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Movie Overview
Cast
• Thomas Jane
• Marcia Gay Harden
• Laurie Holden
Director
• Frank Darabont
MPAA Rating
R - for violence, terror and gore, and language
Stephen King's The Mist (2007)

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OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh
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"Like Shyamalan's Signs but without the salvationist coda, The Mist is a bleak look at what happens when faith, hope and charity have all got lost in the fog."  musicOMH.com  Anton Bitel

4/5
"The Mist is destined to go down as a modern horror classic."  PopMatters  Bill Gibron

A-
"The Eli Roths of the world? Ah, who needs 'em!...The Mist is suspenseful and scary, two elements not factoring into horror much these days."  eFilmCritic.com  Brian Orndorf

A-
"Stephen King's The Mist is a reminder of what a great horror movie is all about."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

3/4
"...the movie's underlying apocalyptic feel - cemented by the unbelievably grim (and downright haunting) finale - is more than effective enough to carry it through a few slow spots."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C
"Too transfixed into a mist of its own making to be either enjoyable or sensible."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2/4
"Takes a terrifying plot and then somehow manages to miss the mark and the scares."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

B+
"A scary-fun horror flick that doesn't skimp on the thrills or the mayhem."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

4/4
"Frank Darabont's The Mist is easily the best horror film since The Blair Witch Project and the most socially frightening statement about humanity in the post 9/11 era."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

3.5/4
"This is why I love post-apocalyptic movies..."  Cinema Crazed  Felix Vasquez Jr.

3/4
"Intensa, violenta, y sobre todo cruel."  Doncinema.com  Flavio J. Arosemena

B
"While The Mist is nothing more than an old-fashioned monster flick, it's one that's been given an impressive facelift."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

B
"A celebration of level-headed agnosticism, easily read as both anti-science and anti-religion, anti-military and anti-civilian."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

3.5/4
"Dark, tense, and punctuated by just enough gore to keep the viewer's flinch reflex intact."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3/5
"Darabont slowly cranks up the tension, patiently stringing us along as the trapped characters come to understand the extent of their predicament and the dawning realization of their impending doom."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

3/4
"... Darabont's made what can best be called a grade-A B-movie, full of jolts and jumps and classic monster-movie tricks played out with old-school showmanship and thoroughly modern special effects."  Cinematical  James Rocchi

10/10
"Click here to read review"  vj.net.ua  Jaroslav Vishtaljuk

1/4
"In the worst film about a weather pattern since 2005's The Fog, Stephen King go-to adapter Frank Darabont launches this dreadful misfire that works as neither horror nor social commentary."  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

7/10
"Deeply upsetting enough for me to recommend it to only the heartiest viewers."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

3.0/4.0
"Wow, TWO good movies based on Stephen King stories in the same year? You bet. As entertaining as 1408? Not quite."  MovieCrypt.com  Kevin A. Ranson

B-
"Like the novella the film is adapted from, The Mist is most interesting in its observation of societal upheaval in the face of fear."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2.5/4
"If [Darabont] doesn't quite make the story work as a pop allegory about mob mentality and the wages of fear, he does take it to a significantly darker place than King imagined."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

0.5/3
"La niebla de Stephen King no es que termine por cruzar la fina línea que separa lo dramático de lo ridículo, es que coge carrerilla y la salta."  Off-Off-Critica  MalaBesta

3.5/4
"Touches upon the frightening fantasy of monsters hidden in the mist and the unsettling reality of monsters walking revealed among us."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"[N]ot only one of the best movies of 2007, it's one of the best horror movies ever made..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3/4
"Frank Darabont ditches the warm and fuzzies for out-and-out cynicism about mankind's capacity for goodness and altruism with The Mist."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

4/5
"Acerta ao compreender a natureza do texto original, que empregava o terror como uma mera ferramenta para analisar o comportamento de seus personagens e os dilemas morais e religiosos que os impelem uns contra os outros."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

4/5
"Darabont and King are more concerned with speculating how people deal with alien monsters laying siege to their town like so many Phish fans."  Film Threat  Pete Vonder Haar

4/5
"As a allegory of the human condition, it kind of comes up short but as a straightforward monster movie, it is a fairly effective work that should entertain buffs and neophytes alike."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

4/5
"Unusually dark and gritty, with ace B-movie writing and direction from Darabont and a collection of full-on performances from a gifted cast."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

B
"A great achievement in many ways, Darabont's biggest misstep is his final submission to the road more traveled."  Projection Booth  Rob Humanick

B+
"Suburban paranoia and primitive savagery conspire to create far deeper terrors than the creatures which emerge from the titular fog."  Flipside Movie Emporium  Rob Vaux

B+
"Certainly one of the best horror films of this century, and given the weakness of the genre, it may be one of the best of all time."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

4.5/5
"A big, meaty monster movie that's as entertaining for its Lovecraftian beasties as it is for its more "intellectual" aspirations."  FEARnet  Scott Weinberg

3.5/4
"the ending is black but the film is great"  sbs.is  Stefan Birgir Stefansson

"Somewhere along the way, [director Frank] Darabont just got lost in the fog, and he never found his way out."  ESplatter  Steve Biodrowski

4/10
"Startlingly bad...although a film whose concept could be described as "The Fog with Stephen King characters" really can't be called "startlingly" bad."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton

6/10
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OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh
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