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DVD of the week: The Mist

If Frank Darabont's sleeper prison favourite The Shawshank Redemption was a film about hope, then this similarly Stephen King-derived monster movie is its (equal and) opposite - a film about utter hopelessness. Casting a baleful gaze back to the days when Darabont's credits adorned low-rent rubbery B-movies (the remake of The Blob; the sequel to the remake of The Fly), The Mist cuts a cartoonish cross-section of Americana adrift in a small-town convenience store, isolated from the world by a mysterious gas cloud that brings beasties from beyond and creeping terror from within. (read more)