The Mist Reviews

Stephen King's work has been growing on me, I wasn't crazy about it before but after seeing and reading more of his books and the film/TV series adapted from them I do respect his style, he has a unique and I think unparallelled way of describing fear, and find his ideas intriguing. In all honesty, The Mist is not one of the best film adaptations. The book was very good, if not great, but the film was just decent. It looks great with great photography and effects, the story is intriguing and starts off very well, the acting especially from Marcia Gay Holden is good as is the direction, there is a strong atmosphere and the soundtrack and sound further adds to it. I was almost though willing to forgive the sometimes pedestrian pacing and clunky dialogue, until the ending let the film down completely. The ending is a slap in the face not only for fans of the book or King but also for those like me saw a film with so much promise, and its tone feels like a completely different movie. In conclusion, was pretty good, if only it weren't for that ending. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This shit was so funny. Oh my god. Only Kubrick could made an adaptation of a shit made by King don’t t look like ass. Incredibly pretentious Lovercraft wannabe with one of the funniest endings ever made.

La creatividad es una de las cosas que yo más valoro en el mundo y este es uno de esos casos donde un grupo de personas con muy pocos recursos unieron sus esfuerzos para hacer un trabajo interesante. Admito que muchas veces peca de no ser estéticamente acertada, pero el guión y las actuaciones hacen que sea entretenida a cada momento y una recomendación perfecta para ver con los amigos, la pareja o incluso solo si eres amante de las películas de horror de los 80's y los 90's, ya que tiene una enorme parte de ese feeling.

Based on Stephen King's novel, The Mist is movie of king's typical twist. Followed by a overnight storm, strange mist prevail over country side. David along with his son and neighbour Brent went to a supermarket near their country side to get hold of some house hold stuff. However things got ugly their and it came out a strange creature monstrous type is in the mist killing people. While Mrs Carmondy think it is a wrath from God, sign of end of days, however it also revealed a secret military experiment has gone haywire.

As typical the end of movie is climax, when David think he has left with no choice, not to spoil others fun, I am not disclosing it. Have fun.

One of the worst book adaptations I have ever watched. The ending was so bad I wanted a refund even though I saw the movie for free. This movie does a great job of teaching one what NOT to do in a disaster situation.

     Stephen King has returned to his favorite town of Castle Rock. So loved this town that he intermittently likes to put it under attack by every imaginable unimaginable evil. And the people of Castle Rock return this love by not packing their bags, selling their house and moving out. Okay, so they’re a bunch of masochists.

     In this latest King story, the quiet town of Castle Rock is suddenly enveloped by a strange, mysterious mist that came from out of nowhere. And ordinary people, like happy family man David Drayton (played by Thomas Jane) react to it calmly at first, not until from out of the mist come gigantic, tentacled monsters and start slaughtering people, that he panics and tries to protect his family.  

     I haven’t read the book. Usually in a standard King story, character intros are long and detailed, but in this movie, director Frank Darabont doesn’t waste time. Soon David and his family get trapped in a supermarket along with other survivors and wait it out. But help is a long way from coming that they resort to gung-ho plans to survive. The monsters will get them eventually if they don’t brave it out and make a run for it. Now, these mist monsters kill people in the most excruciatingly horrendous, painful way possible that it is better to kill yourself than to succumb to the pain. And this very belief which will cause the biggest grief in the end—a twist that is so, should I say, really f**d-up.   

     Darabont has all of King’s character sketches to play with and they provide the myriad of emotions needed. But one character bugged me a bit---Marcia Gay Harden’s prophetic, bible spewing nuisance. And I thought with all the bad things that have plagued the town, a religious-fanatic like her would have been driven out of town by now. She wasn’t helping and with her call for human sacrifice to appease the monsters, she only made things worse.

    “The Mist” is horror/sci-fi movie about paranoia, survival, and the inevitability of doom. The movie also stars Laurie Holden and Jeffrey DeMunn and is also written for the screen by Darabont.

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back and since I have it on DVD, I was quite eager to check it out again. First of all, even though Frank Darabont has directed arguably the best movie ever made, he didn't have much success afterwards. Indeed, since then he has directed only 3 movies and only 'The Green Mile' has been successful. His 4th and final feature so far was yet another Stephen King adaptation and even though it was barely seen, it is actually one of his best movies in my opinion. Basically, it is a standard horror flick which masterfully plays with the old rule saying that invincible threats are the scariest ones. So, I thought it was really well directed and Thomas Jane gave probably his best performance so far. The best aspect in his feature was probably how it depicts the various reactions of the inhabitants in this dramatic situation. There was also a lot of talk about the ending but I'm not sure if it was really convincing. On one hand, it was indeed quite powerful and heartbreaking but, on the other hand, I thought it was way too theatrical and actually rather awkward. Indeed, just 5 minutes after everyone in the car has been shot, you get to see the tanks showing up. I mean, it would have worked better if the main character would have been walking around for hours and then see the tanks. But that was the whole point: to make him kill everyone just 5 minutes before they're saved. Sure, it was strong but unnecessarily cruel, in my opinion. To conclude, even though it is not one of Darabont's most highly regarded work, I still think it is one of his best movies and it is definitely worth a look.

Acredito que seja um filme bastante subestimado.Não é um terror qualquer,as discussões sobre a natureza humana no supermercado são bastante interessantes,porém pouco notadas.E o final ,é claro,é sensacional.

"O Nevoeiro" é uma daquelas experiências que nos lembram para que o cinema é feito: nos transportar. Somos tirados da sala escura e colocados em meio àqueles personagens angustiados, desesperados por uma salvação que talvez nunca virá.

Adaptado de um conto de Stephen King, "O Nevoeiro" conta a história de uma cidadezinha que, depois de uma tempestade, é engolida por um nevoeiro. O filme é dirigido por Frank Darabont, já vetereano em adaptações de King. Antes, dirigiu "Um Sonho de Liberdade" e "À Espera de um Milagre".

O que torna "O Nevoeiro" o melhor filme de horror de 2008 é que Darabont entendeu que os monstros representam a escuridão da alma humana. E o terror que se tem da névoa é o mesmo que existe dentro de nós reprimido pela confiança nas instituições. E quando isto se ausenta, o ser humano é mais monstruoso e perverso do que qualquer criatura. E as criaturas não são o perigo real do filme.

O real perigo de "O Nevoeiro" se chama Sra. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), religiosa fanática que vê no nevoeiro o fim dos tempos e instala o caos dentro daquela comunidade. Marcia Gay Harden faz, depois de Ledger como o Coringa de "Cavaleiro das Trevas", a melhor atuação coadjuvante. Sra. Carmody junto de seus delírios e triunfos aterroriza tanto que concluimos que ela é o verdadeiro perigo do longa.

"O Nevoeiro" erra pouco apostando em algumas atuações caricatas e um breve romance desnecessário, mas que não tiram o mérito de melhor filme de horror visto em 2008 e uma das melhores adaptações das obras de Stephen King.

Só mais uma coisa: o final de "O Nevoeiro" é pertubador e um dos melhores que já vi em toda minha vida cinéfila.

started kind of promising, at the first sight of tentacles I was sceptical... Still, dispite of strange/bad dialog and fishy explanations it wasn't a total trainwreck until the very end... I'm sorry, but when you make the viewer watch an apacolypse for 2,5 hours, the ending better be freakin good! Theres no need to spill my guts on how it ended, but I dare claim, that it is hands down the WORST ending I have EVER seen... It was like something an angry 14 year old would write on an essay, just to piss of the teacher who had to read 10 pages of crappy grammer. AND, when you throe in words like "alternate dimension" or "portal to another world", I better see some sort of fancy shit, not just a bad actor uttering a few sentences with no visual stuff...

Don't waste 2,5 perfectly usable hours of lifetime on this crap....