The Mist (2007)
For the students of SBBU Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Jones Situation normal: all fogged up A mysterious fog which swamps a small town, forcing the inhabitants to take shelter inthe local supermarket. . Director Frank Darabont made his first out-and-out horror movie named THE MIST with this bleak, pointed adaptation of King’s novella about a mysterious fog which swamps a small town, forcing the inhabitants to take shelter in the local supermarket. It’s a ferociously modern drama, picking apart the political and social threads which just about held America together under the Bush administration. Religious dogma, political division and – finally and devastatingly – military intervention all go under Darabont’s shakeycam microscope, resulting in perhaps the most intelligent, compelling and heartbreaking horror movie of the century so far. Having tackled Stephen King twice already – in ‘ The Shawshank Redempt...