The third group is an even smaller group of people who refuse to believe the situation they are in. A larger group contain fanatical fundamentalists ruled by a self-proclaimed speaker for God, Marcia Harden. A very small group of people remain sane and logical. The group huddled in the grocery store divide into three groups. The movie becomes less about the creatures in the mist and becomes more about how people treat each other when their own life is threatened.

How the people in the grocery store deal with the creatures, as well as each other, becomes the focus. Locked in a grocery store with creatures coming out of the mist trying to eat you, I would say constitutes as a stressful situation. Stephen King is a master at weaving a great story, but even better at revealing people’s true characters in stressful situations. This is where the story shifts its focus. The audience only catch glimpses of what the mist hides, and that’s enough to scare the survivors half to death. A mist that is hiding something very dangerous is released and the mist cloaks the inhabitants from the view of the few survivors hiding in the grocery store. The Mist is basically about an army experiment gone bad. The director and writer is Frank Darabont, who many fans of The Walking Dead will recognize. The ending is different in the story than in the movie, but who am I to quibble. The Mist movie is adapted from a Stephen King (hero) short story with the same title. Thomas Jane portrayed David Drayton, the main character who is stranded in a grocery store with his young son, separated from his wife who stayed home.Īn eerie mist has shrouded the small Maine town Drayton lives in, and there are monsters on the loose. That preference has a big impact on this comparison, not just because I’m biased, but it’s the Stephen King style. I do not believe blood and gore contributes to a horror movie, but rather detracts from it (I know, I know, everyone has an opinion, feel free to be passive aggressive in the comments). Take normal everyday people and stick them right in the middle of something that they have no experience in dealing with, and see what happens. Instead, they concentrate more on the psychological aspects of the story. The one thing they all have in common is that they do not use blood and gore as their calling card for their horror stories. I cut my teeth on Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, to name a few. I’ve been a horror buff for many moons now.

If you’re tossing up between the movie adaptation or the TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist, we’ve got you covered.

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