If you want to keep your anxiety down, I would avoid this one; it's pure nightmare fuel. Not because the monsters are terrifying (even though they are)--because of the people. Marcia Gay Harden's Mrs. Carmody is a religious fanatic on (what seems to be) the actual Judgment Day. (Roll that around for a minute...)

In mood and philosophical approach, this movie is the opposite of Darabont's previous Stephen King adaptation. It's The Shawshank Redemption's evil twin brother.