THE MIST : WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT !

I’ll try to remain cool while writing this, but it will be rather difficult. Horror movies have always been one of my favourite genres and it is always nice to see a good director trying his luck at such an underrated exercise.
Like many people, I’ve appreciated “The Shawshank Redemption”, because of its strong story and the appeal of two fabulous actors, namely Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. “The Green Line”, by the same director Frank Darabont was a nicely done film, too. The actors were, in this case as in the other, very convincing and all had their personal touch to add to the movie.
Hence, I was looking forward to watch “The Mist”, because of three reasons : Number One, I had read pretty postive reviews about it. Number Two, Frank Darabont was the director, Number Three, it was another story by Stephen King, just like his two previous films. For once, I wasn’t intent on talking shit about a film and rejoicing in advance. I really wanted it to be good and not be in my shame list here.

Boy, was I disappointed ! The story was completely inconsistent. There was no general direction in it. The actors thought it would be nice to get from the supermarket they were trapped in to another place where they would be no less in jeopardy. Whereas John Carpenter could build maximum tension in each of his films dealing with trapped people because there was something vital at stake in everyone of them, here we just watch rednecks getting more and more frightened and not being able to do anything about it.
The special effects were lame, at best, the creatures laughable and there was no sense of suspense or tension at all. What was really good, on the other hand, was the sense of exasperation you could get when the woman preacher gradually gathered all these poor retards around her and in the end demanded a human sacrifice to God, because they were all supposedly cursed for their numerous sins. Well, totally stupid. And you had to wait for nearly three quarters of an hour for someone to finally shot her in the head, whereas it should have taken five minutes for any decent man to do it.
What is left to say ? Not much, except that it seems that good plots and decent film-making seem to have disappeared from the face of this planet. And don’t try to tell me that turds like “Hostel” or the “Saw” series are good. They’re not. They’re just porn horror movies with no sense of story-telling. Only triggered at the viewers’ lowest instincts.

Rating : 0.000000000000010 out of 10, sadly.