I Hope...

You ought to be reading the title to this post with Morgan Freeman's voice ringing in your ears, those being the final words in The Shawshank Redemption, of course. Why am I bringing that up? Because Moriarty at AICN, aka lucky bastard, got to see Frank Darabont's latest Stephen King adaptation, The Mist, and reviewed it today; the short version: he LOVED it. The long version, via a few choice quotes:

"Just how far people fall apart is the substance of the film, and it escalates with a steady, awful gravity. In a way, I think part of what makes this film so shocking is that Darabont’s work as a director has always been marked by a sort of sweetness. SHAWSHANK, GREEN MILE, THE MAJESTIC...

... but not this one. This one’s jet-black, and it’s a reminder that Frank’s roots are indeed in horror. The opening moments are a sort of a tip of the hat to the tone that audiences might expect from a Darabont film, but that all goes away fairly quickly, and by the time this film reaches its shattering conclusion, you’ll understand why this didn’t get made at Paramount. You’ll understand why no studio could make or release this. You’ll understand that Frank Darabont is out to hurt you. He wants to make this horror film count. He wants it to stick to you, leave a scar....

THE MIST is the real deal... a horror film that actually still has the ability to horrify. This isn’t a movie about cheap scares... it’s about deep scares. There are few things we are more afraid of deep down in the animal center of our brains than being devoured by the night, and this movie is a great reminder that there are things worth being afraid of, that some of them may live outside of us while others simply lay dormant in us all until some crisis awakes them. THE MIST works best when it reminds us that the genre of “horror film” is something more than just a way to score some quick opening weekend money off unsuspecting kids. At its best, the genre allows us to challenge ourselves to survival of things we can’t imagine surviving. It’s a hell of a movie, packing a much bigger punch than one would expect from such a modest production overall, and it’s a pretty significant reinvention of Darabont as a filmmaker."

This film CANNOT get here soon enough. It opens on November 21st. See some grabs from the trailer, with a link to the trailer, here.
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