The best horror film of 2007-heck, in YEARS

Rating: 9/10 (23 November 2007)

I could go on and on, but I'll keep it simple. The Mist centers around a grocery store full of normal citizens shopping for supplies after a devastating storm who are forced to come face to face with unimaginable terror when a strange, unnaturally thick fog rolls in, carrying...things. Slimy, tentacled things. Bugs the size of Rottweilers. Creatures as tall as mountains peaks. Prehistoric-looking birds. Creatures who are trying to get inside. But you may find that the scariest thing in the film are not the inexplicable creatures themselves, but the behavior of the average Joes thrown into a situation beyond their comprehension. You'll see what happens when a crowd of terrified people are stuffed together in one store, thrown in the dark, with all the accepted norms thrown out the window. Minds will snap. An unhinged religious fanatic's rantings and ravings about a blood sacrifice bringing everything back to normal will at first be ignored...and then seem to make more and more sense. People will turn on each other and atrocities will be committed...and that's just the humans.
There are things out there. Big things. And the entire front of the store is plate glass.
The best horror film in years, with one of the most shocking endings you'll ever see. Even better than 1408. Go see it.