Storyline
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. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Directors
Cast
Toby Jones, Susan Malerstein, Samuel Witwer, Jeffrey DeMunn, William Sadler, Brian Libby, Tiffany Morgan, Jimmy Lee Jr., Nathan Gamble, Thomas Jane, Chris Owen, David Jensen, Kevin Beard, Jay Amor, Julio Cedillo, Buck Taylor, Andy Stahl, Ritchie Montgomery, Alexa Davalos, Gregg Brazzel, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Louis Herthum, Marcia Gay Harden, Mathew Greer, Frances Sternhagen, Jackson Hurst, Juan Gabriel Pareja, Eric Kelly McFarland, Amin Joseph, Dodie Brown, Robert C. Treveiler, Brandon O'Dell, Melissa McBride, Walter Fauntleroy, Kelly Collins Lintz, Ginnie Randall, Kim Wall, Ron Clinton Smith, Sonny Franks, Derek Cox-Berg, Cherami Leigh, Ted Ferguson, Mike Martindale
Trailer
Reviews
88
Chicago Tribune
Good and creepy, The Mist comes from a Stephen King novella and is more the shape, size and quality of the recent “1408,” likewise taken from a King story, than anything in the persistently fashionable charnel house inhabited by the “Saw” and “Hostel” franchises.
83
There's a grim modern parable to be read into the dangerous effects of the gospel-preaching local crazy lady Mrs. Carmody (brilliantly played by a hellfire Marcia Gay Harden) on a congregation of the fearful.
67
The scenes that really work are the ones that take place outside the supermarket, in the beginning and at the end of the film. In fact, the "Twilight Zone"-inspired ending nearly makes up for all that comes before.
67
Unlike King, Darabont ends this story with a drop kick to the cerebellum, a change from the original that shocks the viewer and leave little doubt that Darabont thinks we're all headed to hell in a hand basket.
63
More thought-provoking than frightening. Its stubbornly cynical attitude makes it worth watching, more than the monsters or the impenetrable mist (which looks spewed from a fog machine) engulfing a small town in Maine.
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