What I thought would be a campy horror film actually turned out to be a great movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2011)

The Mist, for some reason, has a reputation of being a love/hate. Some people hate it and some don't. Personally, I love it. The plot is that a mysterious mist is covering up most of this small town and everybody hides out in a super market to try and survive. Now this is what made the movie work for me; it's like Night of the Living Dead, it's not about the monsters outside the super market it's about how people react to a situation like this. But unlike Night of the Living Dead where the zombies are all trying to get into the house, the monsters in the film don't try to get into the store because they're not that smart, they're just mutated animals. The acting is mixed in my opinion but the suspense is unbelievable. The special effects aren't anything special but that doesn't matter in a story like this. Marcia Gay Harden plays a religious nut who turns everybody in the store against the protagonist, and you just want to see her get chomped into oblivion! And then of course there's that ending, of course I'm not going to spoil it but it's one of the most sadistic, evil, depressing, mean, hateful, biggest slaps in the face endings ever. I'll leave it at that. But that doesn't matter, I enjoyed this movie from beginning to end and I never thought that it was stupid or lame. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it. Not to be confused with John Carpenter's The Fog.