excellent!

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2014)

When I first watched The Mist, it was shortly after its 2007 release. Little did I know that the name Frank Darabont would soon become much more famous. So it is no surprise that the creator of The Walking Dead would cast three familiar faces in The Mist, those being Melissa McBride, Laurie Holden, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Watching The Mist a second time allowed me to appreciate solid character and plot development, something both unusual and refreshing in a horror movie. We experience the humanity, pain, and panic of a bunch of people in a small northeastern town thrown together by a supernatural creature which is both frightening and deadly. Each of the characters respond differently, some not believing while others lose rationality, but all are forced to confront separate developing factions from within, while trying to survive the attacking monster from outside.
Kudos to the actors whose characters represent each end of the behavioral spectrum: Toby Jones, whose character Ollie is the voice of reason while trying to control chaos, and Marcia Gay Harden, whose character Mrs. Carmody goes off the deep end with a distorted view of The Old Testament's form of punishment for the sins of the people. Add to that the main character of David Drayton, played by Thomas Jane, who simply wants to save his son from this unspeakable horror. Where David Drayton winds up at the end of the movie was a shocking twist, and a great addition to a very well done horror flick.