loved it

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2007)

I was really surprised by "The Mist". The commitment is all there---every actor, every off-set hand gave everything they had---and the direction, pacing, writing, all of it works. It's so rare that a movie really scares you; horror films have turned into gore-fests because people have run out of ideas...they're not asking themselves what really scares them. But this movie is all about fear: it doesn't merely provoke it, it thinks about it, and reveals it as a threat perhaps more dangerous than the beasts outside the supermarket. After the movie my friends and I debated the meaning, recalled our favorite scenes and argued over the ending, which worked for me. This is a tale-around-the-campfire kind of movie that, at bottom, works because it's so much fun.