Did Frank Darabont's simple-minded twin brother hide in "The Mist"?

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 2019)

He probably dragged his more talented brother into the fog and took over his place in the director's chair. Otherwise, I would have to come to terms with the fact that the same person who made "The Shawshank Redemption" directed this train wreck.
What starts with a promising - although not very innovative - setting for a horror flick, soon shows to be a complete face palm of a movie (2 out of 10 stars).
All the ingredients for a decent horror movie are there in theory: remote town, confined location, diffuse outside threat of unknown origin, random group of neighbours and strangers locked in together. However, they just do not come together. In my opinion, the blame for this lies with the script and the direction, each credited with half of the work. The characters are all cardboard and either completely under-developed or way over the top. Their behaviour is just non-sensical and at times completely random. The CGI is insanely bad (even for a 2007 medium budgeted film). The monster-design is just laughable and uncreative (tentacles, bugs, spiders....yawn!). The acting (indlcuding the lead character) is probably the worst, I have seen all year. The dialog and direction are so heavy-handed, it feels like a school's play.
I read in some professional reviews that the movie was an "important" allegory on real-life, that the ending was "daring" and "the most shocking in a decade" etc. These critics just made me laugh in disbelief.
***Spoilers ahead***
A non-exhaustive, random list of all the stupidities:
1. At times, people are immediately torn to shreds, as soon as the fog surrounds them. When it is convenient to the story, however, large groups of people can venture out into the mist without being harassed for ages, even when they are screaming and making noises.
2. Why would the guys (in particular the litigator neighbour and his followers) not believe that it is dangerous to go outside, when there are obvious signs (such as the guy who came running, bleeding and in panic, who had just lost his friend, or later the severed tentacle). The people telling them, have clearly no sane reasons for not telling the truth.
3. Why would anyone want to try and go outside, after they have seen what happens if you do?? In the first supermarket scene, NO ONE wants to go with the woman who wants to see her kids, because they all notice that something is wrong out there. Then, suddenly, they all want to go. (This woman, btw, is seen in the last seconds of the movie to be still alive, which is just not plausible at all.)
4. The whole movie builds around the premise that A FULL GLASS FRONT of several hundred square meters is an insurmountable obstacle for these monsters. But wait, the monsters tried like crazy to bang in the garage door in the back... Give me a break. After the flying baby-elephant-birds get in by accident, why would the monsters not charge a full-blown attack on the windows? IN particular, as they seem to be attracted to light and everybody is giving their best effort to hold every available light source in the windows all the time.
5. The main character and his friends try everything to keep people from going outside as certain death awaits you there. Then, however, suddenly they decide that they need to urgently go outside themselves. SEVERAL TIMES. Right, when it is convenient for the plot.
6. Did I mention the bad acting yet? And the dialog?
7. The whole idea of men actually being the real monsters is so in your face and cheap, I wanted to vomit.
8. People change their minds and sides in this movie like their underwear. E.g. the sort of retarded guy with the baseball cap. One second, he is with the reasonable crowd, trying to talk sense into people and stop them from getting killed. Then suddenly, he is with the religious lunatics, demanding the boy as human sacrifice?!?
9. Speaking of the religious lunatics. This whole storyline is just plain stupid and too broadly worn. Clearly, this Misses Jesus is not in her right mind. Still, scene after - painfully boring - scene, they let her preach and continue to spread her rubbish. Everybody just makes fun of her at first. In the end, however, she has gathered a huge cult following (where did all these people come from, btw?) who mercilessly kill the soldier and are even willing to sacrifice a boy!!
10. The two soldiers committing suicide is just so random.
11. Why do the spiders only come out around 15 minutes after the search party enter and roam the whole pharmacy? Why are the spiders so slow?
12. Why do some outside parts (like their house, the school bus) look like they have been in the fog forever, covered in cobwebs, after a few days, while the rest of the world looks normal?
13. In the most ridiculous scene: Why does he not take one step out of the car and instead tries to reach the gun forever by only stretching his arms??
14. Why didn't they bother to check the fuel gauge one single time? How did they manage to drive a car without accident in such thick fog?
15. THE ENDING: So, after the fuel has "suddenly" run out (which they could have easily prevented), they decide to commit suicide within a matter of minutes. After before, they have endured all the craziness at the super market for days. And the main guy did everything he could to survive and protect his son. Within a minute, the hero shoots them all, including his own son, without second thoughts or further hesitation. Then, he just starts screaming like a maniac. And within, at the most, one more minute, the whole mist suddenly clears off and there are hundreds of military everywhere. Who, by the way, do not seem to take notice of him.