Movie Review: Stephen Kings' The Mist

So many of us are waiting with baited breath for Stephen King's latest thriller, The Mist, to come out in theaters on November 21st. For those of us who have read the book, it cannot come soon enough.

I first read The Mist after I picked up an old Stephen King paperback book in a thrift shop almost 10 years ago. Skeleton Crew is a rather large book full of King's many short stories, many of them still pretty unknown. This book was published well over 20 years ago, in 1985, yet is still popular among Kings following. The Mist grabbed me back then, as it still does now, and I admit to having re-read that story at the very least a dozen times. I always thought what a great movie it would be. So imagine my surprise to find the book had been published, on its own,proclaiming, "soon to be a movie hit" by MGM and Dimension Films.

So what is this movie about? Well, I'm sure you've read the reviews and seen the trailers, either on TV or the Internet. But what you don't know, if you haven't read the book, is the sense of foreboding, of helplessness, of terror, that the Mist contains. It starts out simply enough. A violent thunderstorm hits in the small town of Bridgton, Maine. Afterwards, a thick, unnatural mist begins to cover the town and the dwellers living on this ocean-front property. When main character, David Drayton takes his five year old son Billy to the supermarket, accompanied by neighbor and former enemy Brent Norton for supplies, the real terror unfolds. The Mist covers the supermarket, panic starts to unfold outside, and everyone in the supermarket becomes trapped inside.

Stephen King's "The Mist"

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