The Mist- Oh Gods no, not ANOTHER religious zealot!

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I like monster movies, I'll make no secret of that. And thanks to films like "Cloverfield", "Super 8" and more recently, "Pacific Rim" I've been on the look out for them more and more. I heard about "The Mist" (and saw some screen-caps that looked quite promising. Like Gareth Edwards "Monsters", only with your local Tesco's instead of an alien infested Mexico.), so I bought it- at fortunately a low price- and sat down to enjoy.

Only I forgot it is based on the works of Stephen King. And okay, whilst it is an adaption that doesn't perhaps fill the movie with all the details of the book, I'd forgotten how much I actually dislike about 90% of the things he has created!

I know that's practically sacrilege (especially as the DVD sleeve give snippets from both Empire and Starburst that suggest that it was the best movie of 2007- I think I was rather distracted by Hot Fuzz at the time).

And speaking of sacrilege, the thing that put me off of the movie most.

Mrs Carmody.

 A quick search on the internet provides an unsurprising, but actually pretty understandable, review of the movie from christiananswers.net which goes on to list the profanity, gore and offensive use of the Lord's name (which doesn't bother me) to something that I can actually agree with.

The character Mrs. Carmody makes an absolute mockery of God and Christianity in general.

 Mrs. Carmody makes God out to be a vengeful, bloodthirsty being who is bent on destroying humanity by sending hungry monsters.

 Yes. Yes she does, and it is, for me, actually the most offensive part of the movie. This movie is by no-means the only offender of this particular trope, but it is the most recent one I've seen. It's such an annoyingly common stock character, and unfair on the vast majority of Christians, by creating and enforcing the idea that in times of crisis they will be the first to "crack" and lead others to murder?! 

I wanted to see a monster movie, and yes I'm aware that there has to be human struggle- even sacrifice- to create conflict and resolution. But this unrelentingly depressing horse-sh*te is enough to make me side with the monsters every. Single. Time.