Hello and welcome to episode 162 of Real Life Ghost Stories.

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And our film review this week, our film review is The Mist. The Mist was released in 2008. It has 7.1 out of 10 on IMDB and 72% on Rotten Tomatoes.

A freak mysterious storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town in New England.

And as always we're going to go through the likes and dislikes for this movie. Let's start with the likes and I love a situational horror.

And this is all centered around a group of people that are trapped in a grocery store.

And the movie gets straight into it. We know there's been a storm. We know that everybody's been affected.

We know it's been a freak storm so everyone's in the grocery store trying to tap up on their goods, on their items, on food,

because their electricity is down and then the mist rolls in. And then everything goes haywire.

There's no messing around with this film. We get straight into it.

And what struck me about this film is that it felt like less of a monster movie and more of a social commentary.

So the beginning of the film, it's all about the mist. It's all about the creatures that are in the mist.

It's all about scary shit that's happening. People are getting eaten left right in center.

Great stuff for a monster movie. You know, all the good ingredients.

And then as things continue, it kind of becomes this social commentary about how different people within like different factions of society might respond in a situation like this.

And I was kind of surprised at the depth of that.

I understand that it's difficult to get true depth in a film that's about monsters that has a limited period of time.

But the example that I think is most pertinent is that there is a woman in the grocery store who is seen as like the local crack pot.

And she believes that the mist is a plague from God.

And I'm not going to ruin the film for anybody, but I just felt like her characters trajectory throughout the film.

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