The Mist
15, Nationwide
As any fan of Howard Hawks, George A. Romero or John Carpenter will know, it’s not the monsters outside your window that you should worry about. It’s the people who are trapped indoors with you. Your friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues. The Humans. They’re the most horrific things of all.
This dreary set-up has inspired a handful of great films — from The Thing from Another World (1951) through to Night of the Living Dead (1968) and The Thing (1982). A rich lineage, indeed. And although it doesn’t add anything particularly new, Frank Darabont’s The Mist may well deserve a place alongside them.
The Mist sticks pretty closely to its Stephen King source — a 1981 novella of the same name — making it considerably brisker and more fantastic than Darabont’s previous King features, The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Green Mile (1999).
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