Anyone Got the Foggiest? ; It's Easy to Get Caught Up in Stephen King's Man Against Monster Story but Frank Darabont's Confused Adaptation Doesn't Know If It's a Horror Movie or a Morality Tale

Evening Standard - London › July 03, 2008

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The Mist Cert 15, 127 mins .. .. .. .. ...

FRANK Darabont's third adaptation of a Stephen King opus, but his first in the horror genre, starts well. David (Thomas Jane), his wife and son survive a heavy storm at their lakeside Maine home, watch an odd-looking mist approaching over water and, after picking up their neighbour whose vintage Merc has been ruined by a falling tree, drive into town to get provisions.

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Anyone Got the Foggiest? ; It's Easy to Get Caught Up in Stephen King's Man Against Monster Story but Frank Darabont's Confused Adaptation Doesn't Know If It's a Horror Movie or a Morality Tale

While they're in the supermarket, the mist descends like a messenger from hell. Something is definitely agley. Soon they are all holed up in the store, unable to go out ...

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