This movie earns no more than a 2 at most. Stupidity at its finest...

Rating: 1/10 (11 November 2015)

Yes, this movie is true horror. Not sure what the most horrifying aspect is, though. Is it the characters' stupidity or the writer's/director's? I'll leave that open.
So, a bit of simple logic: They would easily have survived if they weren't just that shockingly stupid... Let's compile a recipe for bad things happening in "The Mist": First, you have to ignore every warning there is and walk out into the mist to get your upper half separated from your lower half. Then you have to be stupid enough not to feel the tremendous amount of pain you experience by intense friction from a rope to your hands and just hold on to it (come on, he would have had blisters as big as his stupidity after that). Also, you do NOT IN ANY CASE separate the religious nut case scaring everyone from the rest of the group. It would just be impolite and we can't have that, can we? After that, what you do is absolutely NOT say anything having noticed that the insect-like creatures are drawn to the light while EVERYBODY is lighting every available lamp and lantern... Well, why would you? Lastly, after emptying the whole tank of a car getting away you just shoot everyone into the head because it is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to get out of the car and continue on foot when everybody is still unharmed. So after mixing these ingredients and ingesting the whole thing all that's left is to go puke and forget about it as quickly as you can.
Luckily, the boy died young and didn't have to endure the stupidity of that town any longer. Thank god Darabont got it right with The Walking Dead in the end. Not even the stupid characters from this movie would be able to ruin that show.