The Review I wrote at my Flixster profile immediately after watching the movie. Im sorry, but I disagree with many of the posters here!
Mutant bugs and religious nutcases take the helm in this psychological horror flick which miserably fails to become the psychological horror movie it aspired to be, and falls flat on its B-type face.
The Mist is based on a Stephen King novella and is adapted to the screen by Frank Darabont who previously adapted The Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile. The horror , is not really about the super genetically enhanced bugs crawling about in small-town Maine and killing everything in its path, but really stems from the tried, tested and tired idea that the Real horror is Us- Man is the Real Horror.
Following a freak storm, a group of people who had been stocking up on supplies are forced to take refuge in a supermarket as the mystery mist descenRAB upon town. Several killings later courtesy of some mutant bugs that have probably come out of the Power Rangers set, one character states, "It appears we may have a problem of some magnitude". The dialogue just keeps getting better after that!
Inside the store, we probably have an assembly of what could probably be described as the Most annoying Collective of people ever known to Man. Amongst them, a religious nutcase who becomes a focal point in the film. With doomsday seemingly fast approaching she turns fanatical and manages to get the whole cast going Lord of the Flies- like, with Man turning against Man. Thus, the Real horror is unleashed, and the all important message that the Real enemy and horror is Man Himself, is annoyingly trumpeted in our faces.
Much of the action in the movie lacks credibility, even within the fictional world it has itself created. Characters whom are not given much depth to start of with, start behaving in inexplicable ways, ways that cannot even be excused by the fact that fear has overtaken them. Then we have some characters questioning the Reality of the Horror of the Super-Sized Mutant Bugs â
