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The Mist
As a horror movie, The Mist doesn’t really work. There are a few spots of tension and one or two jump scares but never any sheer terror or shock.
Review by Sirus
The Mist is a movie based on a novella by Stephen King of the same name. The movie follows the fate of a small town of people as they find themselves holed up in a supermarket, afraid for their lives. There are others in the town outside the supermarket but the only fate anyone within the walls can know is their own. As the hours and the days go by, the situation turns from solidarity to anomie. The surviving people go at each other’s throats about one thing after another and no matter what happens, someone is arguing with someone else. One of the survivors in the store is a deeply religious woman named Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden) who is constantly going on and on about how the mist outside is caused by some sort of divine wrath. She is the catalyst behind much of the strife and turmoil. One pair of survivors that sticks with you is a man and his young son. The closeness of their relationship is presented perfectly and, if you don’t care for anyone else, you will pray that they don’t have to be separated.
Harden gives a fantastic performance as the religious nut everyone loves to hate. I don’t think there was a single person in the theater who didn’t want to run up and take her out themselves. There is a tension about the movie from start to finish that I could feel whenever anyone even mentioned going out into the mist. The movie is perfectly paced so just when you think you have it figured out, something else will come up to radically shift your view. As a horror movie, The Mist doesn’t really work. There are a few spots of tension and one or two jump scares but I never felt the sheer terror and shock that 1408 brought me. The movie does have a bit of blood but nothing excessive. If it wasn’t for the father-son relationship that kept showing up, I wouldn’t have really cared what happened to any of the people within that supermarket. The Mist had an ending that I wasn’t satisfied with but overall there have been many much better horror movies released this year. Anyone who hasn’t seen 1408 would be better off renting that instead.
As a horror movie, The Mist doesn’t really work. There are a few spots of tension and one or two jump scares but never any sheer terror or shock.
Review by Sirus
The Mist is a movie based on a novella by Stephen King of the same name. The movie follows the fate of a small town of people as they find themselves holed up in a supermarket, afraid for their lives. There are others in the town outside the supermarket but the only fate anyone within the walls can know is their own. As the hours and the days go by, the situation turns from solidarity to anomie. The surviving people go at each other’s throats about one thing after another and no matter what happens, someone is arguing with someone else. One of the survivors in the store is a deeply religious woman named Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden) who is constantly going on and on about how the mist outside is caused by some sort of divine wrath. She is the catalyst behind much of the strife and turmoil. One pair of survivors that sticks with you is a man and his young son. The closeness of their relationship is presented perfectly and, if you don’t care for anyone else, you will pray that they don’t have to be separated.
Harden gives a fantastic performance as the religious nut everyone loves to hate. I don’t think there was a single person in the theater who didn’t want to run up and take her out themselves. There is a tension about the movie from start to finish that I could feel whenever anyone even mentioned going out into the mist. The movie is perfectly paced so just when you think you have it figured out, something else will come up to radically shift your view. As a horror movie, The Mist doesn’t really work. There are a few spots of tension and one or two jump scares but I never felt the sheer terror and shock that 1408 brought me. The movie does have a bit of blood but nothing excessive. If it wasn’t for the father-son relationship that kept showing up, I wouldn’t have really cared what happened to any of the people within that supermarket. The Mist had an ending that I wasn’t satisfied with but overall there have been many much better horror movies released this year. Anyone who hasn’t seen 1408 would be better off renting that instead.
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