The Mist: Makes for an interesting rewatch once you've become fully absorbed in the tv series The Walking Dead. Not only do a few actors from the show turn up but even in adapting a Stephen King novella Frank Darabont sows various thematic and visual seeds which come into fruition in the popular zombie survival tv show. Paternal protection and the desperate measure humans will go to in order to survive extraordinary circumstances are the 2 most striking similarities and it's hard not to see a little of Rick Grimes in Thomas Jane's portrayal of David Drayton (or vice versa) and the whole film runs along at a great pace where you really care for the key characters and their survival. It also boasts one of the bleakest endings in recent film history too which still packs a punch on a second viewing. The black and white version is preferable as, if nothing else, the absence of colour masks the occasionally poor cgi fx,
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