Have You Seen: The Mist (2007)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we discover Frank Darabon't 2007 science fiction horror movie The Mist starring Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Laurie Holden about a town that gets enveloped in a mysterious mist that contains deadly monsters.We talk about the movie's themes of civilisation, morality and chance, how the movie sells its audience on its premise to create tension, its roots in 50's monster movies and weird fiction, and much more.