The Mist (2007)

Well, I've heard from someone who's seen some of the artwork for At the Mountains of Madness that they're going to be taking a rather unconventional (for Lovecraftian film... or art, for that matter) approach. I do know that Del Toro really cares about this film, and those he's genuinely invested in tend to be well worth watching. But I've also seen that he intends to attempt to stay true to the spirit while making it more cinematically effective. So we'll have to wait and see...

As for The Mist... I've got admit that I'm somewhat curious about this one, and it's got better prospects than 99% of the stuff done from King's work....
 
Rumour has it that after doing "The Mist" and "Farenheit 451" Darabont will return to Stephen King territory with an adaption of "The Long Walk".

The book is about a walk where the winner gets anything they want for life but the loser is punished by death. If you walk too slow on the walk you get a warning… four warnings and you are shot.
 
[Brief interlude]

Ahem...while on the subject of film adaptations of King books...For UK viewers, there are two films being show consecutively on Monday night on Channel five. Secret Window at 9pm and then Misery straight after. Just thought I'd mention it for anyone interested! :)

[And now back to the main feature...]
 
Thanks for that, Hoopy - both good films.

The Long Walk sounds interesting - hadn't come across that one before.
 
Now I'm more excited about The Mist than ever after reading that very promising article. Thanks for sharing, JD.
 
You're welcome; though I'll admit that I'm still more than a bit cautious, considering it was by no means the final cut of the film... but it does sound more hopeful, anyway....
 
Just had this passed along to me by Irishwriter (thankee!).

Stephen King's The Mist trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies

The beginning looks promising, but I hope there isn't gratuitous showing of all the beastly creatures in the Mist...for me it's the age-old idea of what you can't see if a lot more terrifying and eerie than what you can see, and too much CGI annoys me. But I shall hold off other comments until I see the film. :D

Additional comment...is that a Cthulhu tentacle I spy at the end of the trailer? That Great One sure gets around :D
 
The initial interviews etc all suggested that it would be more about what you can't see than what you can, so I'm hoping that's the case too.
 
I just saw a preview of "The Mist" on TV for the first time. I never even knew Stephen King made a book on this topic (it's just one I somehow haven't read), so I'm pretty excited. Just the preview made it look pretty good. And yes, I think they'll be sticking with scarying you with what you cannot see.
 
I have a The Mist thread going on in the Stephen King forum of this site for further reference. I saw the adaption some weeks ago, and I must warn against having hopes too high for the film. The effects are a little on the cheesy side (but, perhaps, that is more due to the creature designs), and the incredibly different ending from the original story is terrible.

There is a good chunk of the film that keeps close to the short story, and it retains several true strokes of Stephen King.
 
I saw The Mist recently and thought, for the most part, it fell exactly on my expectations. I never expected it to be a blockbuster, but I did not think it would be bad. In my opinion, the creatures were not too bad (in terms of realism). The only thing I did not like was the ending they chose to go with (the book's ending would have been better, sadly).
 
The Mist looks like a pretty good scare, but I really want to watch it because I adore Thomas Jane (hush up) and Frank Darabont, who while he doesn't really do excellent at perfect adaptations, he does very well at bringing through the spirit of the story with a new viewpoint (Young Indiana Jones, Frankenstein, The Blob). Probably one of the better choices. Also, you know, I really don't like perfect adaptations. I've already read the damn story, I want to see something new and exciting about the story, not the tale puked back up onto a screen, but like a pretty little caterpillar turning into a new butterfly.

Um, yeah so thats my take on it.

Yeah, I know...I need to chill.

PS: Yes, I still watch Young Indiana Jones when it comes on the tele.

PPS: This is Darabont, what effects of his are not on the cheesy side? Seriously, The Fly 2 and Nightmare on Elm St 3---all he makes are cheesy visual effects. Which I adore because they make me laugh.
 
i liked this film a lot. the symbolism was quite easy to read but no less enjoyable for all that. i liked how characters played out the archetypes of superstition, voice of reason etc. there were a couple of scenes that really scared me, even if i already knew how the story would generally go. i could argue that people's actions were sometimes even scarier than the monsters in the mist, which i suppose was the whole point.
my only complaint is that the ending left me with a bitter aftertaste. perhaps it would have been better to leave it as in the original SK story but somehow i don't think it would translate very well on screen. all in all, i felt kind of cheated of the post-apocalyptic grandeur that King's story conveyed.
 
I couldn't see a thread for this, so here goes...

Finally got to see this. I have loved the original novella since first reading it as a kid (it was published in Stephen King's story collection The Skeleton Crew). It was a huge early inspiration for me.

The story is of a mist that descends upon a small town in Maine which holds unseen horrors. A group of people are stranded in the local supermarket and as horrors are revealed and time goes on the group starts to segregate and deep rooted frictions arise.

This film adaption delivered on EVERY level. It is directed by Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile) stuck to the story in all the right places and delivered a brilliantly shocking ending that was at once completely different from the original story, but at the same time cleverly in keeping with it. Acting from EVERYONE was absolutely first class. In fact the only aspect that wasn't 100% perfect was the special effects, but they were still more than adequate (it was made on a pretty low budget).

There's also some brilliant touches that movie or Stephen King fans will notice (the main character is a movie poster artist and some of his posters can be seen at the start of the film. One is of the John Carpenter classic The Thing and another is for The Dark Tower - a picture of the gunslinger and the rose. Brilliant!).

I can't say enough how good this film is and that is quite an achievement given how good the novella is.
 
I loved this movie, it was so dark and the ending was so unbelievable. I've never read the story though so I can't compare them.
 
Stephen King’s The Mist

I don’t normally dare recommend films as everyone’s taste is so diverse. I’ve always watched the Hollywood translations of King’s work onto the big screen with a ‘take it or leave it’ attitude. They’re normally okay, but I probably wouldn’t watch a ‘Stephen King’ film again since Pet Sematery or The Langoliers.

However, The Mist completely blew me away. It was one of the creepiest films I’ve seen in a while, plus the acting was top notch (a rare surprise in a horror flick).

I’ve just checked it out on IMDB.com and found that opinion is split there (largely to do with the ending – which I loved). I was just wondering what other people thought of it?
 
Re: Stephen King’s The Mist

I enjoyed this, I'm a big fan of the story (which being at the front of Skeleton Crew means I always end up reading it first) and thought the film might be good.

I loved bits of it, and was very pleased with the decent into mob behaviour, I thought the ending was just about as harsh as they could have made it. Brilliant!

Loved it and recommend it to anyone with eyes (regardless of how well they work)
 
Re: Stephen King’s The Mist

Read "The Mist" in DARK FORCES and loved it. Probably the best King story I've read yet. Makes my top five horror reads to get in the mood for Halloween. :)

Haven't seen the movie though I want to. (Maybe next Halloween...)
 
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