What does "Mist" really mean ?

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2008)

Before I watch this movie, I expected to see a normal "Stephen King" horror movie - which I am a big fan of him by the way -, as I expected to see some devils and some good people fighting along the movie, but I really shocked when I discovered how deep this movie is !! From my point of view, this movie is not talking about the mist that came from another world full with creepy monsters and so on, but it is about the mist in people's minds, and how people are ready to get rid if each other because of a wrong idea they might have, look at "Mrs. Carmody" and her wrong understanding of religion make her ready to sacrifice any one because of a silly idea that the GOD want us to sacrifice with blood - this remind me with the old civilizations -, and the biggest problem that almost all the trapped people believed her because just they can't even think for a solution for this situation so they only take the easy and existing one, and they start killing people "Carmody" hates !! I also get surprised when "Drayton" gave up on the last minute before the mist reveals, if he just wait only 5 more minutes ... he would live happy ever after, but he reached a point that he don't want the mist's creatures attack his own kid, so he killed him !! Overall, I describe this movie - for me - as the second best movie by "Stephen King" directly after "Needful Things" which also is a great movie about people just hate each other and they only need a spark to start killing each other ...