Can't Wait for the DVD

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2008)

I saw this movie twice when it was in the theaters, and now can't wait for the DVD to be released. I waited over two decades for King's story The Mist to be filmed. I read the story often, usually during heat waves in summer. It had the easy, vivid writing style of books like Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, and not as dense as some of King's other books. When I heard a movie version had finally been made, I feared it would be turned into a parody, filled with a teenage cast. Well, I was amazed at the production. It's an old fashioned monster movie made for adults. It captured the story quite well, although the ending was a double shock, and better than the novella's ending. I don't understand why so many Christians seem upset. The Mrs. Carmody character never mentions Jesus or even the Bible! She's more like a demented new-age mystic. I think the Christians are unduly paranoid. "Imps from hell! Pallid horrors!" Indeed! This movie is just a well done monster movie about an absurd series of events and how people might realistically react to them. Fun and scary!