The Mist (2007)

SYFY, 9.00PM ★★★★

 The usually optimistic Frank Darabont unleashed this bleak chiller about tentacled monsters besieging a Maine supermarket and preaching religious maniac (the reliable Marcia Gay Harden). This is the third time that Darabont has turned to Stephen King for inspiration (after The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile) and it’s an unflinching vision of American despair.