Until the director Frank Darabont decides that he’s saying something important instead of making a nifty horror movie, The Mist isn’t half bad.
Stephen King's The Mist (2007)
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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.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence, terror and gore, and language.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... 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 in their small town in Maine, artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) heads out to the town supermarket for some much-needed supplies with his young son, Billy (Nathan Gamble), and his neighbor, Norton (Andre Braugher), in tow. Their trip soon turns to terror when a menacing white mist settles in, leaving this group of locals and out-of-towners fighting for survival against an unknown, bloodthirsty enemy. When the local religious zealot (Marcia Gay Harden) begins to convince the group that the mist is punishment from God, Drayton and his cohorts realize that they may be trapped inside with an enemy just as dangerous as whatever is lurking outside. Tension runs high in this tale as the trapped group faces difficult moral decisions. Should they stay and wait out the terror, or make a break for it and risk suffering a terrible fate? Is the eerie mist the will of God, an experiment from the local military base gone awry, or, maybe, a freak natural disaster? Without modern conveniences and the normal conventions and rules to guide them, the group is easily swayed by the loudest opinion. Will they save themselves at the expense of each other, or work as a team to save everyone? There is a decent amount of blood and gore for horror fans, some deadpan humor and just a hint of politics thrown in for good measure. Thomas Jane is a stoic leading man, but Frances Sternhagen and Toby Jones are more fun as unlikely heroes. Laurie Holden, Alexa Davalos, Bill Sadler and Jeffrey Demunn also star in this creepy tale. [More]
Starring: Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher
Starring: Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler
Director: Frank Darabont
Director: Frank Darabont
Screenwriter: Frank Darabont
Producer: Frank Darabont, Liz Glotzer
Composer: Mark Isham
Studio: Weinstein Company
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Release:
Aug 11, 2009
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- 2-Disc Set
- Region 0
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1 - English
Features:
- 1. (In English/Not Rated) "Feature Commentary By Writer/Director Frank Darabont
- 2. Deleted And Extended Scenes with Optional Commentary
- 3. "A Conversation With Stephen King And Writer/Director Frank Darabont"
- 4. When Darkness Came
- 5. The Making Of The Mist
- 6. Taming The Beast
- 7. Shooting Scene 35
- 8. Monsters Among Us
- 9. A Look At Creature FX
- 10. The Horros Of It All
- 11. The Visual FX Of The Mist
- 12. Drew Struzan: The Appreciation Of An Artist
- 13. Webisodes
- 14. Trailer Gallery
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Reviews for Stephen King's The Mist
Film adaptations of King's work tend to be hit and miss, but with last summer's '1408' and now this scary-as-hell flick, he's on a roll.
The Eli Roths of the world? Ah, who needs 'em!...The Mist is suspenseful and scary, two elements not factoring into horror much these days.
As a allegory of the human condition, it kind of comes up short but as a straightforward monster movie, it is a fairly effective work that should entertain buffs and neophytes alike.
Frank Darabont's The Mist is easily the best horror film since The Blair Witch Project and the most socially frightening statement about humanity in the post 9/11 era.
a very simple title for a complex and intriguing tale that's more about humanity than a bunch of monsters.
It's one of the most daring endings I have seen all year, which wins Darabont and King plenty of points from me for courageously going against the grain.
I'm scared of a lot of things. Cancer, Al Qaeda, teenagers. Land octopi aren't in my top 1000.
Touches upon the frightening fantasy of monsters hidden in the mist and the unsettling reality of monsters walking revealed among us.
Suburban paranoia and primitive savagery conspire to create far deeper terrors than the creatures which emerge from the titular fog.
A scary-fun horror flick that doesn't skimp on the thrills or the mayhem.
Like the novella the film is adapted from, The Mist is most interesting in its observation of societal upheaval in the face of fear.
The scenes that really work are the ones that take place outside the supermarket, in the beginning and at the end of the film.
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.
Good and creepy, The Mist comes from a Stephen King novella and is more the shape, size and quality of the recent 1408.
The film isn't particularly chilling but it provides food for thought with its downright vicious assertion that humans are equally as monstrous as anything supernatural.
A flawed, sometimes goofy, but exciting and surprisingly clever adaptation of Stephen King's horror yarn.
Yes a 'doorway' opens into Maine and a crisis ensues. And it's not until the creatures learn there's also a doorway to Cabo San Lucas that the crisis finally ends.
It's a messy, ultimately depressing horror film that feels like an overlong episode of TV's The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
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