An entertaining B-movie that leaves quite an impression thanks to its memorable ending. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 28, 2025

Because Darabont's not shooting for Oscar gold this time around, he's able to ease up on the pedal of self-importance and deliver an old-fashioned "B"- style genre flick.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Nuanced and deeply layered, The Mist proves itself not only to be a well-crafted horror but an example of the true power of adaptations.

| Dec 10, 2022

Overall, The Mist is a terrifying example of fantastical nightmares coming to life, and the human monsters that crisis can make of us. The acting is on point and the design is a spooky delight. The end will have you screaming.

| Oct 4, 2022

This might be one of the most horrifying visions of an apocalyptic event I’ve seen in a movie, one that truly feels like it could happen, well, at least the human element. I feel pretty confident the otherworldly insect mist stuff won’t happen.

| Aug 30, 2022

The Mist suggests that human nature represents an abysmal void filled with fear, and when tested, it transforms people into monstrosities of unimaginable horror.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

A major box-office disappoint that continues to deserve fan love.

| Nov 2, 2021

I thought really worked -- there's some great horror elements in The Mist.

| Oct 29, 2021

This drastically altered adaptation of Stephen King's novella features vicious creatures, recycled characters, and a forfeiture of satisfaction for unpredictability.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 27, 2020

...those who can stomach [The Mist] are likely to walk away with one of the most memorable monster movie experiences they have ever had.

| Oct 8, 2020

A solidly entertaining, intelligent, suspenseful and gutsy journey.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

All in all, it's a pretty hateful film whose nihilism resounds perhaps most sharply in the twist ending.

| Original Score: 2.3/5 | Jan 3, 2020

H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos has long been one of King's guiding influences, and Frank Darabont's adaptation of The Mist honors that relationship while also working as a 21st-century political parable.

| Sep 5, 2019

The last 30 minutes play like a dismissive ambush, leading to a final scene so utterly misguided that I wanted to hurl obscenities at the screen.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 14, 2017

Frank Darabont presents a movie with one of the most pesimist and hopeless endings in cinema history. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 5, 2015

The Mist is a creature feature in which the monsters are almost incidental, but the panic and fear-mongering that comes with the territory is what ultimately causes the most chaos.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The Mist has a lot of the elements to be one of the great horror films, but it never quite puts it all together. It's still very good, but a few missteps keep it from ever being more than that.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 30, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2011

The black-and-white version's stark contrasts give greater claustrophobic force to the fragility of civilization when ideology grows as deadly as any marauding beasts. Prepare also to be knocked cold and gut-kicked for good measure by its ending.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2010