25 Best Movies of the Decade: 11

"What we saw was impossible. You know that, don't you? What do we say? How do we convince them? Ollie, what the hell were those tentacles even attached to?"

11. The Mist(2007)

Fear is what drives us. Everything we're afraid of, we can recognize and thusly have some kind of coping mechanism. But what if we didn't know what we feared? What if there was something out there, in the darkness, waiting to kill you? Would you try to cope under extreme circumstances or would you fight to survive?

David Drayton is soon forced to face this question as he and a choice number of fellow citizens find themselves trapped in a local grocery store trying to survive a mysterious fog filled with murderous creatures. Locked inside with a number of people trying to make sense of what has happened, the survivors slowly break down from stress and fear and eventually become devoted followers of unstable religious fanatic Mrs. Carmody, who soon tries to commit sacrifices to drive away the monsters.

By the end of the film, though, Drayton can't seem to leave the mist and, faced under immense pressure, has to make one of the most daunting choices any human being could make. One that he almost immediately regrets.