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(2007)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence, terror and gore, and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Non-graphic flirting occurs.
  • At the beginning of the movie, an older woman has her nipples poking through her shirt.
  • Barely any.
  • A kissing scene between a man and a woman. Not graphic/explicit. Lasts 5 seconds.

Violence & Gore

  • Hostile alien creatures attack people in violent, and gruesome ways.
  • An injured man begs for help; he twitches, his skin begins to bubble and swell, and spider-like creatures burst out of his face (blood and tissue spurt).
  • A large crab/spider creature is shot and it splatters, and many other similar creatures begin spraying strands of acidic web: One man's leg is wrapped with webbing, he screams and his leg bleeds. A man wrapped in webbing falls to the floor and many small spider-like creatures break out of his back (blood and matter are sprayed) One man is sprayed in the face with acidic webbing (he falls to the ground screaming and a large creature comes and devours him) A woman sprays a creature with flames the creature burns. Dead man is covered by many small spider-like creatures, which appear to be eating his body.
  • A man is bitten in the back of the head by a large flying creature, and it pecks at his head and pulls strands of tissue out the back of his head (we see a large pool of blood on the floor).
  • We see many buildings and overturned cars covered with webbing, we see people covered with webbing and hanging from walls of buildings, and we see a school bus with a person inside covered with webbing.
  • A man punches another man in the face a few times (we see him with a bloody face). A woman slaps a woman in the face trying to stop her from talking and scaring people.
  • A man runs into a mist trying to reach his car, and we see him disappear into the mist and hear him screaming.
  • A mist moves over a store, the building begins to shake, shelving and light fixtures fall onto the people inside and we see a few people with injuries after. We hear a loud storm blowing outside a house, lightning, thunder and a thick cloud moves over a lake, the power is knocked out, a family goes to their basement and a huge tree breaks through their front window (no one is harmed). Some aftermath of the event is shown.
  • A man checking out a generator disables it, the lights turn off, and he strikes his head on a door-jamb, trips and falls to the floor.
  • A man with a bloody nose and blood on his shirt runs in a panic through a street and into a store and tells people that another man was taken away by something in the mist.
  • A woman tells people to prepare to meet their maker and that God is a vengeful god.
  • A boy asks his father to promise not to let the monsters get him. A boy pleads with his father not to leave him.
  • A man talks (in jest) about a crashed spaceship with frozen aliens inside it being kept in a military installation near where he lives.

Profanity

  • 14 F-words and its derivatives, 1 sexual reference, 29 scatological terms, 12 anatomical terms, 14 mild obscenities, name-calling (stupid, hicks, lunacy, crazy), 6 religious profanities, and 30 religious exclamations. And a man calls his chainsaw a cocksucker. A woman is called a whore several times.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A woman commits suicide by taking an overdose of pills. A man smokes a cigarette. A few people drink beer.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Sex & Nudity

  • A religious fundamentalist calls a young woman a "whore" and implies that she has slept around.

Violence & Gore

  • A large tentacle grabs a young man by the leg; another man grabs the young man's hands and tries to pull him back inside, other tentacles begin to reach inside (several with large spikes on the sides), one strikes the young man and tears the skin off his leg, down to the bone (we see blood and bone), another strikes him on the shoulder (blood and tissue are visible and the young man screams), and he is pulled away, striking his head on the door and disappearing into the mist; the door is then closed on a tentacle and a piece is cut off by a man with an axe.
  • A window breaks and bugs get inside a store, a woman swats one bug to the floor and steps on it (we see goo on the floor and her shoe), and a young woman is stung on the neck, thrashes and convulses on the floor, her face swells and she dies.
  • A person is viciously attacked by an angry mob of people, and is beaten, stabbed repeatedly (some blood is shown), and thrown outside where a creature drags him away, screaming.
  • A person has a rope tied around their waist and walks out into the mist. While it is not seen, it is heavily implied the person is attacked by the creatures; As the rope is reeled back in, we see blood on the rope, and eventually the bloody severed lower half of a man, with some entrails visible.
  • A man is grabbed by a large claw and taken into a mist, another man is jumped by a smaller creature that eats him (we hear screaming and gnashing), and another man is surrounded by several creatures and eaten; a blood covered pistol falls onto the hood of a car where five people are hiding, one man reaches to get the gun and a creature charges toward him (it walks over the roof of the car and away).
  • A man tries to light a torch to burn large flying creatures that have come into a store, he spills a bucket of flammable liquid, the puddle catches fire and so does he, he runs around trying to put the flames out and we see him later with severely charred and raw skin on his head, face and chest.
  • A woman is shot in the stomach and the head (blood splatters and pools on the floor).
  • A large flying creature is set on fire and it flies through a store in a panic and a man with an axe chases the creature and eventually strikes it repeatedly until it is dead. A large flying creature is shot twice and dies.
  • Two men hang themselves (we see them swinging from ropes around their necks). A woman commits suicide by taking an overdose of pills (we see her lying dead). A badly burned man pleads for someone to kill him.
  • Several people try to leave a store and they are surrounded by people with knives, who try to grab a boy and threaten to sacrifice him.
  • We hear gunshots, see flashes from inside a car and see blood splatter on the windows and upholstery. It is implied that the main character has shot his son and two elderly people. He then screams in anguish. Can be EXTREMELY disturbing, especially to younger viewers.
  • A woman desperate to get home to her young children, who are alone, walks into the mist and disappears (we do not hear a scream).
  • Some talk is made about the End of Days and the need to sacrifice someone to appease God.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The character Ollie begins drinking heavily out of fear, and his boss, Bud, berates him for it, later laughing that the men who claim to have seen tentacles probably "saw them coming outta the beer cans".

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Bud Brown gets lost in the parking lot and nearly gets killed, but is let back into the supermarket after begging to go back. He's later seen with tears in his eyes as he gets left behind by his friends.
  • A man, distraught at having killed his friends and son and seeing his wife killed, tries to shoot himself in the head, but is out of bullets. He then begins to scream in grief when he realizes that the military is containing the mist and that if they had waited just a few more minutes, they would be alive and safe.
  • Children are at risk throughout and there is a teenager killed.
  • These alien-bugs sting people and they get blisters all over and they swell up. Multiple suicides are distressing.
  • A young man is killed as a religious sacrifice "to the beast".
  • A person persuades people to sacrifice other people from their ranks (including a small boy) as reparation for the sins of mankind. The scenes can be quite frightening and disturbing, especially to younger viewers; a very realistic account of group psychology in stress situations.
  • Throughout the film, there is an abundance of violence, gore, and emotionally intense situations. The story was written as a realistic portrayal of how human beings would react to supernatural horrors while trapped in an enclosed space together. Panic, paranoia and violence against each other is shown.
  • The ending is extremely depressing and very hard to watch.

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