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The Mist (2008)

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Starring:	Thomas Jane \| Marcia Gay Harden \| William Sadler \| Alexa Davalos \| Chris Owen \| Nathan Gamble \| Laurie Holden \| Toby Jones \| Andre Braugher \| Jeffrey DeMunn
Director:	Frank Darabont
Studio:	MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time:	127 mins
Collections:	100 Hot Hits
Genres:	Horror \| Thriller
Languages:	English
Released:	November 10, 2008

David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are things lurking in the mist--deadly, horrifying things--creatures not of this world. Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together, but is that possible, given human nature? 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?

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5
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Ever since his first big-screen Stephen King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption, theres been feverish...

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Rated 5.0 stars
Frankie is in a bad mood....

hunkydomste from from Liverpool, 11th July, 2008

If you enjoyed Frank Darabont's optimism drenched Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile, you might want to think twice before booking your tickets for his latest Stephen King offering. Where there was alliance in Shawshank, there is deep discordia and fraction in The Mist. No cute little mice or the eventual triumph of Good here, instead you have limb chopping monsters and the film's ultimate evil nasty - Marcia Gay Harden, who excells and will have your skin crawling faster than the arachnoids habitating in the strange mist settling over a (surprise, surprise) sleepy little town. If you want dumbed down slash horror, you will be disappointed. At a meaty 2 and a bit hours, this is much more of a pitch of human evil against otherworldly monsters, with an almost stage like feel, some great performances and a mostly complete absence of the light at the end of the tunnel.... unless you count seeing the flashlight coming towards you that belongs to someone running to save his limbs and life. Marvellously bleak.

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146 out of 209 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0.0 stars
Maybe Just Maybe THE Worst Film I Have EVER Seen......EVER

NativityInBlack from , 13th July, 2008

i cannot understant (other than sheer vindictivness to induce others to suffer the pain of watching it for themselves) understand why or how anyone could give this film any kind of possitive rating, or for that atter mediocer rating.....

this film is right up there with Wolf Creek on the WTF am i doing watching this/why havnt i already walked out and demanded a reefeund steakes....

the acting is laughable, the story is thinner than a size 0 modle, the special effects look like they were done in the mid 90's (which wouldnt really matter if the rest was OK)....in every single aspect this film didnt dissapoint, it appalled.....it was soooooooooo bad when we came out of the cinema all anyone could say was thank the lord its finnished....

we could hardly believe it was ONLY 2 hours long, the movie dragged so hard i felt like id been watching Lord of the Rings, if it had been made by complete idiots and was about a man renting a car - driving the car and returning said car in acceptable condition.....

please believe me this film IS that boring, you WILL waste time and money you will never recover, you WONT believe how bad the actors are untill you see it for youself (but thats not a dare, dont go watch it just to see if im right or not)

Please do the right thing, wait for the DVD, rent the DVD, call some friends over and laugh you way through a really boring film (it was actually alot of fun taking the mick with my friends after the film was over....ur gonna remember the funny bits for a long time)

Please not there is NOTHING redeming about this film at all, if i made it appear that its so bad its worth watching/buying/taking seriously/a cult classic/anything else potentially good......then i am very sorry....AVOID THIS FILM, THIS FILM IS LIKE SEEING NOEL EDMONDS NAKED WHENEVER YOU SHUT YOUR EYES......

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92 out of 114 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1.0 stars
I haven't the foggiest...

PaulaWestwood from , 6th July, 2008

...clue why i sat through this for two l-o-n-g hours. I thought mmm Stephen King bit of horror, worth a watch. But this really was a dull bit of movie nonesense that pulled absolutely every horror cliche out of the book and expected us to find it fresh, entertaining and chilling. Unfortunately this is one mist you will see right through. Come on studios, if you are going to churn out dross like this at least do it in a pack marked 1.99 in a supermarket bin, so at we can all know what to expect if we buy it. We suffered this so you dont have to..

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