Best horror without a lot of gore

Rating: 8/10 (17 January 2009)

This is one of the best horror-movie I've seen in years. Maybe I'm biased, because I like most Stephen King stories. But this movie is in my best-horror-movies-without-a-lot-of-gore list along with "Needful Things" (also a Stephen King story), "The Ring" (the original Japanese version) and "Cube". Most of these movies deal with real horror: human behaviour. What will people do in certain situations? Before I go on I want to state that I also like horror with a little more gore, like "Saw" for example.
"The Mist" tells us how far people will go when they find themselves in a situation that is scary and/or confusing. I think that the group of people in the movie is a reflection of today's society and that King is trying to show us what we might do when the world is really going to hell and society falls apart. I used "might" and not "will" because not everybody will react the same, but this is a pretty believable scenario (the reaction part, not the monsters in the mist part) and it teaches us that sometimes it's better to act according to instinct and feeling, like the woman in the beginning of the movie.
I didn't give it a 10/10, because the special effects look cheap at some times, but luckily there aren't many scenes that have special effects. The ending is great, but the reason for it to end this way should have been written better.
If you like horror-movies where you have to leave your brain turned on, than, check out "The Mist", else stick with "Saw".