mist, The. Criminally overlooked in the States, this is one of the best horror movies of the last few. Refreshingly, with The Mist, Frank Darabont has gone the other way.
Of course, he started out writing horror flicks, but this is a guy whose directorial career has largely. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity. 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. A movie review by James Berardinelli.