The Mist (DVD)

Don’t plan on going to sleep right after watching this one. It is not conducive to sweet dreams.

The problem with Stephen King’s tales of horror is that they are too plausible, if you can allow yourself to sretch your boundaries on what might be reality. The situation is not totally impossible, what with man screwing around with genetics, physics and anything else. And the reactions of the people involved in the situation is entirely realistic. But the story is not an accepted reality, so the horror is still “out there”.

The painter/dad, played by Thomas Jane of The Punisher fame, reacts and acts just as a man of his nature would be expected to. His son, played by Andre Braugher Toby Jones, is a normal boy thrust into a bizarre world. The acting is superb, and the story lacks nothing in character development, fast paced action, special effects, and shear terror.

The religious fanatic is entirely believable as well. And the rest of the characters, hoping to remain safe in the supermarket, each add believable detail.

It has left me wondering – did I miss something in the news, was Maine perhaps visited by strange creatures from an alternate reality, and I missed it?