Good King horror. At last.

Rating: 9/10 (11 July 2008)

I've lost faith in King adaptations. Most of them are so ridiculous I wanna cry. There are however notable exceptions and The Mist is one of them. It's not that the Stephen King overthetopness is not there, it is the character development that makes this so different, not only to other King horror movies but to most contemporary thriller/horror/sci-fi as well. I don't want to spoil the ending, I would just want to say that comments about happy and sad endings are always so subjective that it becomes ridiculous to judge a movie on whether it has a happy or a nihilistic, miserable one. Is it clever? Does it work? I think these are more relevant questions and in this movie, the end WORKS. One last thing: Interpreting Stephen King has many levels. It's very difficult to show this in a movie, but this one succeeds. 100%.