STEPHEN KING’S THE MIST (2007) - PREVIEW 

Stephen King's The Mist (2007)

Starring: Thomas Jane, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Amin Joseph, Frances Sternhagen, Alexa Davalos, Sam Witwer, Jeff DeMunn, Brian Libby, Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Jones
Director: Frank Darabont
Rated: R for violence, terror and gore, and language
U.S. Opening Date: 21 November 2007

THEY SAY

First published in the 1980 horror anthology Dark Forces, Stephen King's novella The Mist takes place in a Maine town where a thick mist engulfs the area, killing those caught in its darkness. Terrified survivors seek refuge in a supermarket, while a swarm of murderous critters tries to get in.

Three-time Oscar-nominee Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption) reunites with horror-master Stephen King to write and direct this chilling adaptation of the author's original short story. Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist. Local rumors point to an experiment called the 'The Arrowhead Project' conducted at a nearby top-secret military base, but questions as to the origins of the deadly vapor are secondary to the group's overall chances for survival. Retreating to a local supermarket, Drayton and the survivors must face-off against each other before taking a united stand against an enemy they cannot even see!

WE SAY

The Fog 2? Not quite. Here the enemy seems to be both the mysterious fog outside (and the vicious creatures hiding in them) as well as your fellow human victims trapped in the supermarket with you.

Anyway, we here at Sci-Fi Movie Page are a bit divided on the movie thus far: the trailer is great (that moody music from The Fountain and all that!) until the first CGI beasties start popping up all over the place. They seem a bit anti-climactic and, well, ridiculous to be honest. But we’ll see: Darabont is more of a drama director than a horror one and it’d interesting to see what he does with what is the 76th Stephen King adaptation (and his third) . . .

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