Horror movies have evolved from monsters and zombies to the monsters that people become when their own psychosis interfere in the process of their own salvation.

Director Frank Darabont, known for his previous adaptations from Stephen King’s novels and “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile” tackled anther King’s novella, “The Mist.” Darabont’s deal with this one is quite a remarkable work, although the ending, which he completely changed, is provoking. Stephen King put a curse on anyone to disclose the end and we wouldn’t risk dying tonight, so the sole detail to it is the conclusion that it won’t leave anyone indifferent.

“The Mist” is the story of a rural community that is engulfed by a thick fog that follows a violent storm. People rush to the local supermarket to make provisions and they will find themselves forced to remain there, as “there is something is the fog”. Bleeding and sudden, mysterious deaths persuade them that their self-exile in the supermarket is a last resort, given the circumstances.

But the shelter proves equally menacing, as Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), no, she won’t turn into some vampire, werewolf, zombie or serial killer, but will act led by his religious bigotry. Carmody believes that the mist and the monsters hidden inside it are signs that the Apocalypse is very close. Prayers and punishing those who sin are her approaches to redeem.

The conflict is engendered by the formation of antagonistic groups, one that comply with Carmody’s beliefs and another, led by David (Thomas Jane) who does his best from curbing the psychosis that everyone is augmenting, also attempting to assure his son that the monsters in the fog won’t reach him. Another smaller group is led by David’s rival neighbor Norton (Andre Braugher), who tries to escape.

We skip the ending, and invite you to watch the gripping movie, that is thought-provoking, challenging the viewers to evaluate the peril we themselves constitute in our beliefs and how consensus is so hard to reach in deadlock circumstances.