The Mist Reviews

The Mist is a 2007 horror film based on the novella by Stephen King.

"The Mist received generally positive reviews from critics. The film scored a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, an overall rating of 58 on Metacritic.

The box office gross for the U.S. totaled $25,593,755 and $18,324,664 abroad for a total worldwide of $43,918,419.

• Chicago Tribune: The Mist Reviews (3.5/4)
  • "...the film is very absorbing, and by the time the ending arrives, you may be willing to cut it a break, as I was, even if Darabont's nervy resolution cuts the audience no break whatever."

• E! Online: The Mist Reviews (A)
  • "Unlike other horror films that only have torture porn to offer, this one will stay with you for a long time."

• Entertainment Weekly: The Mist Review (B+)
  • "The bugs and such are gross enough — and yet so very handsome — in Frank Darabont's nifty, unusually spry, and almost shockingly pessimistic low-budget adaptation of King's 1980 extended short story. (Abandon all hope, ye who remember the original, unresolved ending.)"

• ReelViews: The Mist Review (3.5/4)
  • "Finally, after a long list of failures, someone has done justice in bringing one of King's horror stories to the screen."

• Film Threat: The Mist Review (4/4)
  • "Critically, it probably won't receive a fraction of the plaudits his earlier version of "The Shawshank Redemption" did, but it's a solid effort in its own right, and vaults easily to the upper echelon of horror flicks based on King's works (talk about damning with faint praise)."

• eFilmCritic.com: The Mist Review (5/5)
  • "Frank Darabont's The Mist is easily the best horror film since The Blair Witch Project and the most socially frightening statement about humanity in the post 9/11 era."

• RogerEbert.com: The Mist Review (2/4)
  • "It is a competently made Horrible Things Pouncing on People Movie. If you think Frank Darabont has equaled the "Shawshank" and "Green Mile" track record, you will be sadly mistaken."

• The Boston Globe: The Mist Review (2/4)
  • "That bloated sense of purpose turns what could have been a nifty B-movie into a strained, two-hours-plus "Twilight Zone" episode, and, believe me, Darabont's no Rod Serling."

• The New Yorker: The Mist Review
  • "The line "There's something in the mist!" is a straight lift from "There's something in the fog!," spoken twenty-seven years ago in John Carpenter's "The Fog," and it shows that these movies are not meditations on the tragedy of human overreach. They're weather reports."

• The Washington Post: The Mist Review
  • "There's a glib twist at the end, which seems out of character, and the movie could easily lose 20 minutes, maybe 40."

• Village Voice: The Mist Review
  • "How did a straightforward little tale about prehistoric monsters gobbling down the hapless citizens of a modern-day town become such a lumbering and depressing movie?"

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