Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Mist (2007)

Director Frank Darabont had great success with Stephan King prison movies as The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Now he takes on a different but equally claustrophobic King story in The Mist. Here we have denizens of a typical King Main town trapped in a local grocery outlet after a mysterious Mist surrounds the building. The mist hides a variety of strange and deadly creatures, who have a taste for viciously devouring humans alive. This is all probably related to the secret military experiments going on up at 'the mountain', but crazy religious lady Marcia Gay Harden thinks its 'The Book of Revelations' coming to fruition. In all its everything you want in a King movie, with Toby Jones my pick as the standout for portraying a rather unusual hero. A-typical ending.

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