This film seems to get a lot of flak, and I'm not sure why. The ending is kind of bleh, but as a whole, The Mist is a very satisfying horror film.
The characters are nothing to write home about, but they're very believable, very organic, and I fear for them one way or another. The atmosphere is deeply unsettling, rarely venturing beyond a creepy fog and a series of rapidly dying buildings.
My favorite part of this movie is the wide menagerie of monsters we get. Fang-tentacled horrors, grinning, acid-webbing spiders, swarms of snake-eyed wasps, four-winged pterosaurs, gargantuan mantids, and a kaiju for good measure. If you love monsters, give this movie a look.
The story is fairly straightforward. A horrific force outside forces people to hole up in a convenience store and the looming death before them escalates, driving those inside further and further from sanity, until they're willing to try anything to survive.
The shrieking religious woman's preachings are clearly insane, but they're always just close enough to reality to make sense to those around her. It's an interesting way to approach this, as she's clearly insane, but the people around her slowly grow more and more desperate, until they're willing to try anything. It's a rather well done take on the human condition in times of crisis.
A common criticism of this movie is that this is too unbelievable. That the shrieking woman is a strawman for religious people, and that it's not subtle enough. I find this ironic, given how completely the film's subtlety is flying over their heads. Humans are capable of insane things, and the likelihood of such grows the more desperate we grow. You can watch and say "Well *I* would never do that!" but that doesn't guarantee you wouldn't, or that those around you wouldn't.
It's not world-shaking though. Such studies of the human condition have been done before. But that doesn't mean they can't still be entertaining. And this film is enjoyable enough to justify reusing that theme.
The ending is controversial. The moments leading up to it are delightfully creepy and unsettling, and up until the last seconds, it's just wonderful. Then the 'punchline' hits and you just feel ill. Some people like this, some don't. Personally, I'd have them all give in to the madness and become spider monsters. But that's me.
Literature Creepy and awesome, if you don't mind the ending
This film seems to get a lot of flak, and I'm not sure why. The ending is kind of bleh, but as a whole, The Mist is a very satisfying horror film. The characters are nothing to write home about, but they're very believable, very organic, and I fear for them one way or another. The atmosphere is deeply unsettling, rarely venturing beyond a creepy fog and a series of rapidly dying buildings.
My favorite part of this movie is the wide menagerie of monsters we get. Fang-tentacled horrors, grinning, acid-webbing spiders, swarms of snake-eyed wasps, four-winged pterosaurs, gargantuan mantids, and a kaiju for good measure. If you love monsters, give this movie a look.
The story is fairly straightforward. A horrific force outside forces people to hole up in a convenience store and the looming death before them escalates, driving those inside further and further from sanity, until they're willing to try anything to survive.
The shrieking religious woman's preachings are clearly insane, but they're always just close enough to reality to make sense to those around her. It's an interesting way to approach this, as she's clearly insane, but the people around her slowly grow more and more desperate, until they're willing to try anything. It's a rather well done take on the human condition in times of crisis.
A common criticism of this movie is that this is too unbelievable. That the shrieking woman is a strawman for religious people, and that it's not subtle enough. I find this ironic, given how completely the film's subtlety is flying over their heads. Humans are capable of insane things, and the likelihood of such grows the more desperate we grow. You can watch and say "Well *I* would never do that!" but that doesn't guarantee you wouldn't, or that those around you wouldn't.
It's not world-shaking though. Such studies of the human condition have been done before. But that doesn't mean they can't still be entertaining. And this film is enjoyable enough to justify reusing that theme.
The ending is controversial. The moments leading up to it are delightfully creepy and unsettling, and up until the last seconds, it's just wonderful. Then the 'punchline' hits and you just feel ill. Some people like this, some don't. Personally, I'd have them all give in to the madness and become spider monsters. But that's me.