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The Mist

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The Mist	comment	The Mist is a 1980 horror novella written by Stephen King for a horror anthology titled Dark Forces and later included of the 1985 King collection Skeleton Crew. The story revolves around some of the inhabitants of a small town in Maine who find themselves trapped in the local supermarket when, following a violent thunderstorm, a thick unnatural mist envelopes the area. While tensions arise within the group, the survivors face vicious attack from abnormal creatures prowling in the mist.A film adaptation was released in 2007, marketed as Stephen King's The Mist. The film is written and directed by Frank Darabont, who had previously adapted Stephen King's work and had been interested in adapting The Mist for the big screen since the 1980s.It features an ensemble cast including Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, Andre Braugher, Alexa Davalos and Sam Witwer. Darabont began filming The Mist in Shreveport, Louisiana in February 2007. The director changed the ending of the film to be darker than the novella's ending, a change to which Stephen King was amicable. Unique creature designs were also sought to differ from creatures in past films.A television series adaptation aired on Spike TV in 2017.Not to be confused with Miguel de Unamuno's novella Mist, John Carpenter's film The Fog or James Herbert's novel The Fog (1975).
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The Mist / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
The Mist / int_113472aa	comment	Miles Gloriosus: Both Jim and Myron talk big, projecting a tough guy persona, and treat David with contempt for having "jitters". When Norm is attacked by the tentacles, they completely freeze, unable to to anything, while it's David and Ollie who try their very best to save the kid.
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The Mist / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Mist / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Private Jessup was not in the original novella, whereas in the film he's one of the soldiers who arrived at the supermarket very shortly before the mist came. He also gives a more definitive explanation that the Arrowhead Project caused the mist, whereas in the book it's just something that Ollie and David speculate.
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The Mist / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Mist / int_1235f055	comment	Jim mockingly questions David's masculinity and bravery when he he advises against risking the teenage bagboy's life on a fool's errand, but whenever Jim himself is in danger he consistently puts his own self-preservation first. Given when the movie came out, this is often read as a commentary on people who supported the invasion of Iraq.
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The Mist / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Mist / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: As the situation becomes more and more dangerous—both from the monsters within the mist and the survivors in the store—the body count climbs higher and higher. By the end of the story, Ollie, Mrs. Carmody, Dan Miller, Norm, and others are all dead. The movie has an even higher body count, due in no small part to added characters and Death by Adaptation.
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The Mist / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Mist / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Averted for once in the movie, although a store window is labeled "King's Pharmacy" in a nod to the author's usual bit parts.
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The Mist / int_146e133b	type	Tamer and Chaster
The Mist / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: In the novella, David is immediately sexually attracted to Amanda Dumfries. He tries to dismiss his lust as just a byproduct of the stress, especially because he still loves his wife Stephanie, but he still ends up having Sex for Solace with Amanda anyway. The film cuts this out and leaves it at sexual tension.
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The Mist / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Mist / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The film still manages to do so despite the original story already being pretty damn bleak. Instead of an uncertain but hopeful ending as David and the others continue their survival of the mist, the movie ends with David mistakenly mercy-killing the others and his son despite help shortly being on the way. The movie also adds a scene in which Private Jessup is sacrificed to a monster in the mist, cementing that Mrs. Carmody's followers have completely lost it.
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The Mist / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Mist / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Dan Miller, despite his horrifying first encounter with the mist killing John Lee right in front of him, is the one who first proposes an expedition to the nearby pharmacy. He accompanies David and the others in spite of the unknown monsters lurking in the mist. In the book, he's killed during this venture, but in the film he lives long enough to make it to David's car with the others. He's consistently presented as brave, level-headed, and compassionate. Ambrose Cornell - the guy with the big mustache - is another old man who joins in on David's group. Smart and plain spoken, he has a shotgun in his truck that he would have gone to get himself if the others hadn't advised him against it. He escapes the store with the others, but whereas in the book he runs back inside after the spiders return, he goes down fighting the spiders in the parking lot.
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The Mist / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Mist / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: After Mrs. Carmody is able to create a cult, she convinces them to sacrifice the soldier to the creatures to keep them at bay and is about to try to sacrifice Billy before Ollie finally shoots her.
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The Mist / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
The Mist / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: In the book, when David has sex with Amanda, she calls out somebody else's name. He doesn't care.
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The Mist / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Mist / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: David. He has his young son Billy with him in the supermarket, and part of his will to survive against the monsters is getting back to his son alive. He promises he won't let the monsters get Billy, and he keeps that promise.
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The Mist / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Mist / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: Every member of Mrs. Carmody's cult follows her commands, no matter how insane or reprehensible they may sound to the audience's ears.
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The Mist / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Mist / int_1e1aa82a	comment	In the film, the mist is actually defeated, as we see the military torching it and taking down the creatures within, making the ending situation for the world at large considerably more positive than the book's. That said, what happens to the main characters makes any and all positivity in the ending very easy to overlook entirely.
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The Mist / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Mist / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Several. The lingering threat of all of these is what motivates the movie's infamous Cruel Twist Ending. The MP webbed up in the pharmacy store is revealed to be in critical condition from spiders nesting under his skin, until he falls to the floor, and his entire torso explodes with thousands of spiders crawling out of his corpse. Sally, after being stung by one of the giant insects, instantly has her throat swell up until she suffocates. A couple of David's group members take acidic web strands from the giant spiders. While one is shot in the leg, the other is shot square in the face. After accidentally setting himself on fire whilst attempting to drive the ptero-buzzards out of the market, Joe Eagleton lingers for at least a day in unbearable agony before finally succumbing to his burns. Made even worse because the other characters denied his request for a Mercy Kill in order to mount a risky expedition to the adjacent pharmacy for painkillers and antibiotics, which wound up getting Joe's brother killed. On top of that, although they returned with the right medicine, it turned out to be too late to save him anyway. While in the back storage room, Norm meets his fate when tentacles from some unseen monster reach in and take him. It's even worse in the film, where the tentacles first rip off skin from his chest and leg. Ollie gets cut in half by a giant mantis-like monster while trying to escape from the supermarket with David's group.
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The Mist / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Mist / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: In the movie, when the biker goes out to get Ambrose's shotgun from his truck, they tie a rope to his waist just to be safe. A few seconds after walking into the fog, the rope starts to rapidly shoot out into the mist and uses up the entirety of its length before rising high into the air and dropping back down. The people inside the store pull the rope back to see that his legs and torso are gone, and his waist is all that remains. In the book, the guy with the rope is one of Norton's "Flat-Earthers", and when it's pulled back there is only the end of the rope, covered in blood and chewed through.
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The Mist / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Mist / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Steff's fate is left unknown in the novella, as the road to David's house has too much deadfall to navigate through. The film does have David reach their home, and shows her All Webbed Up outside.
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The Mist / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Mist / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The store's manager Bud Brown comes across as sort of low-level version of this. Despite everything that's happening, he insists on writing down the name of everyone drinking beer that they did not purchase, though once the scale of the situation really hits him, he abandons this behaviour. Amoral Attorney Brent Norton can qualify too due to his vehement disbelief in the supernatural and his Upper-Class Twit attitude.
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The Mist / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
The Mist / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: The film is considerably more gruesome than its book counterpart. Norm in the book is still Eaten Alive by the tentacles, but the film also adds said tentacles tearing flesh from his chest and leg. In the novella, when David pulls back the clothesline that was attached to one of Norton's "flat earthers", all he gets is a frayed end soaked in blood. The film has him pulling back the severed lower half of the man's corpse. After the novella's version of the bird-creature coming in through the store window, an unseen older woman has her leg broken after she's trampled by the crowd. The movie replaces this by a man being set on fire when he accidentally poured charcoal fluid while trying to fend off the creatures. We see his heavily burned body later in the film. When David's group goes to the pharmacy in the novella, they find a decapitated corpse. In the film, they find a man who has become a nursery for the Grey Widower's hatchlings—his back bursts open in a spray of gore and spiders when he hits the ground.
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The Mist / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
The Mist / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The survivors are time and time again struggling with both the horrors of the mist and infighting between them. First Norton and his "Flat-Earth" group refuse to take part in any of the others' precautions, believing that the whole thing is being blown out of proportion and there are no monsters. After he and his group are presumably killed when they leave, Mrs. Carmody's cult of broken and desperate survivors grows and grows, becoming more and more of a threat to those in David's group.
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The Mist / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Mist / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: There is an extra scene in which someone is killed and given to the monsters as an offering, which Stephen King said he should have thought of himself when writing the story. He has said the same regarding the film's darker ending.
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The Mist / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Mist / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Deliberate example. The film is set around 2006/2007, yet the Army soldiers are all dressed in 1970s-era uniforms and equipment.
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The Mist / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Mist / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Several plot points come across as much more meaningful if you've read the Dark Tower series, which connects multiple Stephen King works to each other. David is painting a very Man With No Name-esque Roland of Gilead, from Stephen King's opus The Dark Tower, when the storm hits. The monsters, and the implications of the Arrowhead Project, also seem very similar to the Todash: the monster-populated primordial darkness between worlds, whose denizens are commanded by the Crimson King and can enter reality via dimension-breaching "thinnies"; although there are differences, as the creatures of the mist seem to be true animals from an alien environment rather than eldritch abominations from the Void Between the Worlds. The line "My life for you," spoken by Mrs. Carmody, has been said by a number of villainous characters in the Dark Tower books. Most notably Trashcan Man in The Stand, and Randall Flagg who's the true Big Bad of King's multiverse. This also implies that if there is a supernatural force guiding Mrs. Carmody's actions, then it isn't God. The severed tentacle in the store liquifies in the same way as the seemingly-extradimensional "things" which are summoned by the titular car in From a Buick 8 do in our world. Amanda Dumfries - no relation to Andy Dufresne?
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The Mist / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Mist / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In the film's ending, after running out of gas in their unsuccessful attempt at escaping the mist, the lead character mercy-kills his entire party including his own son (it would've been group suicide instead of euthanasia, but he was one bullet short). About one minute later the military finally shows up with tanks and flamethrowers, along with cars and cars full of survivors, meaning the insane cult they had just left to escape likely survived. To top it all off, among the survivors, he sees the woman brave enough to leave the supermarket at the beginning of the movie, and her children are fine as well.
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The Mist / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
The Mist / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: The soldiers of the US Army wear these, presumably to protect themselves from unknown pathogens or chemicals.
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The Mist / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Mist / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The woman near the start of the novella who leaves the store to go home to her children. In the movie, we learn what happens to her.
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The Mist / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
The Mist / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: The Eagletons, the biker, Cornell, Hattie, Bud and Myron, all of whom have some impact on the plot and a decent number of scenes, but less focus than the core characters.
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The Mist / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Mist / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Mrs Carmody. She gets more and more bonkers until she tries to have the entire group killed!
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The Mist / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
The Mist / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: Possibly the cruelest example in film history. In the final scene of the film, the military finally arrive, successfully taking out the mist and the monsters...after David just mercy-killed his friends and young son, thinking it was monsters coming for them and not help.
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The Mist / int_3033b958	type	Giant Enemy Crab
The Mist / int_3033b958	comment	Giant Enemy Crab: What finally manages to take out Ollie the assistant manager.
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The Mist / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Mist / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: In the radio play adaptation, town selectman Mike Hatlen is town selectwoman Stella Hatlen. She still shares her book counterpart's fate of winding up as spider chow.
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The Mist / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Mist / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Toby Jones (Ollie Meeks) has a full-on English accent for one line near the end of the movie.
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The Mist / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Mist / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: The "Impossibly Tall Creature", a skyscraper-sized monster that appears at the end. Well, at least it doesn't instantly attack the humans' car. It's so large (larger in the book, but still utterly gigantic in the film) that it probably doesn't even notice them. Which, given everything else, is probably for the best.
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The Mist / int_39eb5a6e	type	Sex Starts, Story Stops
The Mist / int_39eb5a6e	comment	Sex Starts, Story Stops: In the original story, David and Amanda—who are both married to someone else—randomly have Sex for Solace. This is only minimally brought up again after the fact. This is cut in the film, where Amanda is still clearly interested in David and David shows signs of reciprocating, but they never sleep together.
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The Mist / int_3b45f0aa	type	BiologicalMashup
The Mist / int_3b45f0aa	comment	Biological Mash Up: The Gray Widowers have incongruously human-like jaws in arachnid bodies. As if having too many legs to be actual spiders was not enough...
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The Mist / int_3b63ecb6	type	Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb
The Mist / int_3b63ecb6	comment	Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: Norm's behavior has shades of this. He's a teenager by David's guess, and in the novella's narration, David guesses that his determination to go outside into the mist to unblock the generator's exhaust pipe comes largely from trying to prove his masculinity. Afterward, David even laments that Norm, as a teenager, was "supposed to be dumb", before asking Myron and Jim what their excuse is.
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The Mist / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
The Mist / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: Lots of supermarket survivors (Silas the janitor, a father and daughter, three teenagers, an older cashier etc.) show up in lots of crowd scenes in the film but keep quiet, stick to the background, and (in some cases) avoid taking sides as David and Mrs. Carmody come to blows. Four others, Tom Smalley, Mike Hatlen, and the Eagleton brothers, arenâ€™t really part of Davidâ€™s core group but show up multiple times and try to help out against the monsters when they can in the first half of the film, generally to their detriment.
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The Mist / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Mist / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: It's pretty disgusting and pathetic how quickly fear and fanaticism take over after people took shelter in the supermarket. As Amanda disbelievingly points out, it doesn't even take two days!note Though in their defense, the people in the supermarket are in an incredibly stressful, frightening, and dangerous situation that they (possibly worst of all) are almost incapable of understanding or otherwise knowing what's going on
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The Mist / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Mist / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: Even though Mrs Carmody was right about not leaving the store, it didn't leave David with many options. Mrs Carmody was clearly warming up to sacrifice Billy, meaning that David and the others could have stuck around, except it would have almost undoubtedly led to both David and Billy's deaths, and also presumably the deaths of anybody who tried to stop it, or they could have gone outside and risk near-certain death from the monsters. Sure, it wasn't the monsters that got them, but still...
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The Mist / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Mist / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: At the end of the book, David, Amanda, Billy, and Mrs. Reppler are hunkering down in a Howard Johnson's with an uncertain future ahead. The mist and all its horrors are still going strong. Despite their grim circumstances, David is still holding out hope that they'll make it out. In the film, the mist is actually defeated, as we see the military torching it and taking down the creatures within, making the ending situation for the world at large considerably more positive than the book's. That said, what happens to the main characters makes any and all positivity in the ending very easy to overlook entirely.
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The Mist / int_46f86041	type	Bad Vibrations
The Mist / int_46f86041	comment	Bad Vibrations: David's group is only able to stare up in horror as the entire van bounces from the Behemoth's steps. Its feet tug against and snap power lines, toppling telephone poles with them.
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The Mist / int_471bde4	type	All Webbed Up
The Mist / int_471bde4	comment	All Webbed Up: Done rather effectively with the spider-like monsters in the pharmacy. Made worse because the webs are coated in caustic secretions.
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The Mist / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Mist / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Mrs. Carmody eventually convinces her cult to sacrifice Billy in hopes of making the creatures lose interest in the cult, and, presumably, because she sees David as a threat to her authority. Ollie shoots her before her followers can act on the order, however. The monsters too. In one scene, there is a school bus shown with dead children in it.
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The Mist / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Mist / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: At the end of the book, Billy, Amanda, and Mrs. Reppler are all still alive, though looking towards uncertain survival within the mist. Here, David mercy-kills them (along with Dan Miller) when it seems that they've run out of all hope. Although he finally makes it back home with his car, David is ultimately unable to see if his wife Stephanie is still alive inside the house, with no way of getting there without entering the mist. He makes the tough decision of leaving her behind, dead or alive. In the film, we see her corpse outside the house, apparently killed by the Grey Widowers. Myron, having had his role largely swapped with Jim, dies in his place, getting eaten by a Grey Widower on the way to the car. Ambrose, who in the novella escapes back to the supermarket while making an aborted car park escape, ends up having his path to safety cut off by the same creatures, and gets pounced upon and audibly torn apart off-screen, while Bud Brown takes his place of running back to the store. Sally is only a minor character in the book who is presumably still alive in the supermarket when David and the others leave. In the film, she's stung by a bug in the throat, and suffocates from the swelling.
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The Mist / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Mist / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The scene at the end of the film where David shoots his son and the other three passengers. Then you hear a scream of pure anguish.
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The Mist / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Mist / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: Frank Darabont infamously changed the ending from the novella into a Diabolus ex Machina for the film. The original left it on a more ambiguous note, with the survivors facing an uncertain fate with the whole world apparently overrun by the monsters from the mist. In the film the main character reluctantly decides to shoot his companions to save them from a more horrible death mere minutes before the mist suddenly starts to dissipate and the army rolls in to clear the area. Stephen King has said that he actually preferred this version to the one that he wrote.
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The Mist / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Mist / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: If they get scared enough, humans become downright monsters, which is actually the point of the whole story. The "monsters" from the mist are just animals (granted, dangerous, mostly predatory alien ones) doing what comes naturally.
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The Mist / int_4bfd2125	type	Straw Vulcan
The Mist / int_4bfd2125	comment	Straw Vulcan: Norton and his group of skeptics who leave the store because they don't believe there are any monsters in the mist. Lets back up a step. If the skeptics are right about the mist being natural and stay in the store, then the weather will blow over in a few hours to a day, or someone will come by looking for the grocery store and update them on the situation - after all, they know there's some kind of disaster going on, and for all they know the mist itself is some kind of poison gas. They are on their way after a short delay, at most a minor inconvenience. If the other groups are right about the mist and there are monsters outside, the best bet for survival is not to go outside to be picked off by the monsters. The risk analysis of the situation, however low the probability of lethal monsters, would point to staying in the well stocked grocery store and not wandering off. So of course they choose the 'rational choice' after concluding there are no monsters and immediately decide to leave. Norton tells David right before he leaves that if he's wrong the joke will be on him. Poor decision or not, he is at least willing to admit that much. In the novella, David thinks that Norton is, at some level, committing deliberate suicide.
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The Mist / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Mist / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The movie, while the novella is more ambiguous: After losing many of their allies to both the monsters and each other (with some dying in front of them no less), David, Amanda, Billy, Dan and Irene reach David's car and escape the supermarket. After driving home to find his wife dead, David drives on but their car eventually runs out of gas. With no sign of escaping the mist, David shoots his son and everybody in the car, but comes up one bullet short to kill himself. He then steps out into the mist to be killed. But instead of monsters, the military emerge from the mist and destroy it as he screams in anguish, because it means that help was literally seconds away and that he killed five people, including his own son for no reason, meaning that his actions that got his own group members killed were All for Nothing. You know an ending is dark when the death of the monster and humanity surviving doesn't make it much happier. Stephen King was shocked by the ending, and wished he had come up with it himself.
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The Mist / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Mist / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: A powerfully unexpected shot kicks off the infamous twist ending. After David mercy kills the other survivors on his car, he exits the car and looks into the mist, shouting for the monsters to come and kill him. David hears something large is approaching in the mist, and his expression changes from one of desperation to one of shock. The shot turns around, and looks over David's shoulder into the mist. The large object emerges from the mist. Instead of a monster like what David and the audience expects, it's a tank from the US army.
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The Mist / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Mist / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: A very prominent example in the pharmacy; the reason that one of the men in that place is still alive is because he is serving as a nursery to several hundred infant Grey Widowers. Also the fate of Sally, who swells up like a balloon after a sting from one of the insect-like monsters.
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The Mist / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Mist / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Beauty certainly lies in the eye of the beholder, but Marcia Gay Harden is not quite the old hag Mrs. Carmody is portrayed as in the book. The same can apply to Ollie Weeks. Ollie in the novel is described as heavily overweight, but he's played by Toby Jones.
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The Mist / int_55d919f7	type	Lovecraft Lite
The Mist / int_55d919f7	comment	Lovecraft Lite: Unusually enough it ends up being this in the movie. At the very end, the seemingly unstoppable Mist is killed by the military. Though you can't call it a happy ending for David.
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The Mist / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
The Mist / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Meek, unassuming assistant manager Ollie Weeks proves that he's actually pretty handy with a pistol, much to the surprise and unease of his boss. He makes every shot he takes with his handgun, a phenomenal feat considering how terrifying and weird the monsters are, while maintaining presence of mind enough to refuse to take shots that would endanger other people. Well, right up until he has to kill a person and has a nervous breakdown because of it... In general, he handles the crisis/subsequent nightmare better than everybody else except for maybe David, but David is the main protagonist so this is expected.
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The Mist / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
The Mist / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Although it is never stated outright, the secretive Arrowhead Project at the Shaymore military base (which is in the same direction that the mist came down from) is believed by some of the characters to be the cause of the disaster. In the movie, one of the soldiers in the store lends further credence to the theory.
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The Mist / int_5edb884e	type	Face of a Thug
The Mist / int_5edb884e	comment	Defied by the biker, quoted above under Face of a Thug.
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The Mist / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Mist / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: This happens to the majority of the store patrons, but special mention goes to Jim, who grows more and more shell-shocked from the monsters and the deaths caused by them, before he finally snaps and joins Mrs. Carmody's cult.
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The Mist / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Mist / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: David gives it to Jim once fighting off the monster that killed Norm, all while Jim did nothing to help, behaving like a deer in a headlight. Prior to that, Jim ridiculed David for being paranoid about "bogeymen" and wanted to be a tough guy. The glare quickly escalates to going physical.
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The Mist / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Mist / int_6439de78	comment	A counterpoint appears in the form of the biker who tells Mrs. Carmody that he believes in God, too, but doesn't think of God as the "bloodthirsty asshole" Mrs. Carmody makes Him out to be. He's presented as a very brave, admirable guy - even if his Heroic Sacrifice turns out to be for All for Nothing.
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The Mist / int_68148dc	type	Militaries Are Useless
The Mist / int_68148dc	comment	Militaries Are Useless: The army is responsible for the disaster, and are incapable of quickly (if at all) fighting back against the horrors they unleashed upon the world. In the book version, David and the other supermarket survivors are still without military help four days into the mess. Averted at the end of the film version. The military eventually deploys in force and begins to clear out the Mist ecology, ironically supplying the punchline to the Cruel Twist Ending.
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The Mist / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
The Mist / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: The mist is filled with bizarre, otherworldly creatures, from three-foot-long dragonflies to behemoths too large to see through the mist. It's speculated by the survivors that they come from another dimension which the Arrowhead Project ended up accessing. Despite the extreme danger they pose, they are apparently only animals, and seemingly only attack humans when they smell them for food.
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The Mist / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Mist / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being nothing short of unpleasant, Mrs. Carmody did advise against venturing outside the grocery store, warning anybody who did leave that they would die out in the mist. Every group that attempted to escape was attacked, with fatalities occurring each time. Justified in that most of those who followed her most likely survived, or at least were not shown to have the same grim outcome as her naysayers did in the film adaptation.
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The Mist / int_6b22aace	type	Not So Invincible After All
The Mist / int_6b22aace	comment	Not So Invincible After All: The creatures in the mist are an incomprehensible threat to the frightened, trapped civilians, but in the movie at least they are no match against trained soldiers armed with automatic weapons, tanks, and flamethrowers.
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The Mist / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Mist / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The two soldiers trapped in the supermarket hang themselves giving credence to the idea that the mist was caused by a secret government experiment. In the film, a third is left alive to try and explain the situation. Also, several people in the supermarket commit suicide by overdose. Also in the movie, the group of survivors plan to kill themselves to avoid a Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands (claws? Tentacles?) of the creatures in the mist. This ends very badly. Heroine Amanda Dumfries, who has been looking after Billy, discovers her friend Hattie has committed suicide by overdose after almost getting Billy killed during the monster insect attack.
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The Mist / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Mist / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Played with. William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Brian Libby all featured in Frank Darabont's "The Green Mile" and "The Shawshank Redemption." Andre Braugher co-starred in the television remake of "Salem's Lot." Freddie Jones, the father of Toby Jones, co-starred in "Firestarter."
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The Mist / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
The Mist / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: In-house rumors about the top-secret Arrowhead Project state that the military was attempting to open a portal to another universe, which explains the mist and its monsters.
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The Mist / int_730c2e3	type	Void Between the Worlds
The Mist / int_730c2e3	comment	The monsters, and the implications of the Arrowhead Project, also seem very similar to the Todash: the monster-populated primordial darkness between worlds, whose denizens are commanded by the Crimson King and can enter reality via dimension-breaching "thinnies"; although there are differences, as the creatures of the mist seem to be true animals from an alien environment rather than eldritch abominations from the Void Between the Worlds.
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The Mist / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
The Mist / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The film's ending. Good God, the film's ending! The book ends with the survivors hunkering down in a Howard Johnson's, and David narrates that although things are dire, he's still holding onto hope that they can reach a safe haven. The movie ends with the survivors looking between being killed by the monsters of the mist or taking their own lives—they go with the latter, but now out of bullets, David faces an incoming sound from the mist...and it turns out to be the military, meaning that if they'd just waited a few more minutes, the others (including David's son) would have been saved.
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The Mist / int_7337ba69	type	Food Chain of Evil
The Mist / int_7337ba69	comment	Food Chain of Evil: The bat/bird-things prey on the fly/wasp-things. Both also prey on humans.
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The Mist / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Mist / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Amanda in the novella largely stays away from the action, and is reduced to a screaming mess during the escape to the car. In the film she takes part in fighting back against the bugs and birds that come through the glass and mostly keeps her cool.
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The Mist / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Mist / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The fate of the woman with the kids at home was left ambiguous after she left in the book. The film showed that she and her kids managed to survive. Jim is killed in the novella, but is presumably still alive in the film. Narrowly subverted by Dan Miller, who dies in both versions. In the book, he is killed during the pharmacy expedition. In the film, he is one of the few who actually makes it to the car out, almost surviving the entire movie.
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The Mist / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
The Mist / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: Despite Mrs Carmody's insanity, she was right that nobody should leave the store because of the creatures within the mist.
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The Mist / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
The Mist / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: Mrs Carmody believes that God can only be appeased through blood and sacrifice. She believed that the event mirrored passages from the Bible and she wanted people to repeat The Binding of Isaac in order to appease him. At first people didn't believe her but when one of the insects had lost interest in her after landing on her, they started agreeing with her beliefs and believed that Carmody had divine protection by being God's vessel. Defied by the biker, quoted above under Face of a Thug.
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The Mist / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
The Mist / int_77666408	comment	Combat Tentacles: Whatever it was that drags poor Norm to his doom possesses these in spades.
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The Mist / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
The Mist / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Mrs. Reppler. David states in the novella that she had "terrified generations of third-graders". Ultimately a Cool Old Lady though.
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The Mist / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
The Mist / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: The entire point of the movie is to show how most people would believe any notion, no matter how crazy it sounds on paper, and commit any atrocity when put in a sufficiently incomprehensible and dangerous situation. A counterpoint appears in the form of the biker who tells Mrs. Carmody that he believes in God, too, but doesn't think of God as the "bloodthirsty asshole" Mrs. Carmody makes Him out to be. He's presented as a very brave, admirable guy - even if his Heroic Sacrifice turns out to be for All for Nothing.
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The Mist / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Mist / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Near the end, some of the monsters grow... big. In the novella, the heroes nearly run into the footprint of one - and it engulfs the entire road. They see it earlier, and it has some rather large bird-like things hanging from its back.
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The Mist / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
The Mist / int_7e07f634	comment	The other children in the store are conspicuously missing in the final scenes. Which gives off some unsettling implications.
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The Mist / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Mist / int_7febc23b	comment	Jim Grondin, whose Establishing Character Moment has him pointlessly endangering Norm the bagboy, accusing David of cowardice when he advises against it, and then immediately freezing up when Norm needs help (while David and Ollie spring into action). Jim comes across as a selfish Dirty Coward throughout the movie, and eventually becomes one of Mrs. Carmody's most fervent supporters.
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The Mist / int_801a35a5	type	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending
The Mist / int_801a35a5	comment	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: Inverted in the film, which compared to the book actually has a more optimistic situation at the end... for the world, much to the absolute despair of the protagonist in light of what he had just done under the belief that all was lost.
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The Mist / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
The Mist / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Irene Reppler, the elderly school teacher (played by Frances Sternhagen), fries a giant acid-spitting spider with a lighter and a can of bug-spray, all the while having a terrifying facial expression in that way that only old ladies can. She also clocks Mrs. Carmody in the face with a can of peas, reminds her that the Old Testament was OK with stoning people to death, and then said there was plenty more where that came from. King has a knack for writing about capable older ladies. In the novella, David considers her the most competent member of his group, except maybe Ollie.
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The Mist / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Mist / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Marcia Gay Harden takes the cake for this. She takes a religious woman and makes her go from relatively sane to completely insane and it works. It's a great performance.
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The Mist / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
The Mist / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: As huge and dangerous they are, giant spiders and centipedes are still harmed by ordinary bug spray. The latter was cut out of the final draft however.
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The Mist / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Mist / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: In the film, Mrs. Carmody ends up being entirely correct in saying that everyone should stay holed up in the grocery store in order to survive. Her reasoning behind why, however, is completely skewed and ends up creating more problems than it solves given that it involves forming a tyrannical religious cult that is totally down with human sacrifices.
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The Mist / int_86000262	type	WilhelmScream
The Mist / int_86000262	comment	Wilhelm Scream: The infamous scream can be faintly heard amidst one man's other screams as the spider monsters mutilate him in the mist during the escape attempt from the store near the movie's end.
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The Mist / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Mist / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Carmody's remaining cult isn't seen again after David and his group kill her and leave the store for good. The cult was very likely saved by the army, as no one had any intention of leaving the store, assuming that - without Mrs. Carmody's bad influence - they were sensible enough to keep their heads down and not attract any more attention from the monsters. The fact that they let Bud back into the store supports this possibility. Frank Darabont reportedly wanted to show that the cult survived by showing them in one of the rescue trucks at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, most of the extras and actors were unavailable to do this, as their parts were finished. The other children in the store are conspicuously missing in the final scenes. Which gives off some unsettling implications.
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The Mist / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
The Mist / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Norton, for denying anything supernatural. David narrates that he thinks Norton is just incapable of accepting anything but a scientific explanation, for his own sanity's sake.
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The Mist / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Mist / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The monsters in the mist are alien and unfathomable, and their existence seems impossible, as their biology is far removed from anything on Earth. The tentacles on the largest monster, the Behemoth, certainly evoke Lovecraftian imagery as well. Although at the end of the day, they are biological organisms that can bleed and die. They even hunt each other in a fashion not unlike animals from our world. Their baseline viciousness (as opposed to true malevolence that Mrs. Carmody might assign them) does however outmatch our ecosystem by a truly scary margin. It must be a seriously hostile alien environment that they come from.
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The Mist / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The Mist / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: In the movie, Jim, one of the members of the pharmacy expedition, is reduced to a gibbering mess after his encounter with the spiders, including being grabbed from behind by the M.P. and witnessing spiderlets hatching from the MP's body. It breaks his mind, and he joins Carmody's cult as one of her most ruthless followers afterwards.
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The Mist / int_8acbc572	type	Fire and Brimstone Hell
The Mist / int_8acbc572	comment	Fire and Brimstone Hell: Mrs Carmody's interpretation of how one should be a Christian.
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The Mist / int_8b3ad439	type	Fog of Doom
The Mist / int_8b3ad439	comment	Fog of Doom: It's in the title.
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The Mist / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Mist / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim Mrs. Carmody takes advantage of the dire situation to preach her insane religious beliefs to other scared, desperate survivors. She takes every opportunity, including those where people's lives are on the line (or already taken), to be Holier Than Thou and look down upon the others for not believing in the truth. By the time David and a few others decide to leave, Mrs. Carmody has formed a cult that insists on a Human Sacrifice for the Mist, and tries to have her followers kill Amanda and Billy, and in the movie does sacrifice Private Jessup. Ollie eventually shoots her in what is basically an act of self-defense. Norton is a more conventional example. While certainly condescending and stuffy (and in the book, leery towards David's wife Stephanie), he's not quite an asshole until David tries to convince him of what's in the mist. Then Norton refuses to listen to any and all reason, even denying the chance to see physical proof that there are unseen horrors outside, and dismisses anything David says because he's sure David is just trying to get back at him over the property dispute. He also convinces several other scared survivors of the same mindset. He ends up digging his own grave when he and the others decide to walk out into the mist despite David and others' pleas with him not to go.
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The Mist / int_8fed141a	type	Bloody Handprint
The Mist / int_8fed141a	comment	Bloody Handprint: On the glass exit doors left by Private Jessup. It stays there for the rest of the film.
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The Mist / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Mist / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: In the film, this is the fate of the man who David asks to wear a rope around his waist just so the others can tell they made it so far. David ends up pulling back the lower half of his corpse still attached to the rope.
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The Mist / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Mist / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Depending on how far the mist traveled across the world, the novella and movie both depict an awful regional catastrophe, at least, and possibly anything ranging from a native multiple species extinction to the annihilation of the fabric of the universe. At the end of the film, a heavily-armed military clean-up crew is moving in and clearing the mist, implying a regional rather than worldwide catastrophe. In the radio play version at the very end over the radio from the rest of the country you hear: "Death comes. Death comes for all of us." This is also the last words heard from the Arrowhead Project, which is believed to be where the Mist came from in the first place. Even Darker and Edgier. The original novella ends with all of New England, at least, pulled into the mist, and the heroes left with one slender reed of hope four days after the disaster's onset.
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The Mist / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
The Mist / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: The entire setup. An otherworldly mist rolls into town, and with it, deadly creatures that cannot be explained.
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The Mist / int_94ce4e0	type	Black Blood
The Mist / int_94ce4e0	comment	Black Blood: One trailer retouches the blood on Dan's face when he enters the store at the beginning.
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The Mist / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Mist / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: While clearly insane, Mrs. Carmody remains rather collected for the most part, with the occasional aggressive outburst. However, it isn't until she catches David and the others trying to steal food and escape the store that she completely wigs out and screams for Billy, Amanda, and eventually the whole gang in the film, to be sacrificed to the monsters.
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The Mist / int_970a2346	type	Alternate Monochrome Version
The Mist / int_970a2346	comment	Alternate Monochrome Version: The film saw a black-and-white version released as a DVD extra. Director Frank Darabont claims that he always wanted to film the movie in black-and-white as a Genre Throwback to the pre-color work of Ray Harryhausen and classic horror films like Night of the Living Dead.
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The Mist / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Mist / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Despite all the alien nasties outside the store, the biggest threat turns out to be Mrs. Carmody, who soon forms a cult of terrified survivors with herself as the leader.
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The Mist / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Mist / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: In the book, David and the others escape from the store, but now have to deal with the creatures of the mist. He counts the bullets left in the gun. There's only three left, and he decides that if it comes down to it, he'll "figure something out" for himself. By the end of the book, he and the others are still holding out in a Howard Johnson's. However, the film goes through with it: when it seems that they are out of hope, David shoots all the other survivors in the car (including his son Billy) and still comes up one bullet short. The Cruel Twist Ending is that the sounds they heard approaching was actually the military coming to save them.
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The Mist / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
The Mist / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: Or at least multi-legged things that spin acidic webbing.
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The Mist / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Mist / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Fire is very effective against the monsters. A torch takes down one of the pterodactyl monsters, Irene uses an aerosol flamethrower to kill a spider monster, and the military uses flamethrowers to clear away the mist at the end.
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The Mist / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Mist / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A suspicious number of soldiers from the Army are seen going into the town early in the movie, and the three in the supermarket learn that their leave has just been cancelled, indicating there's something big happening that's being kept from the general public.
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The Mist / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Mist / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: This exchange from the movie:
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The Mist / int_a19a70f8	type	Evil Luddite
The Mist / int_a19a70f8	comment	Evil Luddite: The movie version of Carmody seems to think that any scientific advance past 1940 is an affront to God. Stem cells and abortions are surprisingly her last appeals to Science Is Bad, although she appears to be going roughly in chronological order.
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The Mist / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Mist / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Subtly present with Myron throughout the movie (his arc is different in the book). He begins as Jim's crony, joining him in encouraging Norm's pointless and ultimately fatal attempt to clear a vent, and freezing up when Norm needs help. Jim learns nothing from this failure and even gets worse over the course of the story, but Myron seems genuinely remorseful and supports David for the rest of the movie. There's a deleted scene where he tries to talk some sense into Jim. When Mrs. Carmody's cult starts to attack the surviving military officer, you can see Mrs. Carmody's shocked expression basically saying this, possibly her one moment of true sanity in the whole film... and then it melts away as she turns around and orders him thrown to the monsters as a sacrifice. Ollie has a short breakdown after gunning down Mrs. Carmody. Sure, she was a fanatic madwoman, a murderer in the film, and an attempted child-murderer who convinced her cult to use people as monster chow, but Ollie still felt the guilt of killing another human being. As the surviving heroes pull away in David's car toward the end, you can see what might be this on the faces of the people still inside the store. Without Mrs. Carmody's constant encouragement of their worst impulses, they seem to be realizing just what exactly she has turned them all into.
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The Mist / int_a24495b8	type	Attack of the Monster Appendage
The Mist / int_a24495b8	comment	Attack of the Monster Appendage: Part of the Monster Delay. When the men try to fix the generator they're attacked by a bunch of tentacles and one of them is dragged into the mist. We never know what the rest of the creature looks like.
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The Mist / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Mist / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: The film only. David's car runs out of gas, leaving him and the others stranded in a mist with the monsters that they can hear coming. They all silently decide that it's Better to Die than Be Killed, but with five of them in the car and only four bullets, David is left to figure something out for himself. With his mind broken from killing his friends and his young son, David leaves the car to face whatever monstrosity is coming for him. However, it turns out that what they heard was the military approaching, meaning that if they had just waited a few minutes more, they all would have been saved. The movie ends with David screaming in utter anguish as the military officers simply stare at him, unaware of what he's done.
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The Mist / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Mist / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: In the novella, Sally the cashier girl that works at the supermarket disappears quickly from the plot. She gets a larger role in the film and a romance subplot with Private Jessup before she's stung to death by one of the bugs.
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The Mist / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Mist / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: As noted in One-Woman Wail, the survivors' drive away from the supermarket across the misty, web-entangled New England landscape — and under a gigantic Eldritch Abomination — is set to Dead Can Dance's "The Host of Seraphim", making it even more haunting. And then it starts again when David sees the Army coming in through the mist after he just shot his son and companions.
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The Mist / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
The Mist / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: The main cause of death in the movie. The creatures of the mist all smell the humans as possible prey, so just about any encounter with them results in at least one person being eaten. (For what it's worth, the monsters eat each other as well...)
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The Mist / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
The Mist / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: Some of the monster attacks are more action-packed in the film than in the novella. In the novella, only one bird-thing gets through a broken window before David and the others kill it, whereas the film has a bird thing and several of the deadly bugs swarm in and take a few more lives. The original expedition to the pharmacy is rather short-lived, while the film's version is longer and has a few changes, such as giving Mrs. Reppler an improvised flamethrower as opposed to just a can of Raid.
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The Mist / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Mist / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The trip to the pharmacy, particularly in the movie. The reason the group went was to get medicine for a man who had set himself on fire accidentally, only the trip doesn't go as planned. Not only do some of the group die in the pharmacy, but they also fail to find the medicine. Even if they had succeeded, they learn upon returning to the store that the burn man died of his injuries while they were away.
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The Mist / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
The Mist / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: In the film, when Norm is dragged out by the tentacles and killed, Jim still tries to pretend none of this was his fault and still talks smack to David, who spend last few moments fighting for the kid's life. David shuts him up with a right hook, then starts beating him senseless. It's only Ollie's intervention that stops the beating.
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The Mist / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Mist / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted to tragic effect. Amanda only had twelve bullets for her gun, and only twelve shots are fired during the course of the movie. And then it turns out that twelve bullets were way too many.
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The Mist / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Mist / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Mrs. Carmody is shot by Ollie, after commanding her flock to sacrifice an innocent young boy to the monsters that invaded before slipping even harder and screaming "KILL THEM ALL!". The response from one of the flock: "You murdered her!" The book's narration by David even notes that no one spoke up to point out that she had been planning exactly that for his son.
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The Mist / int_b579ecc6	type	Gave Up Too Soon
The Mist / int_b579ecc6	comment	Gave Up Too Soon: The film's ending, as described elsewhere on this page, has become infamous as one of the cruelest cases of this trope ever.
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The Mist / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Mist / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Neighbour Brent Norton disregards David's and his own common sense to prove himself by walking straight outside into the creepy fog. The result shouldn't be surprising. And before he did that, when he was given a fair warning, he angrily dismissed everything David and every other person said to him, seeing it as an attempt to pull a prank on him and bringing up his hurt ego over an old lawsuit - and he remains unconvinced even when faced with evidence. This is further played-up in the film, where his Pride is near lethal before the mist even shows up. The survivors decide to take Mrs. Carmody's advice and use Human Sacrifice as a way to appease God and the creatures in the mist. That kind of stuff will only draw more monsters to the immediate area around the store. Predators swarm at the smell of blood or the chance for an easy meal, so sacrificing people was actually the stupidest thing they could've done. The mist creatures seem to hunt by sense of smell or hearing because of low visibility, so attracting them to the store with an easy, injured meal would've also alerted them to the people hiding inside of it.
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The Mist / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Mist / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Mrs. Carmody, who turns half the people trapped in the store into religious fanatics, making it increasingly more dangerous for those in the store that still have their sanity. And most watchers are likely to be thrilled upon watching her being "disposed of".
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The Mist / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Mist / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Mrs. Carmody again. She believes that she is God's "vessel" among the survivors. When the others reject her ideas for blood sacrifice and other insane beliefs, she declares that they are the disbelievers who brought down God's wrath to begin with.
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The Mist / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Mist / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: Dan Miller. In the book, he is killed during the trip to the pharmacy alongside Mike Hatlen and Buddy Eagleton. In the movie, he survives, only to die later during the Downer Ending when David shoots everyone in the Land Cruiser. Hattie also joins David's group in leaving the store in the book, but is killed by the spiders in the parking lot. In the film, she commits suicide by overdose a little over halfway through.
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The Mist / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
The Mist / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The monsters have either yellow, black, or brown blood.
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The Mist / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Mist / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: At one point near the end, the survivors encounter a colossal, tentacled beast easily as tall as a skyscraper. Their only saving grace is that it doesn't even notice them as it walks past, but it really drives home the hopelessness of the situation.
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The Mist / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Mist / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: In the film's climax, as David's group tries to escape from the store and the now-deranged cultists, Ollie takes out Mrs. Carmody, their leader, in this manner after also shooting her in the stomach.
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The Mist / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Mist / int_c39846a3	comment	Neighbour Brent Norton disregards David's and his own common sense to prove himself by walking straight outside into the creepy fog. The result shouldn't be surprising. And before he did that, when he was given a fair warning, he angrily dismissed everything David and every other person said to him, seeing it as an attempt to pull a prank on him and bringing up his hurt ego over an old lawsuit - and he remains unconvinced even when faced with evidence. This is further played-up in the film, where his Pride is near lethal before the mist even shows up.
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The Mist / int_c39a5ef0	type	Willing Suspension of Disbelief
The Mist / int_c39a5ef0	comment	Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The premise of Mrs. Carmody's sway over the townsfolk works for as long as readers and viewers ignore the fact she's a local and as such, everyone and their dog knows already she's a Cloudcuckoolander and a religious nutjob. This means nobody would ever take her seriously, a well-studied phenomena when preachers are completely ineffective toward people that know them personally prior to their proselytizing work. She could gain genuine sway if it was just random people crammed together in the shop with her and nobody knowing her, but they are more than familiar - and sick - of her Holier Than Thou attitude before the events of the story.
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The Mist / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
The Mist / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: The last ten minutes or so. Incidentally, the track used is "The Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance, who also provided most of the One-Woman Wail in the film that popularized it, Gladiator.
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The Mist / int_c6078997	type	New England Puritan
The Mist / int_c6078997	comment	New England Puritan: Mrs. Carmody is primarily known around town for her rabid faith. However, she ends up getting a following after a mysterious mist envelops the town, trapping the survivors in a supermarket.
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The Mist / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Mist / int_c66cb5a9	comment	The survivors decide to take Mrs. Carmody's advice and use Human Sacrifice as a way to appease God and the creatures in the mist. That kind of stuff will only draw more monsters to the immediate area around the store. Predators swarm at the smell of blood or the chance for an easy meal, so sacrificing people was actually the stupidest thing they could've done. The mist creatures seem to hunt by sense of smell or hearing because of low visibility, so attracting them to the store with an easy, injured meal would've also alerted them to the people hiding inside of it.
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The Mist / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Mist / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: All the paintings in David's studio at the beginning are real promotional art created by Drew Struzan, who also did the poster for this movie. Among them are the CD cover of Pan's Labyrinth and the poster for John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). It shouldn't come as a surprise that Carpenter directed a similar movie, titled The Fog. The siren that goes off as the fog comes rolling in sounds similar to one that went off every time creepy stuff was about to go down in another story about a town shrouded in mist and filled with monsters. It's likely (although not confirmed) that the original novella influenced the game. note Such town whistles are still common in rural areas, used not only in emergencies, but to sound nightly curfew. In the scene where David buys a comic for Billy, Darabont had originally suggested it be The Punisher comic, as an Actor Allusion for Thomas Jane. However, Jane had had a falling out with the producers of The Punisher (2004), and instead suggested it be a Hellboy comic, as a Shout-Out to his friend Ron Perlman.
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The Mist / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Mist / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The woman with the kids at home, and the biker.
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The Mist / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Did the flying scorpion not sting Mrs. Carmody simply because it was an animal that acted unpredictably (as animals do)? Did it not sting her because she remained calm and didn't panic it? Did Mrs. Carmody's prayer really have something to do with it? And at the end, she says that by sacrificing Billy and Amanda the monsters will be dissuaded, and Billy and Amanda are among the last characters to die before the mist is cleaned up.
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The Mist / int_cbf05a02	comment	Vagina Dentata: The tentacle monster's mouth.
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The Mist / int_cccb4fd1	comment	Death by Pragmatism: The film goes way past the original story with this. The pragmatic characters who try to help themselves are wrong all the time and mostly end up dead. A woman goes out into the mist at the beginning to save her kids and somehow ends up surviving with them, appearing safe and sound on a truck in the final scene.
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The Mist / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Due to the thick mist, several deaths are not actually witnessed, but based on what the people inside the store can tell, it's not pretty out there. Several of the creatures encountered in either version of the story are partially obscured by the mist and never revealed in full, like the tentacle creature which kills Norm and the crustacean monster which kills Ollie, and it's heavily implied that there's a whole ecology of many other monstrous species in the mist that we never see at all.
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The Mist / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Norton keeps believing that David and the others are trying to prank him by insisting the mist is full of monsters despite various evidence pointing otherwise. David even dubs him and his supporters "Flat-Earthers."
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The Mist / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: David tries to tell the others that there is something outside in the mist, and begs them not to go out to try and unblock the exhaust pipe of the generator. Jim, Norm, and Myron initially dismiss him as just scared, but fear and stress turns it into a shouting match, and David can do nothing else as Norm decides to go out anyway. This results in a tentacled monster killing him, and only then do the others believe him. Later, they try to convince the other survivors in the store, and are once again met with disbelief. Bud Brown eventually comes around when he sees physical proof, but Norton holds fast that David and the others are just trying to pull his leg. Norton meets the same consequences as Norm when he and his group leave the store and are, presumably, killed by unseen monsters in the mist.
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The Mist / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The DVD includes an extra copy of the movie in black and white.
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The Mist / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Mrs. Carmody believes that not only is God angrily punishing them all with the mist, but that she's the only one who can be His "vessel" and lead the others to salvation. Note she tells the others that going to the pharmacy will draw "death" to the other survivors, but she doesn't have a similar problem with throwing out Private Jessup as a sacrifice right outside the door.
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The Mist / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Mist / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Mrs. Reppler (first name Hilda in the book, Irene in the movie) may be a tiny old woman, but she proves herself to be one of the most formidable survivors of the group. In the book she uses simple Raid to take down the bugs and spiders that attack them, but in the movie, she uses a makeshift blowtorch to take down a Grey Widower. In the film she also gets Amanda's book moment of throwing a can of food at Mrs. Carmody, telling her, "Shut up, you miserable buzzard!"
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The Mist / int_d42fb539	type	Our Monsters Are Weird
The Mist / int_d42fb539	comment	Our Monsters Are Weird: The Giant Spiders spin horribly corrosive webs and lay eggs inside corpses (and at least one still-living person), and those are the most typical creatures about. Others include the four-winged pterosaur-bats, a largely-unseen creature whose cephalopod tentacles have mouths instead of suckers, and the... err.. six-legged behemoth covered in prehensile tendrils. Another creature, seen mostly in silhouette only, vaguely resembles a praying mantis the size of a small apartment block.
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The Mist / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Mist / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Jim mockingly questions David's masculinity and bravery when he he advises against risking the teenage bagboy's life on a fool's errand, but whenever Jim himself is in danger he consistently puts his own self-preservation first. Given when the movie came out, this is often read as a commentary on people who supported the invasion of Iraq. Once again, Mrs. Carmody. She makes a big deal out of what a pious Christian she is, but once she starts to gain influence among the survivors, all her strategies basically boil down to cowardice, scapegoating, and self-preservation under a religious veneer. This is most overt in her whole thing about "expiation" - sacrificing others to protect yourself is, to put it mildly, the opposite of what the Bible says you should do, and her specific demand to sacrifice a child brings to mind Moloch. This is tacitly acknowledged in a Mythology Gag when, while praying, she uses the phrase "My life for you", a line associated with followers of Randall Flagg, a Devil figure in King's other works.
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The Mist / int_d60d12e4	type	Harbinger of Impending Doom
The Mist / int_d60d12e4	comment	Harbinger of Impending Doom: While everyone in the store is curiously trying to figure out why firetrucks are going down the road and why the town siren is wailing, Dan Miller runs in, bloodied and frenzied.
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The Mist / int_d705a976	type	The Soulsaver
The Mist / int_d705a976	comment	The Soulsaver: Let's just say that Mrs. Carmody is not the kind of person who knocks at your door asking for a few minutes of your time to talk about Jesus. Well, all right, she does offer you a chance to repent and join her. If you refuse, however, she has... a very extreme opinion about what to do with heathens when The Lord Almighty is pissed off.
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The Mist / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Mist / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Brent Norton is white in the book but played by the African-American Andre Braugher in the film.
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The Mist / int_d93cdd62	comment	Ominously Cut Tether: A man who ventures out into the mist trails a line, which gets yanked upwards by something, and eventually the group in the store manage to reel the cord back covered in blood. Ultimately subverted in the movie when the cord isn't cut: it's still tied around his waist. But his waist isn't connected to the rest of him.
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The Mist / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Just as the mist rolls into town, a man decides to try and flee to his car next to the pharmacy, ignoring Dan's warnings. He fumbles with the keys just as the fog engulfs him. A few seconds later, the people in the store hear him screaming in anguish, the sound cutting off with a gurgle.
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The Mist / int_db68ca14	type	Died in Ignorance
The Mist / int_db68ca14	comment	Died in Ignorance: Used for one of the harshest Downer Endings in recent memory. After escaping the supermarket where they've been hiding and running out of gas, the main characters decide to kill themselves rather than be eaten by monsters. David shoots the remaining survivors—including his eight-year-old son—and leaves his car to be taken...and is immediately met by a U.S. military convoy that's clearing the titular mist with flamethrowers. Turns out that the Army is winning against the otherworldly creatures and already working to restore peace—and David learns this literally seconds after he's killed everyone else in his car.
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The Mist / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Mrs. Reppler's first name is Hilda in the novella but Irene in the movie.
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The Mist / int_deecec48	comment	Brass Balls: Said of the biker who volunteers to leave the supermarket and brave unknown peril to attempt to retrieve a shotgun from a pickup in the parking lot.
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The Mist / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Call her what you will, but the woman in the beginning who leaves the store alone proves she is one. Could you leave your young children alone without trying to get back to them? Oh, and she survives and rescues her kids, appearing with them among the evacuees at the very end. And though the movie doesn't go into it, it's possible that she survived due to leaving early when there may have been fewer creatures about.
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The Mist / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Mist / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Before the events of the film Mrs. Carmody was just another civilian who was an antiques store owner and the town's local Cloudcuckoolander for being Holier Than Thou, but once these monsters rampage through the streets, she becomes the human Big Bad with her cult made up of other survivors.
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The Mist / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: A lot of the movie feels like a mashup of two specific older horror movies. The fact that Darabont originally wanted to release this one in black and white (as both of these movies are) further links them. The Crawling Eye. Hideous tentacled invaders from another world hide in an ominous Fog of Doom that comes rolling down a mountain, while paranoia sets in among the humans in their path, turning them against each other. Both movies also feature a woman who claims to be some kind of medium, though they are very different characters beyond that. Stephen King is on record as a fan of this movie. Night of the Living Dead (1968). As a potentially apocalyptic threat rages outside, a group of survivors hole up in a secluded location, but existing rifts in society become exacerbated as they begin to turn on each other, culminating in a bleak Cruel Twist Ending.
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The Mist / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Stella Hatlen in the radio drama. In addition to being a Gender Flip version of Mike Hatlen, she shares some of Jim Grondin's traits, in particular the revelation that she used to be a student of Mrs. Reppler's along with her sister Pauline (Jim himself is still in the story; he isn't Adapted Out, but rather just is never specifically identified by name).
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The Mist / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Mist / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: In the "Notes" section of Skeleton Crew, King writes that the storm on Long Lake in Bridgton and the subsequent day-after trip to the grocery store for supplies went pretty much as he wrote it in the story. While he was in the store, though, he got a humorous vision of a prehistoric bird flying around and crashing into things—which image became the impetus for "The Mist."
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The Mist / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Mrs. Carmody, a Holier Than Thou nutcase who believes everything that is happening is God's punishment, and time and again scorns others for not believing in her case that a blood sacrifice must be made. The more followers that she gets, the more evident it is (especially in the film) that she's taking great smugness is being the leader of the desperate people she took advantage of. She's ultimately the Big Bad of the film, as while the monsters may be in the mist outside, Mrs. Carmody's cult inside the supermarket grows more and more bloodthirsty—to the point of killing an innocent soldier in the film and attempting to kill both Billy and Amanda in the climax. One couldn't be blamed for rejoicing when Ollie kills her. Downplayed with Brent Norton. Primarily it is because of how stubborn and how much of a Straw Vulcan he is. Despite the fact there are monsters in the mist, he firmly keeps saying this is all because David wants to "get back at him" for some lawsuit that occurred before the events of the book. However, he does promise everyone who stays that he's going to send help back for them, so he comes across mostly as stubborn, foolish, and a bit of a jerkass rather than actively malicious or cowardly. Jim Grondin, whose Establishing Character Moment has him pointlessly endangering Norm the bagboy, accusing David of cowardice when he advises against it, and then immediately freezing up when Norm needs help (while David and Ollie spring into action). Jim comes across as a selfish Dirty Coward throughout the movie, and eventually becomes one of Mrs. Carmody's most fervent supporters.
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The Mist / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
The Mist / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: Humanity needs a good squeeze of authority, if this movie is anything to go by. Once the people in the store are deprived of technology and social structure, they'll start listening to anyone with a solution to their problems. Carmody's cult starts sacrificing people because they believe it's the only thing keeping the monsters at bay and because they don't want to be sacrificed next. It's just as likely that Humanity Is Insane, though; as Ollie cynically puts it:
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The Mist / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The book "ends" with David and the others taking refuge in a Howard Johnson's, uncertain of what they'll do next. David lampshades in his narration that their story isn't really "ending," and he's just going to leave his testament of what happened on the counter in case anyone finds it.
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The Mist / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Several characters in the store, mainly Jim and Brent. But the ultimate one has to be Mrs. Carmody, a horrid religious fanatic who slowly goes from a mere annoyance to pure evil.
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The Mist / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	In Which a Trope Is Described: Each chapter of the novella is headed with a synopsis of that chapter.
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The Mist / int_f03efcdb	comment	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: The MP found All Webbed Up in the pharmacy. And, even more horrifying, David's wife, whose death we do not see... but her webbed-up corpse, split open.
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The Mist / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Mist / int_f3626b09	comment	After accidentally setting himself on fire whilst attempting to drive the ptero-buzzards out of the market, Joe Eagleton lingers for at least a day in unbearable agony before finally succumbing to his burns. Made even worse because the other characters denied his request for a Mercy Kill in order to mount a risky expedition to the adjacent pharmacy for painkillers and antibiotics, which wound up getting Joe's brother killed. On top of that, although they returned with the right medicine, it turned out to be too late to save him anyway.
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The Mist / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Mist / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Mrs. Carmody takes her religious fundamentalism to psychotic extremes. She's outright trying for Dark Messiah — she'll save as many souls of the deserving as she can, but forget actual lives... or how she goes about deciding on the "deserving": throw them to the monsters and sacrifice children. David likens her to Jim Jones at one point.
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The Mist / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: The creatures that arrive with the mist are undeniably dangerous and hyper-aggressive, but they don't act out of evil or hatred for mankind but out of simple animal instinct. Which of course highlights the depths humans are willing to stoop to.
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The Mist / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: David makes one at the very end after he finds out the mercy kill he gave his son and surviving friends has been for nothing.
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The Mist / int_fed1a09d	comment	"Back to Camera" Pose: The film poster shows David holding his son and looking out at the alien fog outside the windows with his back turned to the viewer. He's also silhouetted by the light from the fog.
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The Mist / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: A minor one, but the cult in the movie evidently let Bud back inside the store after he gets separated from the others in the mist, despite the fact that his buddies killed their leader and despite their leader marking him for death beforehand. This suggests that, without the poisonous influence of Mrs. Carmody, the cultists quickly reverted back to being ordinary, scared, more-or-less decent people. In the book, Bud—who has been quite the hard-ass through the story, insisting that no one eat or drink anything from the store they didn't buy—refuses to accompany David's group in escaping the store but he gives Ollie and David good wishes.
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The Mist / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: Out there in the mist? No prize for guessing.
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