The Mist

This is a great little horror movie based on a short story by the one and only Stephen King. When an electrical storm leaves artist David Drayton’s house with a tree in the middle of his studio, he heads to town with his son and neighbor Brent Norton. While at the grocery store picking up the essentials a mist suddenly envelops the small Maine town—leaving most stranded. Most see the mist as nothing more than a byproduct of the previous nights electrical storm; until another local runs into the store screaming, “There’s something in the mist!” and claiming that something took his friend. As the mist prevails and hope for survival diminishes; blame is cast, mistrust abounds, sides are chosen and eventually people start to turn on one other.

Marcia Gay Harden’s performance was perfection. She is all too convincing as the overly religious Mrs. Carmody. She uses religion and the will of God in the worst way; to frighten people into her submission.

The ending of this movie offers no solace. We are left alone with our protagonist in a situation that is truly horrifying.


Missy Cinema Score: B