Stephen Kings The Mist
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Fri 12 September 2008 // 20:00
Frank Darabont/ USA/2007/126 mins/cert.15 £4,£3
Ever since his first big-screen Stephen King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption, there’s been great anticipation for director Frank Darabont's work. His latest, set in smalltown Maine, fleshes out a horror novella King wrote in 1980 and makes for a surprisingly engaging, pleasingly old-fashioned frightfest of well-worked-out narrative and B-movie-style thrills.
Artist Thomas Jane (David Drayton), is visiting the local supermarket with his son and a neighbour when a mysterious mist descends on the town containing otherworldly creatures somehow linked to "Project Arrowhead". A lock-up siege begins as the supermarket survivors face attack from the creatures of the mist outside. As bloodied men and otherworldly carnivorous CGI insects splatter the shop glass, and as giant tentacles invade the loading bay, a mini-political war in defence tactics breaks out between David, the shop employees, a black lawyer with inappropriate private agendas (André Braugher) and a strident Christian fundamentalist (Marcia Gay Harden).
Ever since his first big-screen Stephen King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption, there’s been great anticipation for director Frank Darabont's work. His latest, set in smalltown Maine, fleshes out a horror novella King wrote in 1980 and makes for a surprisingly engaging, pleasingly old-fashioned frightfest of well-worked-out narrative and B-movie-style thrills.
Artist Thomas Jane (David Drayton), is visiting the local supermarket with his son and a neighbour when a mysterious mist descends on the town containing otherworldly creatures somehow linked to "Project Arrowhead". A lock-up siege begins as the supermarket survivors face attack from the creatures of the mist outside. As bloodied men and otherworldly carnivorous CGI insects splatter the shop glass, and as giant tentacles invade the loading bay, a mini-political war in defence tactics breaks out between David, the shop employees, a black lawyer with inappropriate private agendas (André Braugher) and a strident Christian fundamentalist (Marcia Gay Harden).