Kodolmaizite

From first 20min it was forbiddingly clear - it's not up to par with the 2007 Mist by Darabont.

Here we have altered premise (no problems, I encourage artistic freedom), altered setting (no problems), altered and dumbed-down cast- which I have major problems with.

Came for the 90's Horror feel, which I kind of caught, and stayed for the same reason, dealing with the traditional TV dumbness - stupid and counter-productive actions by characters, a football player that's no stronger than a faggot despite obvious body types and masses, characters that are, well, brainless even before the Mist came...

This TV series continue the King's seemingly bad luck with screening of his works, and I can only think one: How can you take such a body of work from which Silent Hill arose, and dumb it down to such a miserable TV levels?

By comparison - 2007 Mist feels like a masterpiece! Well, soon we'll have continuation of Stranger Things - which, being a mere love letter to authors of 90's - like King and Koontz, still do far, far better job of doing it right.

Uninspired and quite a lot missing here. But, to be fair, this Mist has some pleasurable moments here and there.

First of all, let's get one thing clear: this movie is not about Scandinavian Doom Metal as the previous reviewer puts it. Hell, even I'm not sure exactly what this film is exactly about - but what I know - the last half an hour consists of pretty decent Shoegazing kind of Raw Black Metal.

Not the satanic stuff, mind you. Yes, there are healthy dosage of different themes explored in Black Metal, besides the traditional anti-religious stuff.

So, that being said, the only giveaway of this later section of this enjoyable film is the title font and the end of the movie itself. Other than that the movie hides it's Black Metal and portrays a mellow lifestyle that's somewhat slow, somewhat woody and somewhat butt-plugged. Yeah. Somewhat even Hippy. And yes, here they are - terms "Hippy" and "Black Metal" put together in one review, in a complimentary sense.

This movie will be shown at an open-air cinema festival in Latvia. And I'm wondering - how many clueless people will soil their pants at the end of the movie? How many people will just walk away from the las 45-or so minutes of the film? How many people will feel that they bought tickets for the wrong film?

And how many people will just head-bang the living crap out of their necks, when the tremolo picking and blast-beats kick in? A fun pieces of thought to entertain.

Overall - this is a different kind of documentary that deals with themes common in Black Metal (except the lively Hippy stuff). It's very slow, deliberate and in times - funny as the concept of Hell itself.

It depicts various things.

It depicts a group of people living in a friendly and philosophical community. It depicts some gorgeous forest scenes in those slow and moody scenes.

And it depicts a man that lives in this community, that enjoys the woods somewhat more that the average person does, and this man happens to play in a Black Metal band. You can't go wrong with this combo!

An interesting combination of elements, and therefore an interesting film to watch.

7/10 easily.

GOD, how I hate this kind of storytelling - as if our host is the first one to discover all the things - but these "questions" and "found" "answers" had been answered a long time ago - so why does even this style of documentary exist? To feed upon brainless wallets? To entertain the fools? I'm no friggin interested in building a crappy bridge just to follow in someones footsteps (I want information about the site and object, not some useless side stories), but unfortunately our host does this in order just to do what "first" discoverer, but in the next scenes our expert on topic miraculously awaits us on place of interest and later we are taking a helicopter and exploring stuff. Just plain stupidity. Why couldn't he (jost) just pick up the damn book in the first place and tell the whole story instead of being a uselessly hiking douche-bag, with fake questions and answers, which have yet to be "discovered".

I hate this style!