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It’s good sometimes to be proven wrong. I’m definitely impressed with THE MIST. I thought it was going to be a copycat of the movie The Fog, but it’s nothing like that. I’ve never read any of Stephen King’s novellas or stories but this movie suddenly creates… a curiosity in me and maybe I’ll pick up the next Stephen King’s book I see at Barnes & Nobles.

A small town in Maine engulfed in thick mist and a bunch of people are trapped inside local grocery store only to discover that the mist surrounding them contains creepy creatures ready to attack. The people turn against each other and someone has to figure a way out of the situation before it’s too late.

To me, and you might have a different take on it, this film is about human behaviors, it’s more psychological than it is horror. How it would be interesting to see what would happen if you gather a group of people in one place and leave them in the dark.
The master of terror give us a view of what fear can do to people, of what fear can do to a person when he or she gets cornered.

Director/writer Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) carefully adapted to the screen each character to show us the changes that could happen over a period of time when all senses of freedom and hope are stripped away.
From the religious bigot to the coward soldiers who decide to take the easy way out, the audiences can study even from the character who seems to be the strongest or the leader but winds up making the mistake which he’ll regret for the rest of his life and all because fear gets the better of him.

The special effects look believable, the things that those freaky monsters can do are downright ugly and lethal. Some scenes remind you a lot of the movie Alien and the movie Arachnophobia.
I think THE MIST is a brilliantly gripping and twisted movie and it would be a cool subject for discussion in college classrooms.

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