Awful

Rating: 1/10 (12 March 2016)

Awful film - who knows why this still has such a high rating on IMDb. Maybe some die-hard Stephen King fans wrote the positive reviews. I'm certainly not about to read a single Stephen King novel or novella based on this and I'm compelled to rate and review to stop someone else making the same mistake that I did in thinking that a rating of over 7 is generally worth a watch.
The basic premise is a bunch of people are holed up together while bizarre and dangerous creatures roam outside in the mist. The CGI is terrible (I know it was a few years back but surely there was some decent CGI around in 2007?!), the plot has no consistency - various different creatures are seen and it's hard to believe the one first seen just doesn't crop up at all later - the explanation for where this mist and the creatures have come from is terrible, barely elaborated on, with little imagination evident and the ending, for me, left a lot to be desired. Usually I love horror and I'm not adverse to sci-fi, and admittedly this had jumpy bits and gory bits; however, there were not enough believable scary moments (better CGI and special effects would have helped with this) and not enough character formation and decent dialogue to make it a decent drama.
There was scope for a potentially meaningful social comment on how humans change under stress and survive adversity but it is totally spoiled by the fact that it's dominated by a religious fanatic, so in my opinion all it serves to do is fuel stereotypical and negative attitudes towards religion. There's a terrible element of romance at one point, it's so predictable and between 2 characters who you haven't yet started to really care about, and then one of them dies almost immediately!
Having said all that, I did watch it 'til the end. I'm terribly curious.