The Mist (2007)

Regisseur:

Frank Darabont

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Stephen King (novel)

Premierendatum:

21. November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Fear Changes Everything

Plot:

A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

Plot Keywords:

Prayer | Shot In The Chest | Cashier | Child Shot In The Head | Stabbed In The Chest

Filmpreise:

4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Great movie where the characters actually have substance.

Besetzung

Thomas Jane	...	David Drayton
Marcia Gay Harden	...	Mrs. Carmody
Laurie Holden	...	Amanda Dumfries
Andre Braugher	...	Brent Norton
Toby Jones	...	Ollie Weeks
William Sadler	...	Jim Grondin
Jeffrey DeMunn	...	Dan Miller
Frances Sternhagen	...	Irene Reppler
Nathan Gamble	...	Billy Drayton
Alexa Davalos	...	Sally
Chris Owen	...	Norm
Sam Witwer	...	Private Jessup
Robert C. Treveiler	...	Bud Brown (as Robert Treveiler)
David Jensen	...	Myron
Melissa Suzanne McBride	...	Woman With Kids at Home (as Melissa McBride)

Alternativ:

Stephen King's The Mist (USA) (complete title)
Nebel, Der (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, terror and gore, and language.

Länge:

126 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe | Schwarzweiss (alternate DVD version)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:MA | USA:R | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | France:-12 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Japan:R-15 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIB | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud)

Drehorte:

Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Firma:

Darkwoods Productions

Dies und das:

The pharmacy next to the Food House store is called "King's Pharmacy", most likely a reference to author Stephen King. Coincidentally, Stephen King himself once had a cameo as a pharmacist in the film adaptation of his novel Thinner (1996).

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The blood splatter on the windshield goes from being in the middle of the broken glass to being spread out across the windshield and then back again.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Billy Drayton: Whoa!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)

Soundtrack:

The Host of Seraphim

Great movie where the characters actually have substance.

It seems that Frank Darabont can do no wrong when faced with bringing Stephen King novels to the big screen. He masterfully directed The Green Mile as well as one of the greatest movies, if not the greatest -opinion of course-, film of all time, The Shawshank Redemption. This movie is not another gore fest slasher movie. Granted it has its fair share of gruesome violence, but it is the signature way in which King develops his characters and focuses on human nature and emotion that allows this movie to succeed.

Rather than focus on how the mist got to their town or what exactly it was, the story zeros in on how the people co-exist with one another in spite of occurrences which they cannot fathom nor know how to deal with the supernatural foe. It is a primitive story based on human weakness and King's eternal themes of hope and fear. Fear of not just what we don't know or what goes bump in the night, but fear of ourselves and what we are capable of doing to one another.

Religion is an important element in this story that any theology, history or philosophy student could write a thesis on. When faced with fear of death do you turn to god? Smoke and mirrors. With reference to Castro, who himself made such a spectacle at his speeches that Cubans themselves could believe he was the second coming. It is not religion that is the evil force in the film but the way in which men and women exploit it to make themselves stronger and breed their own hate, fear and insecurity -clearly not a new theme-.

I really enjoyed watching this movie. It was complex, entertaining and albeit depressing, I found it satisfying at points -those who have seen it know what I am talking about-. If only more films had more substance to them and had some kind message, even if the message was a bit muddled. If only King would stay away from those television mini-series....-although I liked the Langoliers so there's no accounting for taste after all I guess-.