Lost in the mist

Rating: 4/10 (3 June 2013)

I inadvertently bumped into this movie because I was told that it possessed the reminiscent mood of classic Lovecraft's stories. This film is essentially a pastiche of a sequence of Hitchcock's "The Birds" with a group of people trapped and under attack by a supernatural force. This film has the eternal cliché of people trapped in places like supermarkets and shops, to avoid explanations as where the bathroom is, or where we will find food and water.
This film aims to honor the great John Carpenter and because of its inefficiency to establish a convincing rhythm, it abuses of unnecessary, stumbling fade outs. This movie spends five or ten minutes of small talk between characters that soon after, are slaughtered , disemboweled by stupid fanatics or "bitten by mosquitoes from hell" and make the audience wonder "Why you spent time telling this particular story?" To create a "realistic" mood and to build a screenplay with the appropriate"density"? The construction of characters should be a natural and fluid process for the development of the script, not a ridiculous and vulgar parenthesis that leads straight to nothing (or the grave). Speaking of the grave, the director, near the end, must be thought "What can I possibly create for this thing now, not to be remembered merely as a bad horror and suspense movie?" Then he had the most brilliant idea - to create the most manipulative and stupid end imaginable, comparable only to that one, where the character wakes up to realize it was all a dream. Many supposedly well educated people (by the internet), take this kind of thing seriously and think this ridiculous form of "shock treatment" is somehow memorable. It is just as memorable as an example for writers to analyze the subject "how to kick everything into space when nothing goes right." The use of fog is obviously a way to reduce the costs of ridiculous CGI monsters. With no doubt, Stephen King is the ultimate synonymous of silly horror books and movies, with the exception of "The Shinning", because Stanley Kubrick was able to transform anything into gold .