The Mist
David Drayton and his eight-year-old son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. All the shoppers have no clue what is going on until an old man runs in the market with a bloody nose and declares 'Something in the mist!' - creatures with large squid-like tentacles that have mouths, teeth, and arms. As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist or the ones inside the store, the human kind, the people that until now had been his friends and neighbors?
25 June 1970, USA
12 January 1998, Tacoma, Washington, USA
27 August 1988, San Diego, California, USA
1970, Durango, Mexico
14 August 1959, La Jolla, California, USA
19 July 1988, Dallas, Texas, USA
13 April 1950, Buffalo, New York, USA
8 April 1952, San Antonio, Texas, USA
28 May 1982, Paris, France
13 May 1938, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 August 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
17 February 1979, Houston, Texas, USA
November 14, 1968 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
19 January 1958
25 April 1947, Buffalo, New York, USA
19 March 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
7 April 1970, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
9 November 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
October 14, 2012
The Mist is a creature feature in which the monsters are almost incidental, but the panic and fear-mongering that comes with the territory is what ultimately causes the most chaos.December 01, 2007
It's a horror movie of real conviction. It deserves to be a hit.November 23, 2007
The Shawshank Redemption, was splendid; the second, The Green Mile, wasn't; and now The Mist continues the slide. I wouldn't say this is laugh-out-loud risible, but there are definitely moments.March 30, 2011
The Mist has a lot of the elements to be one of the great horror films, but it never quite puts it all together. It's still very good, but a few missteps keep it from ever being more than that.May 14, 2017
The last 30 minutes play like a dismissive ambush, leading to a final scene so utterly misguided that it I wanted to hurl obscenities at the screen.January 03, 2008
[This] grocery-store survival drama, dominated by Marcia Gay Harden as a shrill fundamentalist, serves as a crude but effective allegory for post-9/11 America.November 27, 2007
A near-campy escapist thrill ride.November 05, 2015
Frank Darabont presents a movie with one of the most pesimist and hopeless endings in cinema history. [Full review in Spanish]July 07, 2010
Writer-director Frank Darabont had skillfully translated the human drama of Stephen King's work in The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption , but he seems hopelessly lost in The Mist.November 24, 2007
Even though it is mindless, at least until the provocative ending, The Mist manages to provide some decent old-school shocks.September 23, 2010
The black-and-white version's stark contrasts give greater claustrophobic force to the fragility of civilization when ideology grows as deadly as any marauding beasts. Prepare also to be knocked cold and gut-kicked for good measure by its ending.November 26, 2007
The Mist builds toward a climax so wrenching that I hesitate to recommend the film, but I think Darabont earns his vision.