The mists finale just barely redeems its slow, mindnumbing first season. Looper the ending of the mist finally gets explained. Trapped in a supermarket when a mysterious mist rolls in, it isnt long until bloodthirsty beasts are. The mists brutal, controversial ending io9 gizmodo. The life story of the late anthropologist dian fossey posed considerable challenges to the filmmakers tackling it, and they have been met in admirable fashion in gorillas in the mist from a. Legendary horror author stephen king has had two of his stories adapted into feature films this year, the first being 1408 back in june and now. A slightly edited version was included in kings collection skeleton crew 1985. The ending of the mist is wonderful, horrific, twisted and shocking. Over the course of the film, we learn a few things. Heres why its still being discussed over a decade later.
So in the book, our dad and his kid are in the car driving and running away from the horrors in the supermarket. One thing that they have in common is an astonishing ending. The mist originally has a happy ending in stephen kings book. The story is paced well, you really come to care about the protagonist. Darabont had an artistic vision that would play on the empathy of an audience, and he did it masterfully. Boards community central the vestibule spent the day watching the mist 2007. The mist is not the shawshank redemption in one crucial way. The mists movie ending is still one of the most shocking ever. With the premiere of the mist just around the corner, fans likely dont have time to read kings story before the premiere episode, even though its not as unwielded as some of his other works. Despite both of these things, the finale doesnt quite make up for how the entire season has gone. We need to talk about the ending of the movie the mist.
Why the mists ending remains one of the best of all time. The plot revolves around members of the small town of bridgton, maine who, after a severe. As they realize the mist has covered everything and they dont know where to go, they hear something on the radio and t. In what was a bleak story, the original novella boasted an open, ambiguous and quiet ending akin to hitchcocks the birds a brief glimpse of hope in. Film is a column comparing books to the film adaptations they spawn, often discussing them on a plotpointbyplotpoint basis. The mists finale just barely redeems its slow, mindnumbing first. Attack on titan and the mist ending attack on titan wiki. Although the mists finale just barely redeems its first season, the story ends on an exciting note. Here is how the short story ends as per wikipedia david, billy, amanda, and elderly, yet tough, school teacher hilda reppler reach the car and leave bridgton, driving south for hours through a mistshrouded, monsterfilled new england. Mist over pendle by robert neill the lancashire witch trials of 1612 were the basis for this story. How stephen king feels about the mists wild movie ending.
The story got even more disturbing when filmmaker frank darabont wrote a. The book starts off at the end of a big storm in bridgton, maine. The mist ends its first season with incest, death, and. Why the twist ending to the mist movie is still bad. However, if theres ever a tv series that wants no, needs. The ending to frank darabonts the mist though is a dark, gutpunch of an ending, that shows a man on the wrong side of fate, with one less bullet than he needed. The mist boss says his admiration of both the king story and the darabont film extends to the different endings. I hated the ending to the movie and it was a good scary movie, but if anyone has read the book version, i would like to know how the book ended. The story got even more disturbing when filmmaker frank darabont wrote a new ending for his 2007 movie adaptation. The whole plot mostly takes place inside the supermarket at least the largest horror one. Look up mist or mist in wiktionary, the free dictionary. The films final twist devastated audiences, and it.
The statute of limitations has long expired on spoilers for the mist, but king himself, a vocal fan of darabonts revised ending, described it as the most shocking ending ever, and said. If you want to lose yourself in a good horror story for a few hours you cant go. As the mist comes and kills anything in its path, 4 adults decide to commit suicide, but since the gun is empty for the man that killed the other adults, he. While david and company dont escape the mist, they do manage to travel a considerable ways, and plan to continue to do so until theyre.
Im a big fan of lovecraft and this, along with the raft, are his most lovecraftian tales imho. Frank darabonts movie the mist is based on a stephen king short story the mist. The mist trailer arrives how is it different from the. The article seems to argue for ending the movie differently because thats the way movies are done. It was first published as the first and longest story of the horror anthology dark forces in 1980. Kings ending had the surviving group driving to what they prayed would be a way out of the mist. Now, that isnt necessarily a bad thing, but i doubt that is why most people are watching the show. The mist originally has a happy ending in stephen kings. The mist of the title is purely there as a plot device to drive the human interest story. The mists finale just barely redeems its slow, mind. Gorillas in the mist the story of dian fossey variety.
The mist is a 2007 american science fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella the mist by. The ending of the mist finally gets explained youtube. But king loves the new ending so much that he opined. Stephen kings novella, the mist, is one of the best short stories of all time. The controversial ending of the mist is reexamined, explaining why its stuck with for audiences for all these years. In episode 10, the tenth meal, tensions at the mall finally come to head and. Anyway, i hear the ending in the book is different, can anyone tell me the difference between the two as ive never read the book. Either for better or worse, the series will have an unexpected finale, thats for sure. Ive been waiting a long time for a good audio version of the mist and will patton does a great job reading it. In stephen kings book, however, the story ends on a less. Movies express such a fondness for the mist s ending. If the mist wants a futureand this episode ended on a cliffhanger, so you know their fingers are crossedthe writers need to stop pretending they were ever telling a structured story or that. People escaped the mist and what is lurking in it and now they either have to wait for it to pass or to do something horrible.
The mist tells the story of a dad named david and his son, billy, who get caught inside a supermarket when a mysterious and dangerous mist engulfs his small town in maine. In this show, though, the mist is already playing increasing secondfiddle to the human drama in the same way that the zombies of the walking dead are now. In stephen kings book, however, the story ends on a less depressing note. Frank darabonts adaptation is a great one, that follows the story almost perfectly, including neat little. The mist is a horror novel by the american author stephen king, in which the small town of bridgton, maine is suddenly enveloped in an unnatural mist that conceals otherworldly monsters. The mist plays more of a role in the finale than it has for most of the show, too.
The mist hit theaters wednesday, and its been widely circulated that director frank darabonts ending in the movie differed vastly from stephen. Completely not what i expected, big change for hollywood not to sugar coat something and make it all nice. The mist is still one of the ballsiest movies of the 21st. The story was a more evenhanded approach to how we need hope to keep going and how that hope is the opposite of what those zealots were walking in.
Why youre still not over the ending of the mist 8 years. Football star jay gets hurt throughout the story because everyone thinks he raped young protagonist alex cunningham. When frank was interested in the mist, one of the things that he insisted on was that it would have some kind of an ending, which the story. Whether you subscribe to that theory or not, its easy to see that the mists ending works well given the parameters of its story. Every stephen king movie ranked, from worst to best while most king fans enjoyed the mist, and thought it was a welldone adaptation, there was one major sticking point that divided audiences. Hollywood style movie would have had a happy ending. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title mist. The mist doesnt deserve a second season but this is why. King himself satirized the story s deliberately unsatisfying conclusion within the pages of the mist when draper, the tales narrator, admits that such endings can be considered cheap.
I saw the movie the mist today, and they say the ending was different than the ending in the book. One of the story elements that factors into the films conclusion in an interesting way involves marcia gay harden s. He compares franks film ending, a political commentary for those willing to look deep enough, as something very sinister and dark, which he loved about the movie. As the residents are cleaning up from the storm, they notice a thick mist coming from off the nearby lake, coming from an area used by project arrowhead, which is a mysterious military installation. Yesterday i celebrated the 5th anniversary of the blog with a special, longer flash fiction if you havent read it please do. Surprisingly, this films controversial ending was not how it went down in the novella. The storys ending has been a source of some controversy but i think its perfect.
The mist s ending onscreen is unrelentingly bleak, and hits the viewer like a punch to the gut. Frank darabonts the mist has one of the most unforgettable endings in movie history. To borrow from the story, its an alfred hitchcock ending. While kings book ending isnt exactly happy, its much less heartwrenching, and a bit. In 1980, stephen king published one of his most disturbing stories, a novella called the mist.
Spent the day watching the mist 2007 and the thing 2010. Essentially, the ending is about hope which also happens to. The mist hit theaters wednesday, and its been widely circulated that director frank darabonts ending in the movie differed vastly from stephen kings ending to the novella its based on. Masdar institute of science and technology, an ecologicallyfocused university in masdar city, uae. Did stephen king like frank darabonts ending of the mist.
Hi there, i watched the mist last night and gotta say i was blown away by the ending. Whereas the shawshank redemption was about hope and life, the mist is about hopelessness and death. The movie adaptation of stephen kings the mist has an infamously dark ending. Saying that he shouldnt have made the ending because it. It was first published as the first and longest story of the horror anthology dark. The mists ending is one of the most shocking and harsh in the history of horror films, and is still capable of dividing new viewers. One of the story elements that factors into the films conclusion in an interesting way involves marcia gay harden s human antagonist, the. The problem with the mists controversial ending screen rant.