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What’s that mist? “It’s the pollution from Rumford,” someone says squinting into the mountains, possibly to the town whose paper-mills create smells of legend around Maine.
It’s not that, but ‘something terrible’ that asks the question: What would you do to survive when you only have each other and no idea what you’re up against? Starting with that premise we see a small town’s myriad answers. Marcia Gaye Harden realizes her moment as a fire and brimstone preacher. Thomas Jane puts down his paintbrush and picks up mop soaked in lighter fluid. Toby Jones, in a well-aimed portrayal of a diminutive grocery store assistant manager, pulls out a well aimed pistol.
The story comes from Stephen King’s long-short-story of the same name from what now seems like his younger, classic period. Set in the Maine lakes issues of year-round residents versus summer and weekend‘visitors.’
The creatures coming out of the mist look goofy in a B-movie way, but the issues are plausible. It’s worth watching as it makes its way to the discount theaters and to DVD
