![]() ![]() Darabont went in guerrilla-style, without blocking the shots, letting the lens participate in the delirium.īut it is the film's divisive, unflinching ending that truly elevates it. There is a feverishness to the way it pivots and zooms. Carmody, the deranged, Bible-thumping ring-leader, inciting stabbings and calling for "expiation" - the camera is right there in the middle of the chaos. As the characters start to get caught up in mass hysteria at the supermarket - with Mrs. Much of the crew for The Mist was in fact made up of Shield personnel, and the show's influence can very much be felt in the film's ragged camera approach. When Darabont made this film, he was coming off a stretch where he had just directed several episodes of the television crime drama The Shield. But while the film would not get nominated for any Oscars, there are some flourishes to it, like the heavily improvised camerawork, that do elevate it above the usual horror fare, both stylistically and thematically. The Mist is more of a B-movie, complete with dodgy special effects, like the squirming CGI tentacle that drags a character out of the garage in a supermarket where people are taking refuge from a mysterious fog with monsters in it. ![]()
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