A good film in the long list of mediocre Stephen King films.

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2011)

The first thing that must be said about this movie are three little words, Marcia Gay Harden! She is phenomenal! Her performance in this movie is probably the best I have ever seen her. Not very often does a supporting character out shine every other cast member in a film and that is exactly what she does in this movie.
So I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that in recent years the film adapted from Stephen King novels have been extremely underwhelming, so it's good to see one that hits the mark. The story is adapted from a novella about a small town that is overtaken by a mysterious fog that inhabits supernatural beings, who I might say are chilling.
Thomas Jane is great as usual as the leader of a group of people who escape from the mist in a local supermarket. The film is primarily about the must and what horror it has brought to the town but there's another element if this film which is great, the human instinct to turn against each other in stressful situation, this is when Marcia Gay Harden really starts to shine, her character, the psychotic and super religious Mrs Carmody is equally as terrifying as the beings that inhabit the mist.
The production of The Mist is excellent, the scenes where the locals venture out of the supermarket into the mist is so edge of your seat stuff. Excellent.
It's great to see a horror film that doesn't rely on blood and guts to produce the scares... A+