The Mist Reviews

When I was a freshman in college - back in the mid-1980s - and still in my "rabid Stephen King fan" stage, I bought the hardcover edition of the best-selling "Master of Horror's" anthology of short stories Skeleton Crew, which not only featured stories along the lines of "Word Processor of the Gods," "Survivor Type" and "The Monkey," but showcased a novella titled The Mist, in which a cross-section of a small Maine town's population is trapped by unearthly monsters in a supermarket after a storm knocks out the electricity and a strange mist envelops the town and the surrounding countryside.

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If you aren't hung up on originality, this one works most of the time as a creepy horror film delivering some overly recognizable character types that you'll probably have enough empathy for, so that the jolts and twists of the story really work quite effectively.

Now I'm not saying for one nano-second that this highly derivative film is a new classic; its...

David Drayton (Thomas Jane of The Punisher) is a commercial illustrator whose work on a new movie...

Although I love Stephen King as an author, most of his movie adaptations are pretty awful.  There have been a few good ones (The Shining, Carrie, etc.), but most go the way of awfulness like Dream Catcher or Secret Window,  However, Frank Darabont did a good job on Shawshank, so this showed some promise.

 This film contained shades of 2 of my favorites from the Horror/Sci-Fi Realm; H.P. Lovecraft and the Twilight Zone.  Yes, the movie contained mythical monsters from another dimension, and also examined the human condition with a diverse cross section of people stuck in a small space under...

This movie is based upon the novella of the same name by Stephen King.  It has a special place in my heart because it was the very first thing by King that I ever read, and it sunk its hooks into me so deeply that I've been a fan of his ever since.

The movie follows the novella fairly closely (as I recall - it's been quite a while since I've read the novella) up to the breakout from the grocery store.

In a (very brief) nutshell, the story is as follows:

A small Maine town is hit by an extremely strong thunderstorm one night.  The next day, as part of cleaning up, an artist and his young son, along...

This is one of my favorite short stories by Stephen King. I was one of the first in line the day before Thanksgiving to see this film. I was hoping one day that they would make a movie out of this story but I was glad that they waited. The Special Effects would have been horrible if they had made this movie even five years ago and the story line hinges on the believability of the things in the mist.

The movie stays true to the short in most ways and that is really a good thing. This is not just a horror movie. It is a study of human and group dynamics. A look at how large groups of survivors act...

We all see trailers for movies and think "wow that movie is either going to be really great, or really aweful". When I first saw the trailer for THE MIST I thought it was going to be hokey and just plain poorly written. I couldn't have been more wrong.

This film deals with more than just it's immediate subject matter of "something in the mist". It strikes down deep into the bedrock of human failing. How often do we stop to think of the consequences of our actions? How often do we think that, by making this one bad choice, it will effect the course of so many other things?

Beyond that, the movie...

Stephen King's The Mist: 

I totally enjoyed this movie.  I am a big fan of Stephen King and was anxious to see if this movie would prove to be as good as his others.  I was not disappointed.  This movie stars sexy, Tom James (The Punisher). 

A small town is taken over by a mist.  This is no ordinary mist and there are things lurking in the mist that are not of this world.  A group of people are trapped in a supermarket and are forced to fore-go their differences to survive. 

This movie keeps your attention from beginning to end.  It is definitely worth watching. 

Be forewarned.  The...