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I loved this movie. It's campy and over the top with a very serious feel of taking you back to the 50s, acute paranoia of the unknown monster movies. The character of Mrs. Carmody was great. Yes I hated her with a passion, but wasn't that the whole point of that character? If she wasn't there, the movie would have just dragged on. She gave the whole situation life beyond just dealing with monsters trying to kill them. There was a serious threat within as well that had to be dealt with. By including that storyline, it meant that there wasn't a need to have a silly bridge/filler scene. Like the scene in the Dawn of the Dead remake where they all fool around, riding bikes, having sex, etc. What a retarded scene. It just gave the filmmakers an easy out to make the ending seem that much more climactic. The Mist didn't do that. Mrs. Carmody kept the tension level high and just didn't let the movie slow down for an artificially inflated tension for the ending.
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