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"Stephen King's The Mist is more than a mere monster movie and its certainly not a typical horror film. The Mist is a brutal and violent character study that explores how ordinary people would react in a threatening situation. This film shows how fear and paranoia can completely change a person and turn us into rabid animals. One character clearly claimed that if you take all of our defenses away and scare the shit out of us, we no longer have morals or rules. The Mist tells the story of a father and his young son who become trapped in a supermarket after a mysterious mist envelops their town and unleashes an otherworldly evil upon the locals. This is director Frank Darabont's third adaptation of a Stephen King novel and its possibly his most compelling and powerful film yet. Thomas Jane leads an impressive cast of powerhouse performers which includes Toby Jone, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, and Andre Braugher. Toby Jones was the standout in my opinion and Marcia Gay Harden was ... "
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"I loved The Mist. Another pairing of director Frank Darabont ("The Majestic") with material from writer Stephen King makes me want them to work together all the time. King knows how to create characters and they all work here. The story starts fast. The claustrophobia is great, as well as the reactions of the people trapped in a supermarket when a strange monster inhabited mist descends on the town. Marcia Gay Harden ("Into the Wild") is in top form here. Excellent, gut wrenching ending. See it now.Control is the biopic about Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division. I don't know much about the subject matter, but the film seemed to paint a pretty honest portrait. Shot in black and white, Sam Riley ("24 Hour Party People") as Curtis, is sometimes painful to watch as he deals with epilepsy. Samantha Morton ("Elizabeth: The Golden Age") is equally good as his wife, Deborah. The film uses much of Joy Division's music, as well as other music from that era. I didn't love it, but that ... "
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"(Note: This is actaully written as part of my newspaper review column, whose readers may not be as obsessive about their horror films as members of the Spout community, but I felt I would include it nonetheless) Let's face it, the current economic news is far more terrifying than any feature that can grace the big screen right now. For horror devotees, there's the never-ending “Saw” franchise making its fifth trip to the multiplex this weekend. And there is really only one other legitimate fright flick for it to contend with (and no, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and “W.” don't count). The film is “Quarantine,” which I will get to later. But first, may I suggest a few more economically friendly ways to get your scare on this season of the witch by suggesting some DVD titles that you may have overlooked.
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The Mist (2007)
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""The Mist" advertises itself as a horror film. And in some respects, it is a horror film in the conventional sense of the genre. But in others, it becomes a psychological horror film, a battle between us and them when we´re all human, thrust into a situation where no one has the magic bullet which leads to salvation. In those situations, we turn to what we feel most comfortable with. What happened after September 11? Most American turned to friends and family out of a sense of safety; others took to a hawkish war stance because they thought guns would protect them. The same dynamic is at work in Frank Daranont´s ("The Green Mile," "The Shawshank Redemption") production. Add in a third place to turn to for comfort-religion-and an powder keg is lit. Following a freak storm in a small Maine town, David Drayton (Thomas Jane), his son Billy (Nathan Gamble) and next door neighbor Brent Norton (Andre Braugher) head to the local grocery store for supplied. While there, an eerie ... "
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"Now don’t get me wrong, here — ‘The Mist‘ (2007) was adequately executed, beautifully shot and well cast, but Frank Darabont ought to have done more to haul the premise of Stephen King’s novella out of the ’50’s. I used to be a King fan way, way back and read a good few of his books back in my junior HS days. I even followed some of his adaptations for a while — his adaptations from other people’s ideas and other people’s adaptations of his work — but that was before Frank Darabont started making his filmazations. From the commercials that advertised the movie last fall, it looked as though ‘The Mist’ was going to be a King-remake of John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog‘ (1980), which seemed entirely unnecessary and redundant to me, considering we’d just had a widely panned ‘Fog’ remake in 2005. Lo and behold, ‘The Mist’ was based on a 1980 nove "
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"The biggest problem with The Mist is that it is not what it thinks it is. It thinks it is a deep statement with a lot of human pathos, but it's really just a monster movie. Had it realized that, I think, it could have been a really good, and more importantly, a really fun monster movie. Instead, the picture takes itself far too seriously to be entertaining but not enough to becoming ridiculous, so end up with a mediocre cinematic experience. The movie is based on a novella by Stephen King. Although it is regarded as one of the writer's best works (it won some award somewhere), I think, frankly, it kind of sucks. King clearly loves the idea of a diverse group of characters trapped in a single location fighting of forces of evil. Just counting the number of King works I am familiar with, he's used at least four times, to varying degrees of success with Maximum Overdrive (a gas station), The Langoliers (an airplane), The Regulators (a house) and with The Mist, a supermarket. As always ... "
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"I'm very, very irritated with Frank Darabont right now. The first half of The Mist had so much promise, but the second half turned ridiculous. And I'm not talking ridiculous in the sense of creatures lurking in an ominous mist outside the store where you're trapped -- I'm talking ridiculous in the sense of what normal people might do when faced with real terror. History tells us that mass suicide is not a likely scenario.What *really* turned me off was the phony Bible-thumping character. So much so that once her role escalated, I never recovered. I could not bring myself back to the feeling I had in the first 60 minutes -- extremely nervous due to the claustorphobic nature of the set. She was phony because Darabont didn't bother trying to make this woman 1% believable. Does ANYONE in Hollywood know a born-again Christian? Anyone?! Half of her poppycock dialogue alleged to be biblical prophesy was just wild ad-lib on Darabont's part. Bah!And the &qu ... "
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"Not entirely unfamiliar in terms of basic plot (mysterious occurrence unleashes unknown creatures that attack indiscriminately and survivors must discover the truth and try and survive), The Mist does however surprise in its performances that incredibly turn the humans into more scary monsters than the behemoth monstrosities lurking in the mist. With Marcia Gay Harden as the town loony that begins to gain a cult following after her religious tirades begin to resemble true prophecy and Toby Jones and Thomas Jane as two of the reasonably intelligent, level-headed outcasts trying to figure out a way to escape the confines of the supermarket they all find themselves trapped in, the chilling performances really strike a chord and maintain the unnervingly realistic sense of foreboding that stays with you to the final (yet ultimately predictable) conclusion. "
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Another Stephen King Letdown
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"There are two reasons I completely disliked this film: the TERRIBLE cinematography (can we say "rack focus", anyone?) and the IMPLAUSIBLE actions of the characters. Let me elaborate: it is shot like episodic television, which makes sense since Frank Darabont seemed to use most of the crew he worked with on "The Shield", but for God's sake...this is a feature film! Some of the shots weren't even in focus...at all! Seriously? 18 million dollar budget and all they can come up with is this? Sad. Then we've got the character's actions themselves. Whereas the natural instinct of self-preservation would kick in to a "real" person caught in this situation (like running for your life when scary shit starts attacking you), these people seem to have little of that instinct. Instead, they seem compelled to stand and stare, scream a little, and get killed. Not only that, but SOMEONE in this small hick town ought to know that INSECTS ARE ATTRACTED TO ... "
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"I’ve already written about trailers for each of these films, and I didn’t really want to revisit either one. Even if they did have second trailers released — as most movies do — it’s typically hard for me to find the new versions in a format that I can embed here (I guess I got lucky with The Happening video above). But both of these movies have special marketing circumstances regarding their new, second trailers, that I figured they were worth noting. The new trailer for The Happening, unlike the one I wrote about previously, seems more interested in exploiting the 9/11 and terrorist-threat angle. As if we hadn’t already guessed that Shyamalan was dealing with that kind of subject matter. Of course, the first trailer was just fine at selling the movie as a sci-fi/horror thriller, which I imagine is much more appealing to a wide audience than anything relating to 9/11. Still, I kind of understand why they decided to go this route, as well. The first trailer just made the movie look ... "
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