Though Stephen King is best known for his popular horror stories, director Frank Darabont adapted two of King’s prison dramas, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, two of the most acclaimed movies in history. Then, in 2007, Darabont directed his third Stephen King movie, one of the most frighting and suspenseful King adaptations there is, The Mist.
The Mist is full of scares, mysterious creatures, and one of the most messed up endings of any movie ever, but it also houses a social commentary on xenophobia. It’s a unique horror film, which makes it hard to find similar movies, but look hard enough and there are enough scary movies full of frights, social commentary, and gobsmacking endings to satisfy any Mist fan’s needs.
10 Evil Dead II
As The Mist features one of the biggest and most disturbing plot twists of any horror movie, there’s only one other horror that could possibly compete with its heartbreaking and soul-destroying ending.
Evil Dead II is not only one of the best horror movies of the 80s, with its mix of comedy and gore, but its warped and screwed ending is just as incredible and surprising, but much less emotionally exhausting.
9 Us
With Us being Jordan Peele’s sophomore effort after the Academy Award-winning Get Out, there was a lot of excitement and hyperbole surrounding the movie.
Luckily, the movie does not disappoint, and it goes further down the Twilight Zone route with its narrative that explores classism and society in a way that so few other movies do, let alone a freaky horror movie about a family being chased by their doppelgängers.
8 The Road
The Road is a post-apocalyptic drama that’s also based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and while the original book is unruly and disturbing, the movie is just the same, though there are some glaring omissions in the adaption.
However, there are still more than enough shocks as the country erupts into chaos and the population fights for survival, and with Viggo Mortenson in the lead role, the casting is one of the things the movie got right. The Road isn’t without a surprise ending either, as it goes to extremes to shock audiences.
7 The Thing
Arguably John Carpenter’s best movie, The Thing is another shocking gorefest, full of insane character models and horrific moments. It’s possibly more isolating than The Mist, as it features several researchers holed up in Antarctica trying to hide from an evil parasite.
Like in The Mist, all the characters become consumed by paranoia and turn on each other, becoming just as volatile as The Thing they are trying to fight off.
6 Cloverfield
Very similar to The Mist but on a much larger scale, Cloverfield sees New York and the rest of the world under attack by strange life forms, seemingly out of nowhere.
It forces groups of people to work together to stay safe, and though it doesn’t necessarily come with a shock ending and is more ambiguous, Cloverfield is much more intense and scarier than The Mist with its use of shaky, handheld camera shots.
5 The Descent
The Descent might be one of the best, if not the best, British horror movies of all time. A group of cave divers get a little too ambitious as they go deeper and deeper into a cave in Hertfordshire. Soon enough, they run into some of the most horrifying monsters in cinema history.
The group is isolated in these small spaces underground, making it just as secluding as The Mist. The Descent Part 2 is just as good as the first, and though there have been many updates, a Descent Part 3, unfortunately, remains in development hell.
4 Silent Hill
This video game adaptation received mixed reviews due to its poor take on the source material, but Silent Hill has some extremely creative character development and is a solid entry into the psychological horror genre.
Its extremely misty town, in which characters can’t see what’s two feet in front of them, is exactly what induced fear into viewers of The Mist.
3 The Invisible Man
Being one of the newest horror movies to excite audiences and potentially kickstart a new franchise, The Invisible Man is a chilling experience and a wild update on the classic character.
It features just as much of a gut punch as The Mist does in its final minutes and superb acting from Elizabeth Moss in one of her best roles to date. The Invisible Man was able to turn a b-rate IP into a fantastic horror movie with depth.
2 The Shining
While The Mist is ultimately a monster flick and The Shining is much more of a psychological horror film, it’s interesting to see the two different sides of Stephen King.
The Mist has a very clear ending, where there is nothing unambiguous about that scene, yet The Shining leaves viewers questioning every single frame. But at their cores, both movies’ premises are essentially the same - which is that isolation leads the characters into a crazy and paranoid haze.
1 Devil
Devil is one of the best films that takes place in one room, as the whole movie is set in an elevator, where one of the people trapped just happens to be the devil.
Though The Mist is more expansive as a movie, for the most part, it takes place in a grocery store, where its inhabitants are constantly trying to suss each other out. In the same way, Devil keeps viewers guessing and it’s one of the most underrated horror movies of the past 20 years.
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