Stephen King’s horror films tend to do well on Netflix and the best of them is currently taking over the platform.
By Nathan Kamal | Published
Stephen King’s work films have won more than two billion dollars at the box office. It is an amazing number, even at the age of blockbusters of a billion dollars. A single writer is responsible for films that have collectively made the gross domestic product of many small nations.
Among these many films, one of his most misunderstood is the years 2007 The mistA film that deserves more praise than it gets.
Stephen King’s frequent collaborator, Frank Darabont, made it, and in a complete filmography which includes huge box office salons, The mist is roughly in the middle of the pack. He made 57 million decent dollars (on a budget of $ 18 million) but certainly did not set fire to the world.
Critics were lukewarm at that time and now he is currently having a 60% note on Rotten Tomatoes. Compared to the first adaptations of Stephen King by Frank Darabont, Shawshank redemption (which failed at the exit, to be reassessed as a modern classic) and The green mile (which is less affectionately in memories, but has made a quarter of a billion dollars), The mist was something of a non-start.
These figures do not The mist justice. This is one of Stephen King’s most terrifying cinematographic adaptations.
Contrary to He with his clown killer lobe and diet or Senials for petsCat de Roadkill of haunting coating, nothing in this film is easily marketed. Of course, there are monsters in abundance in the fog holding the film, and they are masterpieces of horror designs, but they are not the real bad guys in the film. Like many great films, the real monsters of The mist are human beings.
The story of the mist
The mist Begins as Stephen King’s adaptations often do, in a small town in Maine full of distinctive characters. After a thunderstorm caused serious damage to the city of Bridgton, the visual artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane, doing some of his best work) is doing a race for the local grocery store with his neighbor Brent Norton (Andre Braughher) to obtain supplies, only to find the low level panic mode already with the city.
The film clearly indicates that there are tensions between Drayton and Norton past conflicts, but it also describes them as fundamentally arranged to try to resolve their civilian conflicts. Unfortunately, this is not what things happen.
The holder mist rolls on the city and traps a collection of buyers, employees and military staff of a neighboring base inside. The stars of the film overall are played by great character actors like Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Jones and William Sadler.
Buyers trapped are frightened by a man who lacks mist, saying that “something” is there. No one is convinced until tentacles start to grasp people and tear them away, flying bugs invade the store and the religious fanatic hardens prophesy the end of the world.
Despite the Monsters HP Lovecraft that hide in the mist (whose presence is never completely explained in a limited touch by Stephen King and Frank Darabont), the conflict concerns people who turn on each other and break with common sense and morality.
The best things about mist are the reasons why it was not a great success
It is not surprising that The mist was not really a success in theaters. It is a dark and dark film, as planned by a film on monsters and mist. He feels claustrophobic and stressful in a way that was not in vogue for the peak of manifest torture porn movies as Saw; Horror and tension are not in the gore (although there are many), but seeing the company decompose so suddenly.
Among all this, the greatest thing that holds The mist The back has always been its end. It has the darkest end of cinematographic history, an ending from the new original and was signed by the author himself.
Everything I listed as a reason The mist Not having played is also a reason to see it. There is nothing like it. The mist is the ideal genre of horror film by Stephen King to watch at home, let’s hope it in the company of confidence, not in a theater full of people who could turn you if the monsters appear.
