I thought it was pretty obvious that it wasn’t about the monsters on the outside but the monsters on the inside. The people. The insane religious bitch is one of the things that made me enjoy this so much. It doesn’t need actually scary creatures to be scary, that one lady was enough to have me on the edge of my seat. Group mentality like this is probably the second scariest thing after zombies to me, at least as far as fiction goes.

What was that other film called, it was about an alien invasion and this father and his children were one of the only ones that had a car that worked so when they ended up in a big crowd of people they brutally shoved them out of the car and stole it from them. That was incredibly scary too because you know this would be very likely to happen in real life as well.

So yeah I think they call this character study right, from that point of view The Mist is fantastic. The ending seemed to make a lot of people very angry which I don’t understand. They didn’t help the mother so she left on her own and in the end her children were the ones that did survive, what could be more meaningful than that. Would you rather have everyone survive, high five each other – the end?
It seems to me that as long as you didn’t watch this film expecting it to be a proper apocalypse where everyone died because of evil fictional creatures, you probably enjoyed it.