Taut suspense most of the way

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2009)

Giant insects and sundry other creatures, some of them entirely new species, pop up in an unnatural fog that settles over a small Maine town, and all hell breaks loose. A group of people are trapped in a grocery store when the fog overtakes the town, and some but not all of them do their best to survive. It doesn't work out too well for anybody. Lots of gory effects, some of it startling and vivid and some of it simply laughable. Pretty decent CGI on the majority of the creatures. The plot is a cousin to THE FOG, minus the pirates and hidden gold. A reasonable time killer with a downer of an ending, so beware. A stone-faced Tom Jane stars, and is surrounded by some familiar faces, including Jeff DeMunn and Marcia Gay Harden, who as a Bibe-spouting hag decides the fog represents the end of the world, and requires human sacrifice. As if the terrified folks in the store don't have enough to worry about.