Shhhhhhh.......

Don't tell my cousins, but I went and saw The Mist this afternoon. Yup...first showing on opening day. I just couldn't wait to see it. I told them I'd go see it with them next week, but I just happened to be driving by the theater, and it just happened to be 10 minutes before show-time. What else was I supposed to do??

Anyway, the movie is pretty good. The acting is okay, and Marcia Gay Harden is perfect as the psychotic religious freak and Thomas Jayne is good as the every-man who just wants to protect his son. The movie sticks pretty close to the original short story, although the movie ending was far different from Stephen King's story. While I prefer the short-story ending to the movies' version, it was still okay. The effects were good and the creatures were creepy and gross.

I liked it. I actually can't wait to see it again next week with my cousins.

And if I can give you all one piece of advice....don't go in the mist.

The Mist

A movie adaption of Stephen King's short story, The Mist, will be opening in theaters on Wednesday, November 21 (the day before Thanksgiving). The short story first appeared in Dark Forces (1980), a horror anthology, and was later included in Stephen King's own short-story collection, Skeleton Crew (1985).

It is one creepy story about a mysterious mist that envelopes a small Maine town. The towns people gather and soon learn that there are creatures in the mist that are feasting on people, and that a secret project had been going on (The Arrowhead Project) across the lake from their town. It was from this direction that the mist first began to cover the land. They take up shelter in a grocery store, but soon the traits of human nature show through: fear, mistrust, doubt, hopelessness. As the people begin to turn on one another, a small group make a run for it, find a car in the hard-to-see-through mist, and head out to find other life...and to see if the mist ever ends.

The movie was written and directed by Frank Darabont, who did a great job with two previous Stephen King works that he turned into movies: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. The Mist is one of my all-time favorite works by Mr King (who, I might add, lives in Bangor, Maine, less than15 minutes from where I live in Orono). With Frank Darabont writing and directing this, I expect this to be a really good movie and I can't wait until it gets here!

But, it must get here first. Why do I say that? Well, when I woke up this morning and looked out my window, here's what I saw:

yikes...

I'm currently afraid to go outside...at least until the mist burns off.

If it burns off.....