Stephen King's The Mist
October 29th 2007 10:49
The Mist is a 2007 horror film based on the 1980 novella The Mist by Stephen King. The film is written and directed by Frank Darabont. It is slated for a November 21, 2007 release.
The plot of the original Novella by Stephen King is as follows: The morning after a violent thunderstorm, a thick unnatural mist rapidly spreads across the small town of Bridgton, Maine, reducing visibility to near-zero and concealing numerous species of bizarre creatures; vaguely resembling, among other things, lobsters, spiders and giant squid, these entities viciously attack any human who ventures out into the open. The source of the fog and its inhabitants is never revealed, but strong allusions are made to an interdimensional rift caused by something known second-hand to the townsfolk as "The Arrowhead Project", which had been long-rumoured to be conducted at a nearby top-secret military facility.
The bulk of the story details the plight of a large group of people who become trapped while shopping in the town supermarket, among them an artist named David Drayton (the story's narrator), Drayton's young son Billy, and their annoying neighbour Brenton Norton. (Also trapped in the market are two soldiers from The Arrowhead Project; their joint suicide lends some credence to the theory of the Project being the source of the disaster.) Along with the horrifying physical threat outside, of which Norton is an early victim, the story also explores the rapid psychological breakdown of the terrified people inside the market. This breakdown allows for the rise to power of a religious zealot named Mrs. Carmody, who eventually convinces a majority fraction of the survivors that these events fulfil the biblical prophecy of the end times, and that a human sacrifice must be made to clear away the Mist: Billy and Amanda are the chosen victims. As the mob surges forward at her command, Mrs. Carmody is shot by Ollie Weeks, an employee of the market and one of the few survivors who has remained relatively sane. Placing faith on the hypothesis that the creatures hunt primarily by smell, Drayton, his son, and two other survivors escape to Drayton's car. This educated guess proves correct when the survivors are ignored once shut within the car. Learning that the Mist has spread ahead of them across all of Maine, they prepare to drive on into an uncertain future as the story ends.
The movie trailer is below:
Cast:
Thomas Jane as David Drayton.
Laurie Holden as Amanda Dumfries.
Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody: An outspoken member of the trapped group who causes its division.
Andre Braugher as Brent Norton: A high-powered attorney who owns a weekend home in the Maine town.
Toby Jones as Ollie Weeks: The supermarket manager.
Amin Joseph
Other Info:
Genre: Horror
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Produced by: Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Alan Ladd, Jr., Danton Rissner
Written by: Frank Darabont
Distributed by: Dimension Films
Release date: USA - November 21st, 2007
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Mist.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the Wikipedia page for The Mist Film.
The bulk of the story details the plight of a large group of people who become trapped while shopping in the town supermarket, among them an artist named David Drayton (the story's narrator), Drayton's young son Billy, and their annoying neighbour Brenton Norton. (Also trapped in the market are two soldiers from The Arrowhead Project; their joint suicide lends some credence to the theory of the Project being the source of the disaster.) Along with the horrifying physical threat outside, of which Norton is an early victim, the story also explores the rapid psychological breakdown of the terrified people inside the market. This breakdown allows for the rise to power of a religious zealot named Mrs. Carmody, who eventually convinces a majority fraction of the survivors that these events fulfil the biblical prophecy of the end times, and that a human sacrifice must be made to clear away the Mist: Billy and Amanda are the chosen victims. As the mob surges forward at her command, Mrs. Carmody is shot by Ollie Weeks, an employee of the market and one of the few survivors who has remained relatively sane. Placing faith on the hypothesis that the creatures hunt primarily by smell, Drayton, his son, and two other survivors escape to Drayton's car. This educated guess proves correct when the survivors are ignored once shut within the car. Learning that the Mist has spread ahead of them across all of Maine, they prepare to drive on into an uncertain future as the story ends.
The movie trailer is below:
Cast:
Thomas Jane as David Drayton.
Laurie Holden as Amanda Dumfries.
Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody: An outspoken member of the trapped group who causes its division.
Andre Braugher as Brent Norton: A high-powered attorney who owns a weekend home in the Maine town.
Toby Jones as Ollie Weeks: The supermarket manager.
Amin Joseph
Other Info:
Genre: Horror
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Produced by: Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Alan Ladd, Jr., Danton Rissner
Written by: Frank Darabont
Distributed by: Dimension Films
Release date: USA - November 21st, 2007
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Mist.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the Wikipedia page for The Mist Film.
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