The most interesting of these characters is a Bible-toting, fire-and-brimstone spewing shrew named Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden)—who provides one of the most hateful and vicious "Christian" characters in recent cinematic history. From the get-go, Mrs. Carmody explains the mist and its apparent monsters in terms of the apocalypse: "It's the end of days! It's death! It's judgment day! Star Wormwood blazes!" A "vengeful, Old Testament God" unleashing his wrath through these "plagues" For all Christians, the character of Mrs. Carmody should frustrate you. She's such a stereotype of bigotry and hate: the oft-portrayed right-wing Christian more interested in doling out judgment than spreading grace and love. Fortunately, her villainous persona within the film is so obviously a distortion of real Christianity, one hopes that the average audience member will recognize her as an anomaly rather than archetype. Still, there is a definite feeling in the film that Christianity—or religion in general—is at best a false hope and at worst a justification for the negative instincts of human nature. Mrs. Carmody and the religious fanatics apocalypse talk may sound ridiculous, but when it's the only explanation or solution offered, people will grab hold of it mindlessly, frantically, and (in the case of this film) violently. You might want to go to my "Christian Terms" section. While there check out the words Expiation (a popular word in this movie) and Propitiation Other on-line critics: This is another one of those preachy movies and it ends up making Christians out to be a bunch of evil Nazi and most everyone else to be retarded. How original. Another movie with a psycho 'Christian' character. How bout some movies that portray Christians realistically for once. I was going to see it but now I'll pass You know I am a Christian and I'll be the first to say that Christians are just as messed up as everyone else. In fact, that's the point. But we have been known to have affairs (even gay affairs), steal, lie, cheat, kill, and all the other cruddy stuff people do. So it doesn't bother me that they have a Christian in the movie who is less than awesome. What bothers me is, I think I've seen this movie about four times before. At least twice, with The Fog and... The Fog remake. I don't really want to see it again. I would like to personally apologize for all the crazy "Christians" out there who give the rest of us a bad name. I'm sure you also realize that Hollywood usually makes the Christians in movies look crazy and that's what everyone assumes we are all like. It seriously irritates me.