The Mist reviews (2008)

The Mist details

Formats:	15 DVD, Blu-ray
Starring:	Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, William Sadler, Alexa Davalos, Chris Owen, Nathan Gamble, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, Andre Braugher, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director:	Frank Darabont
Genres:	Horror, Thriller - Psychological
Studio:	MOMENTUM PICTURES
Collections:	100 Hot Hits

Name	Discs
The Mist	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	2 hours 7 minutes
Rental release:	10 Nov 2008
Main languages:	English

Name	Discs
The Mist	15 Feature
The Mist - Black & White Version - Blu-ray	15 Bonus

Blu-ray Information

Run time:	2 hours 2 minutes
Rental release:	10 Nov 2008
Main languages:	English

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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLM

A strange, otherworldly mist traps a large group of terrified townspeople in this terrifying horror flick...
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Frankie is in a bad mood....

By hunkydomste (48 reviews) from Liverpool , 11 Jul 2008

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If you enjoyed Frank Darabont's optimism drenched Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile, you might want to think twice before booking your tickets for his latest Stephen King offering.

Where there was alliance in Shawshank, there is deep discordia and fraction in The Mist. No cute little mice or the eventual triumph of Good here, instead you have limb chopping monsters and the film's ultimate evil nasty - Marcia Gay Harden, who excells and will have your skin crawling faster than the arachnoids habitating in the strange mist settling over a (surprise, surprise) sleepy little town.

If you want dumbed down slash horror, you will be disappointed. At a meaty 2 and a bit hours, this is much more of a pitch of human evil against otherworldly monsters, with an almost stage like feel, some great performances and a mostly complete absence of the light at the end of the tunnel.... unless you count seeing the flashlight coming towards you that belongs to someone running to save his limbs and life.

Marvellously bleak.
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Too rubbish to describe

By a customer , 07 May 2013

Only managed 40 minutes of this film, truly dreadful. The story line seemed dull and the graphics were dire... Can't comment on how it finished as it didn't hold my attention for long enough... POOP
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worth a watch

By Cambridgeshire (3 reviews) , 22 Apr 2013

It was a fairly good film but I couldn't help watching it and counting how many people have been in TWD. OK,it was only two or three but I kept getting confused about what I was watching ;)
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Boring and predictable

By Sausage42 (46 reviews) , 03 Apr 2013

I'm usually a fan of bad horror films but I found this one to be boring and predictable. The characters are all unlikable and do stupid things all the time. The situation of a group of disparate people trapped by the encroaching fog could have been used to excellent effect to build tension and genuine sympathy for the characters but just degenerated into violence and yelling as these films predictably do. Even the twist at the end was somewhat pointless as by that point you really don't care how it ends just as long as it does end.
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AVOID! So bad...

By a customer , 29 Mar 2013

Utter rubbish from start to finish. I laughed out loud all the way through. Is it meant to be a comedy? It is genuinely awful. Has the feel of a straight to video film of the 1980s. No idea why people like it. Please do not bother unless you like watching real rubbish for a laugh.
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Unbelievably it's better than the book!

By KingFan (15 reviews) , 25 Mar 2013

I read this Steven King novelette just before the movie came out. The book kept me gripped until the last page but King didn't give it a great ending. Surprisingly the movie did a better job. The director managed to capture exactly what Stephen King had written. Visually, the film looked exactly as I had pictured it in my head when reading it. As for the ending, WOW. Maybe folks who haven't read the book will guess the films' ending but I didn't and it stuck with me for a long time after the movie was over. Great movie that will shake your emotions.
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