Like the fog but easier to get off your windshield...

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 2007)

A mysterious mist surrounds a grocery store, and there are hostile, dangerous, and impossible things surrounding them outside, after a few days of either wrong or no decision, fanaticism rises from within...One of the better King stories and adaptations, considering Dream Catchers and Hearts In Atlantis. Though the development of the story and characters are better here, more fully developed, however it's undoing is it's not actually very scary. It could be scary, it's got all the potential for Lovecraft-like nightmarishness, but it remained as Jurassic Park by way of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", with a twist at the end, and it could have been more. The workings of faith versus the unknown are bold, especially in our current political climate, this theme holds up the story beyond a lot of recent horror, sf, and fantasy, it just only goes so far, the gas runs out, and it ends/offs itself, prematurely.