Gets under you skin and stays there...

Rating: 10/10 (5 December 2007)

Having read Steven King's The Myst when I was much younger I was eager to see this horror film come to life. I was more than pleasantly surprised to see the movie stayed very true to the novel and did not disappoint.
Although there is definitely some gore scenes, and I jumped several times in my seat, there is an eerie notice of lack of background music or forced fright which is all to common in today's horror films.
This story is not just about creatures that go bump in the night... but the true horror of fear, survival and human beings.
All too often "end of the world movies" show the better side of humans, the kindness and love shown by others. What if people didn't act the best in crisis? What if fear demands a solution better than compassion and love?
The Mist gets under your skin and makes you wonder the choices you would make in a life or death situation. What about the people around you? Those ideas making this film rather chilling, and you haven't even seen the crazy ideas Darabont and King have cooked up for you yet.