Walked out at the 45 minute mark

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2007)

Horror is my favorite genre of film. I had been looking forward to this film for months and must say this is the first film I have ever walked out on (the theater refunded my money thank goodness!). Terrible acting, cliché-ridden,inane dialog, and special effects that would have looked cheesy in 1985 completely ruined the experience adapted from a stellar novella. It appeared that director Frank Darabont decided not to update the dialog from the book, making seemingly ever line of dialog feel fake and dated. Not only did the film show the monsters too soon, but it showed too much revealing the shoestring budget the film was produced on. Seriously, half the theater laughed when the "squid" showed up in the first half hour. The plot was non existent, making the film seem as if it was adapted from a play ( most of the film takes place in a drab supermarket) I kept hoping things would get better but after Marcia Gay Harden's 3rd over the top "end of days" speech I had enough. One of the worst films of all time.