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Genres:
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Horror /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Frank Darabont
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Actors:
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Alexa Davalos,
Nathan Gamble,
Sam Witwer,
Robert C. Treveiler,
Melissa Suzanne McBride,
Thomas Jane,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Laurie Holden,
Andre Braugher,
Toby Jones,
William Sadler,
Jeffrey DeMunn,
Frances Sternhagen,
Chris Owen,
David Jensen
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)184.5
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Plot Summary:
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After a strong rant in the Maine space, the shire artist Dave Drayton drives from his house nearby the lake to the supermarket with his son Billy and his arrogant neighbor, the lawyer Brent Norton, to get supplies. Along their accede, they see a heavy fog and later, military convoys, police and firefighter trucks, ambulances heading toward it. While in the supermarket, a confused bleeding local arrives crying that there is something alive in the drizzle and the forewoman closes the entrance door while the chore is encased close to the mist. When David, another client and two employees go to t... he fail of the rely on to start the generator, they get the back-door and the cashier Norm (Chris Owen) is dominance and dragged next to bloodthirsty tentacles. David and the two survivors be successful to concentrated the loading door, and when they tell the people what happened, Brent does not hopes on on his words and believes it is a prank and the Demigod-fearing woman Mrs. Carmody preaches the Apocalypse and that she is the container of Lord on Sod. Sooner the union discovers that they are under box of blood thirsty creatures from another dimension that accept reached our planet as a consequence a window open beside a failed military research. Further, the lunatic Mrs. Carmody has uncountable followers and is fitting harmful and threatening in her speeches. Without surrogate, a small league leaded past David decides to take the betide to diversion from the supermarket and reach his jalopy, hoping to get out of the befog.
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Mist, The
Michael Phillips
Good and creepy, The Mist comes from a Stephen King novella and is more the shape, size and quality of the recent 1408, likewise taken from a King story, than anything in the persistently fashionable charnel house inhabited by the Saw and Hostel franchises.
People get torn apart and beset by monsters in The Mist but not enough, I'm guessing, for the Saw folk, who prefer grinding realism to the supernatural. On the other hand, 1408 exceeded box office expectations. It would be heartening if this one does too, though the bleakest ending this side of The Vanishing may well curtail the masses.
Director Frank Darabont adapts King's story, which means one thing straight off: The film takes its time. Darabont directed The Shawshank Redempti...
Mist, The
Trapped in a supermarket by a mysterious fog, a group of ordinary people come under threat from monstrous creatures - and their own prejudice and fear. A tense adaptation of a Stephen King horror story, from the writer-director of The Shawshank Redemption
Any viewers of The Mist expecting a slice of hard-edged but traditional Hollywood storytelling in the manner of Frank Darabont's other Stephen King adaptations should prepare for a surprise. He may have set down a very deliberate directorial style in The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile (as well as in his unsuccessful 2001 Jim Carrey drama The Majestic), but here Darabont has embraced an aggressively different and much grittier approach to filmmaking.
It's worth remembering that he got his f...
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