The Mist (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, violence and threat
- Run time: 2 hours 6 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 4th July 2008
- Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
- Directed by: Frank Darabont
- Official Website: www.themistmovie.co.uk
- Distributor: Momentum Theatrical
Plot Synopsis
David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy (Nathan Gamble) are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realise that there are things lurking in the mist…deadly, horrifying things…creatures not of this world. Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together…but is that possible, given human nature? As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist—or the ones inside the store, the human kind, the people that until now had been his friends and neighbours. In this legendary tale of terror from master storyteller Stephen King, the thin veneer of civilization is stripped away, the masks are discarded, and the true horror is revealed as us. From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director of “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile”, and legendary horror writer Stephen King comes “The Mist.”
After a freak storm lashes his family’s Maine home, cutting off power, sending debris everywhere, and knocking a massive tree into his living room, David Drayton thought a trip into town to pick up groceries would be the easy part of his day. He was wrong. In “The Mist,” the storm sets off a chain of events that will leave Drayton and a band of his fellow townspeople — including belligerent neighbour Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), religious fanatic Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), school teacher Amanda (Laurie Holden) and supermarket manager Ollie (Toby Jones) — fighting desperately for their lives. With determination, they may be able to vanquish the mysterious terror that has descended upon them.
But they may not be able to survive one another.
The Dimension Films presentation “The Mist” is an MGM release, directed by Frank Darabont. Darabont, who previously adapted and directed the King tales "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile," wrote the script. Castle Rock's Liz Glotzer produces with Darabont.