Love it or Hate it, the film sticks with you.

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2008)

I've labeled this to contain spoilers, though I will make a point to try not to.
To begin, I have not read the novella in which the movie was based. I don't know if anything was left out, or added. What I can say is that from the moment they enter town, I was gripped. There was a level of human drama that not that many movies, at least as far as creature-features go, achieve. Almost immediately I began to feel the sense of worry that Drayton had for his wife. Even the brief scene with the woman worried about her children. With so little background on the characters, you could already begin to empathize with them.
The CGI used for the creatures was well done, though was very particularly noticeable in some scenes more than others. But overall, quite good. Oddly enough, some of the flying creatures movements looked more stop-animation that CGI.
I think the only point in the story that really killed it for me was the very brief description of where the creatures and mist came from. I liked the idea, at least it wasn't exactly supernatural, but the way it was delivered was just really 1950's B-Movie to me. I think even just some rewording of it would have helped. Granted the character delivering the information was supposed to be unaware of the details, but still it just kind of made everything after that a little 'cheesy' for me.
The ending was certainly good, but admittedly it wasn't exactly unexpected. By time they were in the car, I figured there two possible endings. That was one of them. I think the story can be summarized as a mixture of The Lord of the Flies and The Twilight Zone.
As I mentioned it was hard for me to take it too seriously after the origin was revealed and the fact that the end was a bit predictable didn't help. That said, I still find myself thinking about the movie. The ending, the characters, the situation; everything. I find myself replaying a lot of the scenes over in my head. I think that is was made it a very successful film to me.