After "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Line", before the highly waited "The Long Walk", Frank Darabont directed a new story of Stephen King, "The Mist", with a consumed talent, becomming the alter-ego on the screen of the master of horror. This time, the movie is more fantastic and looks like the old horror B movies from the 70's.
In a small United States town, David Drayton and his son are trapped in a supermarket with other clients, trapped by thick fog that envelops the entire region (the world?). This freaky mist seems to eat the few who dare to go in here. Darabont sign here a terrifying movie, not advisable for claustrophobic people. The camera is stuck with them, insulation, allowing the viewer to share their fears, their stress, their horrible feeling of isolation and helplessness in face of a phenomenon that exceed, let the viewer even enter the store to live each heartbeat of people trapped. If the trailer suggest a basic story of monsters coming from who knows where, they are quite secondary, the true threat comes from customers in the store. This desperate situation reveals weaknesses and behaviour of men in moments of panic and misunderstanding, the low IQ of crowds and their strong opening to the suggestion even though it's sometimes equally incredible than the present situation. Besides the horror film we can finds a troubling sociological reflection even frightening and quite unhealthy.
The greatest strength of the film is the final scene, disturbing, shocking and surprising at the same time, bathed in an absolute nihilism. This monstrous final, not in the novel but approved by King, is among those who haunt long after the end of the movie while the viewer reflect on the future of the human race.
In a small United States town, David Drayton and his son are trapped in a supermarket with other clients, trapped by thick fog that envelops the entire region (the world?). This freaky mist seems to eat the few who dare to go in here. Darabont sign here a terrifying movie, not advisable for claustrophobic people. The camera is stuck with them, insulation, allowing the viewer to share their fears, their stress, their horrible feeling of isolation and helplessness in face of a phenomenon that exceed, let the viewer even enter the store to live each heartbeat of people trapped. If the trailer suggest a basic story of monsters coming from who knows where, they are quite secondary, the true threat comes from customers in the store. This desperate situation reveals weaknesses and behaviour of men in moments of panic and misunderstanding, the low IQ of crowds and their strong opening to the suggestion even though it's sometimes equally incredible than the present situation. Besides the horror film we can finds a troubling sociological reflection even frightening and quite unhealthy.
The greatest strength of the film is the final scene, disturbing, shocking and surprising at the same time, bathed in an absolute nihilism. This monstrous final, not in the novel but approved by King, is among those who haunt long after the end of the movie while the viewer reflect on the future of the human race.
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