The Mist works to remove horror from its recent, needless emphasis on torture and the violent extreme.
—Clarence Carter, Reverse Shot. This of course ignores (SPOILER ALERT) the none-more-black quadruple-murder-attempted-suicide ending (the “gut-punch” “bitterness” of which is elsewhere praised), the gore moneyshots, the burn-victim closeups, and the infanticide. There’s qualified praise for a supposed terrorism subtext, too. But this is to be expected, I guess, because when you go on record about how nihilism in horror is bad and politics in horror is good, but then you find yourself liking a horror movie that’s nihilistic and largely apolitical, you start having to doublethink.