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The Mist - 5/10
This is not a great movie, but like so many uncultured, contrived works, it was actually enjoyable. Yes, it was cliched, yes, it was ludicrous but still, it gripped me throughout.
The big flaw for me was the accelerated rate at which the besieged and desperate humans completely fall apart. The timeline extends to several days and, frankly, nobody would lose it that quickly but then, the makers were trying to achieve an effect not make a study of the human condition under extreme stress (watch The Road for that; actually, watch it immediately if you haven't already!).
That said, there was something deeply Lovecraftian about this with a real heavy lacing of classic Twilight Zone. I won't spoil anything but what this movie did, which salvaged a lot of integrity for me was, it did non-fluffy and utterly bleak well. For a 5/10 it is very watchable.
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top 10 movies
1. event horizon
2. ju on
3. suspiria
4. the exorcist
5. ringu
6. tcm
7. exorcist III
8. the omen
9. haute tension
10. creep
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