Review – The Mist

Though Frank Darabont has had some success with Stephen King’s non-horror work (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) in the past, this time he’s taking on a novella from squarely inside the genre. The result is fairly good. Thomas Jane does a solid job as a man who gets stuck in a grocery store when the whole outside world turns into a misty nightmare. To be sure, the story strains credulity a bit. Why is it that the monsters can’t find victims unless they’re dumb enough to go outdoors? Why do they lose interest in the people they kill? Aren’t they hungry? And why do fundamentalist Christians turn out to be even worse than Lovecraftian monstrosities? The creatures themselves are cool except when they get too much light on them. The end has to be one of the all-time worst bummers ever churned out by Hollywood, but otherwise this is well above the average for King movies. Worth seeing