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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: 88% Fresh
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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
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
"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
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
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
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