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Reviews Counted:137
Fresh:99
Rotten:38
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Frank Darabont's impressive camerawork and politically incisive script make The Mist a truly frightening experience.
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $25,495,768
Synopsis: Frank Darabont (THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE GREEN MILE) serves as director, writer, and producer of THE MIST, an adaptation of Stephen King's classic novella. After a vicious storm wreaks havoc... [More]
Starring: Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher
Director: Frank Darabont
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A combination monster/disaster movie, it explores issues as fundamentally elusive as the nature of man, the existence of God and the purpose of religion, and its conclusions aren't going to leave anybody feeling too good about whatever they believe.
Top CriticThe film has the decency to spring another critter out from the darkness whenever things threaten to get too talky.
If the film's finale proves more gutsy in theory than it does in practice, it doesn't completely erase the fine, fatalistic freak show that Darabont delivers early on.
If you ever want to produce an adaptation of a Stephen King story, call Frank Darabont.
It's an old-fashioned spooker that gives the boogey-man more than a fighting chance, and leaves you more concerned about the evil out there than you were before you survived the experience.
Top CriticYes, something is in the mist. Lots of things are in the mist. They’re gorgeous and frightening and strange and elaborately detailed, and the effects used to create them allow them to blend in seamlessly with the live action.
Top CriticIt is a competently made Horrible Things Pouncing on People Movie. If you think Frank Darabont has equaled the Shawshank and Green Mile
Top CriticIt's not the next horror classic, but it is the next horror film that creates a scary tension that lasts for most of the movie.
Deeply upsetting enough for me to recommend it to only the heartiest viewers.
That bloated sense of purpose turns what could have been a nifty B-movie into a strained, two-hours-plus Twilight Zone episode, and, believe me, Darabont's no Rod Serling.
Slack yet also bludgeoning.
Darabont has made an old-fashioned scary movie that uses a B-name movie cast (minus Harden) as set-piece fodder: victims and antagonists of the film's menacing creepy-crawlies.
... la finale la plus audacieuse d'un film hollywoodien depuis des années.
A remarkably faithful adaptation of King's novella ... destined to be considered among the classic King horror adaptations.
... Darabont's made what can best be called a grade-A B-movie, full of jolts and jumps and classic monster-movie tricks played out with old-school showmanship and thoroughly modern special effects.
...could have been a fantastic, 80-minute B movie - it certainly has the appropriately shlocky special effects - if it weren't directed by Frank 'Stephen King' Darabont.
Darabont and King are more concerned with speculating how people deal with alien monsters laying siege to their town like so many Phish fans.
'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' the quote from "Network", sums up nicely my current feelings about horror films, specifically 'The Mist'.
The town nutcase, the bible-thumping Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden, over-acting yet again), is so convincing that one of the crowd commits suicide, and another, the store's butcher, stabs one of the good guys --- ("Clean up in Aisle Three!")
Dark, tense, and punctuated by just enough gore to keep the viewer's flinch reflex intact.
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March 24, 2008:
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November 30, 2007:
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