The Mist

I'm not a big fan of horror, but this seemed like a pretty tame, scifi thriller at most. And with a writer like Stephen King it's bound to have some sort of story line.

Wrong.

The special effects were downright laughable. The gore was over the top. And none of the "scary" ideas had any originality. Monstars implanted their offspring in people, like in Alien, spiders webbed people up like in Lord of the Rings, and flying insects reminded one of the computerized mosquitoes in Jumanji.

When the shadow of any type of plot finally appeared, it portrayed an antagonistic, cliche fanatic who looks to the warnings in Revelation and sees the monsters in the mist as the wrath of God punishing sinful unbelievers. This unstable Christian demands blood sacrifices and preaches lengthy sermons about sinners and "the creatures of Hell."

And who was to blame for all this massacre and madness? You got it folks, the American Soldier. While the Christian rallied a crowd of followers, and the "good guys" fought overwhelmingly fake looking monsters, the three soldiers stood in the back ground quietly. Finally they are proven to have caused the coming of the monsters, inciting two of them to shamefully commit suicide and one to be, "fed to the beasts."

As if this was not bad enough, the very end of the movie was, absolutely and utterly pointless, hopeless, and anticlimatic.

With a horrible plot, ignorant representation of Christians, outrageously wussy American soldiers, and a royally screwed up ending, Stephen King has created quite a masterpiece. All hail the king of horror!