The Mist is a masterpiece of horror filmmaking. Hauntingly atmospheric and yet full of action, deeply thematic and with logical characters you root for. The Mist by celebrated director Frank Darabond is a testimony that a well made horror film is as good as any. Thomas Jane plays an everyday man trapped in a small town's shopping mall as their entire world is engulfed in a white mist on normal morning. Adding to the woes is that the mist contain vicious other realm creatures- the stuff of your nightmares. This is a great film and you should watch this whether you like Horror or not.

There are a few important warnings I have about this film. It's incredibly violent and at times pretty gross...so exercise caution before watching it. Additionally, the character Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden) will likely offend many religious people. The story is set in a New England town. A weird mist descends on the village and a group of people are trapped inside a grocery store. When a teen tries running from the store to get help, he's torn apart by a multi-tentacled monster....but only a few people see this happen. A Some of the rest of them don't believe the story about the tentacle monster in the mist and make a run for it...and disappear. Soon, regardless of whether the rest of them believe or not, they believe SOMETHING god-awful has occurred....and gigantic evil bugs begin attacking. And, it only gets worse...thanks to human nature which takes an awful situation and makes it so much worse....including a weirdo religious nut who VERY quickly (too quickly) develops a cult-like following. What's next? It only gets much worser!I like the angle about human nature tearing the group of people apart...this is the best aspect of the movie in my opinion. However, a few of the characters (particularly the amazingly unsubtle Mrs. Carmody) are ridiculous and over-the-top. Subtle, it sure isn't! Additionally, after a while I simply got tired of seeing the violence and ugliness...especially since it goes on for more than two hours. I must admit, this is NOT the sort of picture I normally watch....and it's very likely others might enjoy (?) the film more than I did. Thoroughly unpleasant, albeit a bit thought-provoking when it comes to folks reactions to the menaces.

I honestly don't know why this movie has good ratings. This movie is filled with poorly written characters, bad acting, and moments that will make you literally laugh out loud because of the ridiculousness.SPOILERS BELOWFirst, Drayton as a character is beyond illogical. He constantly and repeatedly abandons his only child in order to play the hero. He willingly gives his child over to absolute and complete strangers. Towards the end we get a half hearted "sorry" from him but they idea that a father would abandon their child constantly when in a disaster scenario is ridiculous unless Drayton is a sociopathic character. He also never seems to care at all about his wife who is all alone. He makes a break for her at the end but that's the first we see him care about her.There is little to no support for the reactions of the characters. They all decide that the mist is evil and shouldn't be entered well before anything bad happens to prove that they shouldn't enter. Basically a bunch of shoppers just freak out over some fog. They happen to be correct but until multiple bodies pilled up, any normal human would not react how they did.Most of the characters break out in rash and illogicao anger to manufacture drama. Maybe the book is good but don't waste your time with this film. Incredibly poorly written and a laughable "horror" movie

From the start i thought this was good, but in the midpoint it started talking that jesus is our saviour and it went downhill from that point.