daily stream: the monsters are due...
2007’s *The Mist* is on US Netflix, and on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic
I am struggling mightily at the moment to wrangle my review of a not-very-good apocalypse movie that I shouldn’t be having this much trouble with (except that I am struggling mightily with absolutely everything right now). While you wait, here is a far superior movie about an apocalypse and how humans deal with it (spoiler: not very well). To quote my 2007 review of The Mist:
The monsters of The Mist are the people, and how we give in to fear and give up on hope at the very moments when we don’t need the one and desperately need the other. This is horror of a philosophical, humanistic bent, examining the nightmares of politics and religion on the small scale upon which they act upon individuals, as well as our propensity to dispense with reason at the drop of a hat… or a tentacle. For all its fantastical elements, this is as grounded and as immediate and as real as movies get. This is “horror” the way that Rod Serling told it — think the creepy societal breakdown of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” and you’ve got it.
The Mist comes from the potent partnership of director Frank Darabont and writer Stephen King (previous collabs: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile). I’m not the biggest fan of what typically passes for a horror movie, but I do love King’s work, and Shawshank makes me sob like a baby no matter how many times I see it. So keep that in mind when I say this: I think The Mist is one of the greatest horror films ever made.
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UK: rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
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