The Mist

the radio adaptation was available on cassete as "The Mist in 3-D Sound" and it was totally freaky.

trailer!

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809834165/video/3906309/

shows too much:-/ but it does look almost exactly how i pictured everything from the novella

Gah! Okay I'm gonna say most of all: I want the albino pterodactyls to be really awesome. After pondering their wonder and terror, I will watch the trailer.

it's kind of a sucky trailer to be honest. makes it look like a two-part miniseries on abc or something:-/

Oh man crazy apocalypse lady looks like Bruce McCulloch in drag.

ltebloomer otm

There's nothing like a trailer that ends with a child whispering in terror.

'two-part miniseries on ABC" is basically how I envision every Stephen King story now. Starring the guy from Wings, too.

was that Chloe Sevigny slapping Jackson Pollock's wife?

dude i love this novella!!!

so scary!!

i always visualized it as a rad movie too.

Man this doesn't look good. The monsters look fake, too.

I don't remember the battle of good vs. evil 'kill the boy' stuff in the novella/CD? Didn't it end with them just staring out into the mist waiting to die?

wow the trailer looks simultaneously exactly how i imagined the movie's setting and like a SCTV parody.

was that Chloe Sevigny slapping Jackson Pollock's wife?

This sounds like an anagram...

Like "I saw Oprah W. ram Marx aside," one my friend made.

A Diarrhea Sap Was Mix Worm?

somehow it all makes sense

I saw this trailer earlier tonight. I have that radio drama on mp3.

wow the trailer looks simultaneously exactly how i imagined the movie's setting and like a SCTV parody.

-- s1ocki, Friday, August 31, 2007 1:07 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

otm

parody

hmm, unfortunately I find it impossible to take a story called The Mist srsly as IN MY BRANE it just sounds like a comedy piistake of James Herbert's The Fog coz Mist < Fog like "the beast from the 3 inch puddle" or summat.

too bad about your "BRANE"

stephen king needs to stay away from religious bullshit and just bring on the mist monsters. but i dunno, maybe it will be as amazing as dreamcatcher.

This one creeps me out almost as much as The Raft does, so I am totally looking forward to it, and it better not suck.

BAHAHAHA, amazing as Dreamcatcher? I'm so confused as to how you mean this.

The creature is a terrifying eel-like creature (nicknamed the "Shit Weasel") with a long set of ferocious jaws, and by the time Jonesy returns, he is too late to save his friend, and Beaver is killed when the Weasel flies into his face and devours it off screen. Jonesy escapes the bathroom and tries to keep the Weasel trapped inside, but accidentally pulls out the doorknob and is approached out of nowhere by a gargantuan gray alien creature, who explodes into a cloud of red dust, which Jonesy inhales. As a result, the alien, known as Mr. Gray, takes over Jonesy's body. Mr. Gray has a meticulous British accent, which distinguishes him from Jonesy's American accent, as both inhabit the same body and argue in back-to-back perspectives.

BAHAHAHA, amazing as Dreamcatcher? I'm so confused as to how you mean this.

Okay, I'm not the only one.

We were playing Scattegories and Dreamcatcher was the only horror movie category word I could think of beginning with D. I argued that that's where you'll find it in the video store, in the horror section, but I still got voted down.

dreamcatcher is kind of fun in a batshit/wtf?! kind of way. worst ending i've ever seen in a theatrical film by far.

I thought the whole mind-library thing was kind of cool. I still think about that sometimes.

Though has anyone noticed yet

The Fog trailer: "There is something IN the fog!"
The Mist trailer: "There is SOMETHING in the mist!"

teh jonesy stuff in dreamcatcher is my favourite

"project arrowhead"

Blindsided by sudden rush of excitement: alt-critics Josh Rothkopf and Jim Ridley (both trustworthy in my opinion) are both raving about this one! The former said it's almost sure to be in his year end top 10.

i got passes to see a preview screening next monday. psyched!

me too

i really want to watch dreamcatcher again

please report back! i'm pleasantly optomistic about this.

dreamcatcher is hilarious. jonesy!!!!!

i kinda loved how he tried to have it both ways with the ending... so silly

plus this movie was scary as shit

The bit with that Dead Can Dance song playing, and they're driving through the mist, and that huge thing walks over the road in front of them... it was actually quite desolately beautiful.

I do think that final ending was a cheap trick though--even if everything was now fine/sorted by the military or whoever, there's no way it would have happened that FAST.

doesn't the story end with them driving into uncertainty, no military showing up, no idea of the scope, etc.? that would have been better.

My husband mentioned this when he was squirming in his seat at the end of the movie.

THE ARROWHEAD PROJECT

Some movies get better when they sink in. And there are others, like this one, that just shrivel away to shit.

I was pleasantly surprised when I rented this on DVD. Maybe my expectations were just really low (they were) but I was pretty satisfied by this. The end is really doomed!

I liked the superbleak ending. I liked the whole thing, really.

It's a good companion piece to The Ruins. It's not about whether they'll die. It's about watching their impending DOOMs.

Watched it again tonight and it holds up remarkably well. One of the better non-Lovecraft Lovecraft movies.

Bernie Wrightson's monsters are authentically Lovecraftian. The characters are all King, for better or worse.

Ha, didn't know Wrightson was behind the monsters. Makes sense.

I'd love to see a full-length Wrightson animation - his choice of project.

i confused this movie with the Fog - which i would up sitting through last week. it was not very good.

fucking mist wtf

really loved this film! loved the pacing, the way it made you feel as if you were going stir-crazy in the supermarket with them, the disorientating mist scenes, the pharmacy scene was terrifying, the old lady was bad-ass, loved how marcia gay holden totally overacted her character BUT it worked because every so often she'd come out with a spot-on zing/observation - and she NEVER stopped talking, it was a pretty convincing portrayal of how people fall under the spell of something that just wears down at you. the kind of film that sticks with you for various reasons and not just the ending.

from what i remember i enjoyed this. kind of a perfect "zombie" film (except no zombies). i remember watching this about the same time as Land Of The Dead, which was a pretty good film too.

So...not a zombie film

The premise behind the majority of zombie films isn't so much about the zombies - they generally represent an ulterior threat from outside. A vast majority of zombie movies are about how people react and interact with each other when presented with this threat; the message being that human beings are just as dangerous in close quarters and under stress as the living dead. Replace the mist and monsters with zombies and this is a classic example of the genre.

Isn't that horror films rather than zombie films specifically?

Political thriller

The ick of it

The trouble with zombies is you just can't communicate with them.

clear and present danger (stated danger: not a zombie)

the billion dollar brain (uneaten at end of movie)

JFKZ

twelve angry former-men-now-zombies

nope, not a movie either.

Isn't that horror films rather than zombie films specifically?

― lex pretend, Monday, December 9, 2013 1:40 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really. In Poltergeist the danger is very much the poltergeist IIRC - the conflict between humans isn't hugely pronounced. Everyone works against the forces in the house to rid it of ghosts.

Zombie movies are their own specific genre because zombies are only a surface-level threat. Many many zombie movies involve people eventually barricading themselves into a building and fighting among themselves while the stupid zombies just crowd around outside. The zombies are just a device to stop people being able to escape from each other. Maybe this is why Charlie Brooker decided to set (the rather crap TV series) Dead Meat on the set of Big Brother?

I'd argue that in order to qualify as a zombie movie, you don't really need actual zombies - it just has to fit the tropes: disaster tactics, in-fighting, agoraphobia, micro-politics, apocalypse and emergency etc... Arguably Time of the Wolf or Day of the Triffids could count as zombie fiction. Like all sci-fi it plays on real fears and I think in this case zombies play on a fear of nuclear fallout - of not being able to go outside for fear of infection; seeing loved ones come down with an irreversible sickness; being forced to interact with strangers you'd otherwise have nothing to do with, people you'd generally avoid like the plague if you could.

You would argue that? Srsly now?

He would you know.

Damned if he wouldnt, by gad

my snarkasm detector's going into overdrive here.

Torn btwn two threads- str8 up poll 'do u need zombies for a zombie movie' with one answer option 'y' obv and a more interesting thread where posters are invited to name a movie and we must as a collective justify it as an example of a totally unrelated genre

No hate in the game dl i admire yr bouncing enthusiasm for this type of nonsense, indeed today on ilx would be a write-off thus far without this hypothesis

i get where you're coming from, dl, and agree to an extent - but only to an extent. romero's classic three zombie films fit the pattern you've described, as do many others that have followed in their wake. there are plenty of zombie movies, however, that don't work that way, that focus primarily on the protagonists' struggle against an external threat (often less serious: dead alive, versus, dance of the dead). while group dynamics under stress is an interesting way to frame zombie films, it's probably a mistake to treat animated corpses and death by gnawing as incidental to the genre.

even the original dawn of the dead, the ur-text from which the contemporary genre descends, is at least as concerned with straight up, brain-splattering zombie combat as it is with man's inhumanity to man.

I was thinking recently that the "humans struggling against one another in the midst of an outside threat" thing is a lot of what I like about Romero's Dead films, but it isn't a trope that's endemic to all zombie movies, and it's a trope that's been used in a lot of other kinds of (horror) films. Calling all films of that type "zombie-less zombie films" is akin to calling any movie with a fictional president a "Morgan Freeman-less Morgan Freeman film".

xpost cool, i admit i don't think i've seen many of the ones you mention there contendo, while a lot of the zombie films i have seen (not just the Romeros, but 28 Days Later for an obvious example) do play on this. It's become a big part of what the zombie genre is and in some cases you could take the zombies and the varying levels of splatter and gore right out of the equation and and ultimately it would be the same movie. When I went to see Time of the Wolf, years ago, I remember it being billed as a zombie movie and while I left a bit confounded by that description, I don't think that description was anatomically incorrect.

I thought the revive was about the possibly impending Mist TV show.

...in some cases you could take the zombies and the varying levels of splatter and gore right out of the equation and and ultimately it would be the same movie. When I went to see Time of the Wolf, years ago, I remember it being billed as a zombie movie and while I left a bit confounded by that description, I don't think that description was anatomically incorrect.

time of the wolf is a "zombie movie" in a snarky, thinkaboutit, haneke sense. but if you took the zombies and splatter out of films like dawn of the dead and 28 days later, you'd have to replace them with some sort of civilization-collapsing threat, otherwise they wouldn't make much sense. this is just to say that zombie movies are a subgenre of disaster films as much as of horror. another way to think about it is to say that zombie films are about riots, humanity reduced to a mindless, marauding mass that tears apart the social structures we (nonrioters) rely on to keep each other's worst impulses in check. given the period, zombies = rioters helps make sense of romero's dawn of the dead, especially its opening act and attention to race. could broaden it further to say that zombie movies are about the fear of them, other people, people we don't know and can't trust, the masses, those who "aren't like us".

Day of the Triffids could count as zombie fiction

28 days later is basically day of the triffids with zombies instead of plants. but then the plants are pretty zombie like - stupid, slow, theoretically easy to avoid and eliminate but surprisingly effective in numbers.

oh yeah except everyone's blind, i forgot that bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_uqiSQOY

looks sexy

That show is terrible. I hope the mist eats them all.

GO MIST GO

I didn't realize it had started. It seems kinda like a fundamentally-flawed premise for a series. Unless it all unfolds in real time over whatever period of time the characters are trapped in their present location. Otherwise you just have two people stuck in a house together until they decide they need to leave and then whoops.

I've seen the movie but I don't remember reading the original story/book - the show seems like it has more in common with a particularly dark episode of Fantasy Island than the movie.

Please tell me the Mist is wearing a white suit and granting wishes.

Not quite that, yet, but give it a season.