Best Slasher Movies

Finally a return to excellent Stephen King adaptations.

Frank Darabont does an incredible job of adapting Stephen King’s The Mist into a truly frightening movie. Like King’s original story, the movie doesn’t just rely on gore (although it is definitely top shelf gore and there’s plenty of it) to scare its audience. The Mist’s greatest strength is in the unique way it plays on what a danger we as people are to ourselves. It exposes people’s fears, prejudices and core beliefs as well as effectively showing the real horror of group mentality.

The entire cast performs in such a believable and real way. While they’re all very talented actors I think much of the credit has to go to an excellently written script. There’s a real humanity to this story and while the premise isn’t necessarily believable, the way the people react definitely is. The stand outs in the cast are definitely the incredible performances by Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden. You feel so strongly for these people which is such a rarity in horror movies. You care about them and that makes you want to watch to see what happens.

The Mist is an expertly crafted horror movie with lots of gore but lots of emotion. My only warning is that the ending is truly shocking, disturbing not easy to take. The Mist is not for the faint of heart.

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