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'The Mist'

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Stephen King is all things to all filmmakers. To Frank Darabont, he's a left-of-Noam-Chomsky nihilist who thinks the military and the religious right are to blame for anything and everything that ails us.

That, at least, is the King that emerges from "The Mist," the shrill and mean-spirited horror melange that Darabont (of "Shawshank Redemption" fame) has adapted from the author's novella....

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