A mesmerizing film

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2007)

The Mist
Frank Darabount has done a great job directing two previous Stephen King films, The Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile. The Mist is no exception. It is definitively one creepy film.
After a freak electrical storm cripples a small coastal village in Maine the night before, artist David Drayton, his wife Stephanie and his five year old son, notice a strange mist emerging from the lake, which David shrugs off. They walk around their property surveying the damage and notice that a neighbor's tree has fallen on their boathouse, destroying it. David and Billy pay a visit to Brent Norton to discuss payment of the damages and the three decide to venture into town for supplies, leaving David's wife behind.
While there however, they notice that the mist has followed them into town, trapping the small group of people in a supermarket, including David, Billy and neighbor Brent Norton. For three days, they are terrorized by strange creatures, which could be the result of an experiment gone awry at a nearby military base.
This film sucks you in from the beginning to its unexpected and twisty ending. Marcia Gay Harden in her standout performance as Mrs. Carmody plays a religious fanatic who whips the desperate group into a frenzy. The rest of the excellent cast including Thomas Jane, Toby Jones and Andre Braugher do a fine job portraying a bunch of desperate people with nowhere to go. The story is based on the novella included in the anthology, Skeleton Crew. Worth seeing if just once.