Lovecraftian Stephen King Adaptation Id Swerved...

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2015)

...and really shouldn't have.
On 1st impression the Mist is one of those turgid modern day horrors that seem to be green-lit by focus groups. Full of wide eyed idiots hiding from Zombies and monsters and blah blah blah. It isn't, and after seeing it listed on Film Four's best horrors of the 21st century & finding out its another Frank Darabont King adaptation -I gave it a whirl. A familiar Night of the Living Dead, trapped inside scenario delivers scares and huge amounts of tension as well as brilliantly showing the human villains that always seem to come to the fore. The bleak and eerily Lovecraftian ending is an especially great pay off.
Don't be put off like I was. Find out whats really come down in the Mist from the mountains.