The Mist

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

Frank Darabont's Stephen King adaptation earned a cautiously warm but divided critical reception — genre fans and horror-leaning critics found it genuinely tense and politically sharp, while others felt it never escaped the limitations of a B-movie creature feature, falling short of Darabont's own prestige work. The ending, notoriously bleak, landed differently with audiences than it did with most critics. Marcia Gay Harden's fanatical Mrs. Carmody was one of the few elements almost everyone singled out.