The Mist (2007)

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Studio: Dimension Films

Rating: R

Release Date: Nov 21, 2007

Running Time: 125 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler, Jeffrey De Munn, Frances Sternhagen, Alexa Davalos, Nathan Gamble

director: Frank Darabont

The Mist

David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are things lurking in the mist--deadly, horrifying things--creatures not of this world. Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together, but is that possible, given human nature? As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist--or the ones inside the store, the human kind, the people that until now had been his friends and neighbors?

With his chilling, ultimately bleak adaptation of The Mist, writer/director Frank Darabont once again successfully channels Stephen King's twisted psyche on the big screen.

Story

More than just the frighteningly awful things that go bump in this particularly nasty fog, The Mist is really a morality play about how fear and paranoia feed on a panicked, scared group of people looking for some semblance of sanity about what's happening to them. Set in a small Maine town (where else in a King…