The Mist
The Mist doesn’t reach quite that level of greatness that puts it on my Really Good Horror Movies list, but it’s pretty damn cool. It’s entertaining and scary, with little details that make it great.
* An awesome elderly female protagonist. Thank you God. We have so many awesome elderly male protagonists, (all played by Clint Eastwood), and I’ve been waiting for the female counterpart. Here she is: Irene Reppler, ably played by Frances Sternhagen, schoolteacher and maternal figure over several generations of local children, from whom supernatural creatures had better run in fear, because she has Raid and gasoline and knows how to use them. Not a flinch as she uses bug spray and pea cans to stare down giant bugs, pterodactyls, and raving lunatics.
* Thomas Jane actually got to act in this movie. Between this and Hung the man might finally be getting the acknowledgement he deserves.
* Watching the ending is sort of like being kicked repeatedly in the teeth. Even horror films aren’t usually allowed to be so disturbing.
* And they did it without torture porn! There are several bloody scenes, but only two I can think of that are really, really gross.
Nifty movie. :D
-Elizabeth Reuter
Author, The Demon of Renaissance Drive
* An awesome elderly female protagonist. Thank you God. We have so many awesome elderly male protagonists, (all played by Clint Eastwood), and I’ve been waiting for the female counterpart. Here she is: Irene Reppler, ably played by Frances Sternhagen, schoolteacher and maternal figure over several generations of local children, from whom supernatural creatures had better run in fear, because she has Raid and gasoline and knows how to use them. Not a flinch as she uses bug spray and pea cans to stare down giant bugs, pterodactyls, and raving lunatics.
* Thomas Jane actually got to act in this movie. Between this and Hung the man might finally be getting the acknowledgement he deserves.
* Watching the ending is sort of like being kicked repeatedly in the teeth. Even horror films aren’t usually allowed to be so disturbing.
* And they did it without torture porn! There are several bloody scenes, but only two I can think of that are really, really gross.
Nifty movie. :D
-Elizabeth Reuter
Author, The Demon of Renaissance Drive
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