The movie ending was perfect. Sometimes you just have to go there to make it perfect. Will Farrel has a movie called "Stranger than Fiction" you should watch it if you havnt seen it. You'll get what I'm talking about after watching it.
I have never seen BJ so conflicted!!! "I am leaving. I am not staying in the store." 3 minutes later, "I am staying here! I am not going anywhere" 10 minutes later, "I am going with them. I am going!" 3 minutes later, "I am not going out I am staying!" LOL
Being a father of two who would have done the same thing. The ending kills me. Everytime I see this. I know its coming but i still approach it as if Its my first time. It kills my soul because I woulda killed my mid to spare my son from the mist. it kills me.
@@decadentdevil Indeed. That is why this ending hit so hard for me. Haha, I didn't see it coming. I appreciate what Darabont did on the rewrite/screenplay. And while I do understand why there is some hate for what he did, I think it works for the horror element.
@@billclay9489so you would have not waited to get hungry? Thirsty? Until you saw something? It hit the car? You would just shoot your kids after fighting and doing all he did to save him? 😮
Frank Darabont, the director, always did great jobs adapting Stephen King's books. Darabont was behind this one, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
@@StevenMaine207That's awesome. From what I remember AMC fucked over Frank Durabont over the Walking Dead. The massive drop in quality from season 1 to season 2 was because Durabont left/got kicked from being show runner.
This movie is proof that you don't need insanely expensive CGI, you just need a good story and talented actors to make a good movie. Also, I love that this all takes place over just 3 days.
@@anthonyluna352 would be awesome if someone remastered it as fan service, like the guys from the corridor crew channel. Some of the CGI already looked pretty good, too, like seeing the giant creature through the mist from the car - no complaints.
@@leok7193frank Darabont wanted the movie to be in black and white which would have added a charm to the cheesy cgi making it a little more camp. Check it out, adjust your settings. It's pretty cool.
@@anthonyluna352 Unlike a lot of movies, it’s not even age that makes the CGI look bad. I remember seeing this when it first came out and when Norm was being dragged out of the store, that horrendous CGI completely took me out of it.
Stephen King said that the movie's ending was what his book version lacked. He said if he would have thought about it he would have written it himself. It certainly hits different when you are a parent.
The mist came through the portal the army open, and then the monsters came through wherever the portal was open to the pass or another dimension. That’s why.
I think the mist was just part of the typical atmosphere those creatures lived in normally. The military project just opened a portal over a huge area and that just merged that dimension into our dimension.
Yeah everything you said is the way I saw it too. It wasn't anything more complicated and IIRC they made another movie in that universe where that was confirmed.
Sounds reasonable. BUT The Mist is psychological horror, so it isn't really important in terms of the goal of the movie exploring internalized horror and the frailty of the human mind
If I read correctly -- and I didn't read ALL the books -- the mist was part of Stephen King's DARK TOWER universe, and the military had to have opened up a portal to it, "Stranger Things"-style. The book "From a Buick 8" also explains how the titular vehicle is also a gateway. "It", "Hearts in Atlantis", "Salem's Lot" and a lot of his books/stories are all linked to this universe.
I always loved that it’s not just random angry monsters in the mist. There’s a whole actual ecosystem out there with creatures preying on one another and everything
I agree, it's one of the many reasons why the movie is so intriguing. Additionally, the people are more deadly, than the monsters. In less than two days, they turned into a killing mob, including the act of planning to kill an innocent child.
@@gracehinds6283they made the Christian woman a nut and she was able to get a large majority to follow her in a matter of a few days..seemed a little much.
@@phillyphan1225 this movie is a pretty good representation of how some people would act scared in situations like this since scared people tend to become more vulnerable therefore are more easily influenced
The Mist is not just a good creature feature but a psychological mind twist on how some people can react and turn on each other in a crisis and become worse in a problem
I think not-Carol (the woman who got her children) managed to get to her children because she left *immediately*, before all the creatures made it to town. It is also super lucky, but I think whatever creature(s) had already arrived were already snacking on people, so she managed to slip through.
I think that right after the quake (which i think is the largest creature you see when they're driving, stampeding through the town) was the safest time, as all the smaller creatures were temporarily scared off
All the adults in the jeep agreed it was the thing to do. That being said, can you imagine the agony and guilt? BTW: When the GIANT creature passed by just before the end, that's how the short story (novella, not a full novel) ended. They just drove on into the mist. It was a cliff hanger. Stephen King said he liked the movie ending better and so do I.
@@machfront Let me get this straight, YOU know better than the author Stephen King? It's his work. He wrote it but YOU'RE better qualified to judge? Wow, where can we read your books?
This is the first movie I've seen where BJ was terrified while Asia was laughing!!! BJ's faces were hilarious, y'all should do a short just of his reactions to this movie!!!😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂🤣
Asia was laughing out of nervousness though. She's done it several times. I've been known to do it too when a movie has me really afraid of what might happen.
So project arrowhead was a military endeavour to open a window into another dimension. That dimension has an atmosphere of mist and the creatures from there are adapted to live in the mist. The window became a door however and all the mist spilled into our dimension. The creatures were able to cross over and live inside the areas where the mist was, which is why you see the military burning off the mist with flame throwers at the end. Nothing prehistoric about it.
I actually quite like his theory about it being prehistoric. It does make some sense. I think the mist and the creatures living in it are just as easily prehistoric as extra-dimensional. For all we know, that atmosphere and those creatures could have been Earth at some point in the past.
@@Zorak9595 There is actually quite a lot of fascinating scientific information relating to the Carboniferous and Permian eras available. Giant bugs certainly did exist in the Carboniferous period, but the large creatures (especially of the size in this film) did not coexist with them. Creatures of that size didn't live during that era at all. It is a fiction movie though, so to each their own :)
@@devilkyn1 It is true that he was referring specifically to that timeline, but I was thinking of the theory more broadly as being prehistoric in general. We don't see creatures like the tentacle monster in the fossil records for that time nor would I think the atmosphere at the time would appear cloudy to us. I was thinking of his theory as more of a jumping off point and extended it to a time when the atmosphere was drastically different with little to no oxygen that might appear as the mist did to our vision. Obviously there's no reason to think giant creatures like the tentacle monster ever existed, but I still think it works as a fan theory to speculate that the atmosphere and creatures were from Earth's past, only that it would be far further back than was implied by referring to the "bugs" as giant insects. Extra-dimensional or prehistoric, I was thinking of the "giant insects" as not being actual insects at all, but rather a case of convergent evolution.
@@Zorak9595 I am taking this as a fun exchange of ideas (not an arbuement) and I hope that you are as well. Again, we are also talking about a fictional situation here, but I'm enjoying exchanging ideas with you. My first rebutal is that "mist" has nothing to do with oxyge content of the air. It's all about humidity and temperature. I live next to an ocean and the mornings are foggy almost year round. That said if the atmosphere coming through the portal was of a lower temp and contained more humidity that would account for the Mist spreading like it did. The reason I brought up the Carboniferous Period is that is the only time the oxygen was rich enough to support giant insect/arachnid life as portrayed in the film. I think if you are going to ignore the taxonomy and say insects arn't insects, it makes it harder for you to relate it to Earth's history. I understand that you are saying it might have been in a "cross-over" period, but the periods where you could have giants insects and the period where giant creatures like the tentacle beast are just too far apart. Not from a fossil record standpoint, but from the environments needed to support both sizes of creature. For fun's sake though, with fictional creatures, I'll grant that perhaps there was a world where both types of creatures could thrive in the same environmental conditions. But that's the fun of the film... contemplating the bizarre circumstances of the Mist while facing the horrors of human behavior. Who are the real monsters?!?
You and the other guy are wrong. The military showed up immediately after it happened, but the mist had clearly been being cleared for quite some time before that. They unfortunately were just constantly driving away from them. The mist was being cleared with or without their death. Waiting five more minutes would have had the same result. Although its a neat theory. @@learobinson4450
Saw this movie with a couple of friends, that ending literally left everyone of us speechless for a good minute... Now as a parent myself, I could not imagine experiencing a moment like this.
Funny you said that look like Clint Eastwood... That poster is from King's book(s) The Dark Tower. Specifically its Roland (main character) passing through the Thinny, between dimensions. Roland _was_ based on Clint Eastwood from the Man-with-no-name movies. The Thinny is a nightmare space between dimensions...which is where the actual mist (and its Lovecraftian monsters) comes from. Wheels within wheels.
@@TheKamahl07 The Dark Tower movie is a dud, sadly. Idris Elba was genuinely inspired casting for Roland and MM was excellent as Randy Flagg, but the movie would bore you while pissing you off. There *_was_* going to be an epic "radio-play" podcast of all seven books, approved by King. (I was cast as various minor characters + Blaine The Train!) But it's been dead-in-the-water for several years because Sony Pictures cease and desisted it. 😭🤬
The painting he was working on wasn't Clint Eastwood, but is character inspired by Clint. It's Roland Deschain of the line of Eld. The main protagonist in King's Dark Tower Series. Stephen King's greatest work, which binds all his works together.
The ending is gut-wrenching, but you gotta applaud the movie actually going there, it's like an anti happy ending and the one thing that makes this movie unforgettable! I knew the book before watching the movie so I was even more shocked, but love it since then!
Its fucked up letting david survive, leaving us with him on the ground wailing like that. The natural conclusion to that scenario is dude getting his hands on the nearest piece and ending himself. No way in hell hed be able to live after all that.
@@johnwayne9828It makes me so pissed To think after all that He's the only to survive and see rescue right infront of him The anger,frustration,guilt,all those emotions all at once I wouldn't be surprised if he did off himself with nothing left to live for
its amazing how these people met, 3 actors from this movie and then into the Next series of TWD. i think Dale is the one that comes into the shop warning everyone about the Mist. Carol is the mother who she is trying to get home to her 2 Kids, (WHICH SHE MANAGES TO DO IT. thank god she actually made it home in the Movie) and Andrea being with the Son in the later part of it
@@__taka__8200 And morales from season 1 of TWD is the soldier also the other soldier was an extra in TWD he was the dead soldier in the tank with Rick
I have something more important to comment than talking about a series that is repetitive for most of its seasons. Yes, "Carol", played by Melissa McBride, appears on The Walking Dead too. Stephen King gave his approval to the film adaptation of his book, especially because of its completely different ending. In the book, the characters are left looking for a place to take refuge, and nothing else is revealed, leaving it to the reader's interpretation whether they are saved or not. The ending of the film, however, is more shocking, unfair, painful and shocking, although it maintains coherence and credibility. Even the 'Master of Terror' himself was pleasantly surprised by that final twist.
Someone else may have said this but Frank Darabont, the creator of the adaptation from the comic books to television of “The Walking Dead” until his firing between its first & second seasons and the director of “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) & “The Green Mile” (1999) was offered a much larger paycheck if he changed the ending, but he stuck to his own guts & declined the offer. Also, Stephen King loved this ending! He was mad at himself for not even thinking about this to end the story in his novella, so he applauded Darabont for the ending! Also, you see a majority of the cast of “The Walking Dead” in this movie, three years before the TV show came onto AMC: Laurie Holden as Amanda (Andrea) Jeffrey DeMunn as Dan (Dale) Melissa McBride as the woman with her kids at home (Carol) Juan Gabriel Pareja as Morales, the military soldier who hanged himself (Morales, so he played two different characters with the same name) Sam Witwer as Pvt. Jessup (the zombie in the tank in the first & second episodes) Also, Thomas Jane was offered to play Rick Grimes when the show was pitched to HBO, but he was already starring in another HBO TV show, “Hung”; plus, HBO rejected the pitch so it all went to AMC, Andrew Lincoln was chosen & accepted to play Rick. And, the rest is history…
One of the few films Stephen King actually liked 😂 I believe he liked the movie ending over his books ending which is if I remember correctly it was just them driving out of the mist. I think it was a perfect ending while not having a perfect outcome it was more emotional and shocking since you really want this group to make it out.
I dont think the mist went away or that they drove out of it. They were at a hotel or something for the night and heard that in the radio. @darthken815
Here's an interesting fact. Apparently in the ending when we see Melissa Mcbride's character, the mother who went for her kids. Originally it was supposed to be the people from the supermarket being seen in the truck, showing if they stayed longer they could have been rescued. Yet from what I could understand they couldn't get most of the extras back for that scene, so the opted for the mother.
There are actually 5 actors in this that went on to play in The Walking Dead. (Andrea) Laurie Holden, (Dale) Jeffery DeMunn, (Carol) Melissa McBride, (Morales) Juan Gabriel Pareja, and the young solider (Private Jessup) Sam Witwer who played a walker in the tank with Rick in the 2nd Episode.
There is one thing that I have always believed: we do not know how long the five passengers were in the car before David Drayton shot the other four (including his own son). It could have been one full day. He did promise his son that the bugs would not get him and he kept his word.
UHH-OHH 😆 Here we go 👍 📹 Bring on the screams for spooky season. 👻 🎃 Three cast members from "The walking dead" were in this film. Carol, Dale and Angela. .... Notice Carol survives The military opening the alter universe was like opening "The call of Cthulhu ", from the "Lovecraft" novels...... Those creatures definitely resembled the Cthulhu mythos
In a video game called The Secret World, where nearly every myth and legend is actually true, something exactly like this happens where a strange Mist rolls into a cape town, and inside the Mist are all kinds of monsters. The explanation for it is really cool: Excalibur was removed from the stone. It was a protective barrier between dimensions keeping evil at bay.
Freaking Frank Derabont... Imagine adapting a Steven King story, completely changing the ending, and then having the master of horror himself clap you on the back and say you did it better.
I watched this yesterday on patreon. Your guys’ expressions at the end were amazing to watch!!! We all felt that way. Love you guys!!! ✌️👏 Ps. My new favorite word to use ( thank you BJ) Pissivity. I was dead 😂
That is why "The Mist" is such a great movie. The military scientists opened a portal that allowed the creatures in enter our world. I loved the ending because it did not go to the usual happy ending.
Legendary ending. And this sure ain't no Shawshank Redemption or Green Mile; this is down the dark alley of Stephen King. P.S. The black & white version of this movie is awesome!
I unsubbed from Nikki and Steve reacts after 4 years of patreon because they called this movie "bird-demic trash". Can you believe reactors could get something so wrong?!
@@bryanb3352 - I know. I'm not much for book reading but I did read the novella, which ends with them driving off into the mist, into the unknown. King said, upon this movie getting made, that if he had thought of this movie's ending when he wrote the story he would have written it in himself.
Black and white version? I think you're thinking of a different "the mist". There was a 50s or 60s horror movie that was remade in the mid 00s, both called the mist but the story was about a town being attacked by vengeful spirits from an old shipwreck. Didnt have anything to do with stephen king.
@@johnwayne9828 - No. Released on the Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray's of the movie, included is the movie in black & white. Type "the mist black and white" into the TH-cam search bar and there is actually right now a video of the whole movie, a video of Frank Darabont explaining why he prefers that version (and it played before the b&w version started on DVD/Blu-ray), and other videos. And I believe the movie you're talking about is The Fog. I know of the John Carpenter one from 1980.
Really loved your October opening sequence for the channel, guys. Also, I've never seen BJ as upset by a movie as this one. Great reactions, guys! Thanks for sharing with us.
i don't think it's a dark ending at all. it's a warning about the dangers of giving up hope. for a film that doesn't have anything nice to say about religion, it sure ends up doing faith well.
@@westcoast7429 True, but you still can't say it's not a dark ending shooting his own son. The message might be positive, but what happens is dark and tragic.
@@westcoast7429to be fait to the characters, they drove far enough away to run a tank of gas out the mist still went on. There was little in the way of hope from their perspective.
The military opened a portal to another world or dimension. Creatures from that world enter through the portal along with the Mist. The Mist being the atmosphere or weather or whatever you wanna call it where these creatures breathe and live. Similar to how earth's weather was so different 65 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
If you haven't finalized your list for October, consider checking out "IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS" (1994) and "PRINCE OF DARKNESS" (1987). They're both a hoot. ;)
A note on Steven King himself. People often think he is anti-religous because he often depicts relgious people as selfish villains in his books. In reality, he's against religious fantasm and views fanatics as selfish cruel people who are often act as the villain of their own book. One of his most famous books, The Stand, even depicts people of faith as the heros while the fanatics are the servants of evil.
@@trueblaze84not all of the people in the Boulder Free Zone were believers. Nick Andros was an atheist. The people in Flaggs Vegas were mostly people who were scared and attracted to an authoritarian figure to get things up and running. There were psychos and sadists attracted to Flagg, but most were just scared people.
Possible the time portal opened up a Carboniferous period ( 300 million years ago ) , whereby Oxygen is more of 10%+ compare to now , hence the thick mist/fog , and the ancient earth insects are at their biggest size during those time period ...
It's a very interesting theory. I hadn't considered it until BJ mentioned it, but it makes a lot of sense. There's really no reason why it couldn't be Earth's past.
@@Zorak9595 : Maybe the duration of the Storm allowed the Mist/Fog sets in , that would be enough time to let many giant insects 🦞🦀🐙🦂🕷️🕸️🦟🦗🐜🐛 from the ancient past to get thru the time portal into our current world , ended up us as their dinner ..
The portal the scientists opened connected to the dark place between the worlds, as described in the Dark Tower series. All of the creatures in this story/movie are from there.
They took a huge chance with the ending IMO... but the payoff was more than memorable. Such a great horror movie. One of King's best stories back when he was in his prime. This cast of characters was INCREDIBLE. Trapping the different personalities in the store like that was a genius storytelling tactic.
I love this movie even though I'm not someone who generally likes horror and scary movies, but the end broke me. I told a good friend to watch, thinking she'd like the movie since she likes horror/scary movies. She was so mad at me because of the ending. Broke her up too.
This is a great movie! Loved your reactions! I spotted a few actors from The Walking Dead. I don't remember their real names but the lady that left to get her son played Carol and the blonde played Andrea. The old man played Dale (with the RV)
Another Stephen King classic. Love his books. Haven’t read this one but heard it’s good. I have read Carrie, Christine, Fire Starter and Salems Lot. I know you guys watched Carrie. Loved that one. The other 3 I highly recommend as movies. Christine is probably my favorite 👍👍 Love the channel here in So. Cal USA 🇺🇸 love to all! ❤️👍👍🌹
It’s a really good book they did great adapting it into a movie only big difference is the ending in the book they simply drive past the mist and you know what happens in the film, the best choice they made was changing that ending even Stephan King liked it better than his.
When I watched this, I felt the same way BJ did. I was pissed. In fact, I feel the same way every time I see this movie, lol. Of course, since this was a King novella, all the troupes had to be in it. That ending was just a shot to the heart. I never checke out the TV show, but I will never forget this depressing movie. As far as what the Mist is or where it comes from, the theory is that the mist poured out of the gateway that was opened in Shaymore, or that the Mist itself is the opened gateway itself which houses and unleashes all the crestures. Theres another possibility that the mist is whats called the "Todash Darkness," a void-like realm that houses the creatures that King wrote about in his DARK TOWER series. As always I recommened if you enjoyed this film, watch John Carpenter's "THE FOG," which shares the idea of something hidden in an ominous fog or mist bank.
4 TWD actors INCLUDING Carol (Melissa McBride) but you only recognized Laurie Holden (Andrea)? 🤔 I'm guessing there were cuts. Also...of course Carol would survive! ❤ This.
whats really going to cook youre noodle is that when you realized they were driving away from help the whole time . the army was behind them the entire time , its crazy to think about !
Interesting theorizing. I always imagined that there was a world entirely covered in mist and those creatures lived there and that mist was their atmosphere, and that when they opened a portal the mist started to pour through. Then the creatures sensed food and followed the mist through the portal. The military then tried to contain the situation, but was unable to stop it from spreading into the town. I assume they eventually closed the portal and by the end were able to dissipate the remaining mist. I also assume the creatures could not survive outside of the mist.
So the military was doing experiments to look into parallel universes. However, the storm ended up hitting the area causing a power surge that caused them to lose containment and resulted in the portal expanding causing the mist and allowing creatures to cross over to our world. After a few days the portal closed again leaving the creatures behind and allowing the mist to slowly disappear. What i love about this story is that the creatures themselves were just animals trying to survive. yet because people are so panicky and desperate to find a meaning behind everything they cling to the first person who gives them answers that they don't care if the answers are true or not. Normally i dont like "humans were the real monsters all along" stories but this one i do.
@@craignellist7277 exactly, so it was totally understandable. Instead of a tank it could have just easily been creatures who would have torn them apart.
Project Arrowhead was basically trying to create a window to see other dimensions. The storm damaged the experiment site overloading the "window" and turning it into a portal that allowed the mist and the creatures in it to enter our universe. In the original script of the movie, there was a prologue scene that showed this (with the gateway being inside a tank and then lightning hitting it) and that's when the mist expands through the base and then into the surrounding area.
I'm surprised there's any confusion about this. Movie tells you straight up: military experiment opened a doorway to another dimension by mistake, the creatures from it came through, along with their atmosphere (the mist).
The thing that's chilling is...Mrs.Carmody is such a terrifying villain, but...was she wrong? Or a dark prophet. For as soon as the boy was sacrificed...the mist disappeared...
The book does not end this way. However, Stephen King said he liked the way the movie ends better.
Reading this story years ago, I was a wreck!
The movie ending was perfect. Sometimes you just have to go there to make it perfect. Will Farrel has a movie called "Stranger than Fiction" you should watch it if you havnt seen it. You'll get what I'm talking about after watching it.
@@SuperiorlySubversiveI love stranger than fiction ❤
Of course he does.. I don't have the best opinion of that guy.
Knowing full well I stand no chance, I'm going out fighting. Not like them....
I have never seen BJ so conflicted!!! "I am leaving. I am not staying in the store." 3 minutes later, "I am staying here! I am not going anywhere" 10 minutes later, "I am going with them. I am going!" 3 minutes later, "I am not going out I am staying!" LOL
A movie with one of the most... memorable endings I have seen.
Being a father of two who would have done the same thing. The ending kills me. Everytime I see this. I know its coming but i still approach it as if Its my first time. It kills my soul because I woulda killed my mid to spare my son from the mist. it kills me.
The book has a different ending
Its right up there with "I see dead people, they don't know their dead" for a twist ending.
@@decadentdevil Indeed. That is why this ending hit so hard for me. Haha, I didn't see it coming. I appreciate what Darabont did on the rewrite/screenplay. And while I do understand why there is some hate for what he did, I think it works for the horror element.
@@billclay9489so you would have not waited to get hungry? Thirsty? Until you saw something? It hit the car? You would just shoot your kids after fighting and doing all he did to save him? 😮
The ending of this movie ripped out a piece of my soul.
First time I watched this movie it was late at night and I actually blocked out the ending until someone at work talked about it.
Me too
You mean because it said Harvey Weinstein was an executive producer?
You are not alone
@@Sandman60077 R we supposed to laugh at ur "joke"???
After witnessing the most SAVAGE/EVIL/DARK ending in cinematic history:
"Are there any out takes?" 🤣
🤣🤣 To be fair, I kinda figured B.J. meant a post-credits scene.. But either way, it cracked me up. Lol
blooper compilation 😂
I don't think outtake means what he think it means 😂😂😂
B.J. was in disbelief is all. He, no one, had seen an ending like this before.
yeah that kinda threw me off, lol theyre adorable
I think the reason “Carol” survived was because she left so early before too many monsters came through. That’s my take.
Exactly, and she probably walked real silently to her house.
I think it was because all the monsters were full from killing other people and ignored her.
I think it was because she was by herself actually. These creatures seemed to be attracted to noise and crowds.
I think they all knew what a savage Carol is
@@Tateorsomething Nice
DONT LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW!!!!! Hahaha great reaction !!
Every time I go to the grocery store now, I'm looking at those windows and thinking "Will they hold against monsters from another dimension???"
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Asia has black belts in Finger Peep Fu and Blanket Kwon Do.
And also Jump-Scare-Jitsu.
Her and Katwatcheshorormovies should stage a fight. If you know, you know
@@billthomas478 absolutely! she’s always karate chopping the air! 😆
Frank Darabont, the director, always did great jobs adapting Stephen King's books. Darabont was behind this one, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
Frank is coming out of retirement to direct 2 episodes of Stranger Things season 5. Hold on to your hat.
@@StevenMaine207That's awesome. From what I remember AMC fucked over Frank Durabont over the Walking Dead. The massive drop in quality from season 1 to season 2 was because Durabont left/got kicked from being show runner.
The walking dead would of been waaaaay better had the AMC bus didn't happen. He would of did justice to Negan and the Governor.
At least 3 people in the cast were in the walking dead. Carol is the only one of them left lol.
@@StevenMaine207NO WAY!?😮
"She got expiated expeditiously" is the best thing I've heard in any reaction to this movie. 10/10 joke.
This movie is proof that you don't need insanely expensive CGI, you just need a good story and talented actors to make a good movie. Also, I love that this all takes place over just 3 days.
That said, CGI was atrocious enough in spots to take you out of the movie. Neck sting and tentacles were very egregious.
@@leok7193 Yep. This movie could be a timeless classic if not for the awful CGI. They honestly should have done it all with practical effects
@@anthonyluna352 would be awesome if someone remastered it as fan service, like the guys from the corridor crew channel. Some of the CGI already looked pretty good, too, like seeing the giant creature through the mist from the car - no complaints.
@@leok7193frank Darabont wanted the movie to be in black and white which would have added a charm to the cheesy cgi making it a little more camp. Check it out, adjust your settings. It's pretty cool.
@@anthonyluna352 Unlike a lot of movies, it’s not even age that makes the CGI look bad. I remember seeing this when it first came out and when Norm was being dragged out of the store, that horrendous CGI completely took me out of it.
Stephen King said that the movie's ending was what his book version lacked. He said if he would have thought about it he would have written it himself. It certainly hits different when you are a parent.
True, ironically I watched it the first time with my daughter. I just grabbed and hugged and kissed on her and cried so hard.
you think he didn't?
The mist came through the portal the army open, and then the monsters came through wherever the portal was open to the pass or another dimension. That’s why.
I think the mist was just part of the typical atmosphere those creatures lived in normally. The military project just opened a portal over a huge area and that just merged that dimension into our dimension.
Yeah everything you said is the way I saw it too. It wasn't anything more complicated and IIRC they made another movie in that universe where that was confirmed.
Sounds reasonable. BUT The Mist is psychological horror, so it isn't really important in terms of the goal of the movie exploring internalized horror and the frailty of the human mind
Correct. The movie straight up tells people that, and they still walk away confused 🤷♂️
@@masztaarc what movie is that? I never saw it
If I read correctly -- and I didn't read ALL the books -- the mist was part of Stephen King's DARK TOWER universe, and the military had to have opened up a portal to it, "Stranger Things"-style. The book "From a Buick 8" also explains how the titular vehicle is also a gateway. "It", "Hearts in Atlantis", "Salem's Lot" and a lot of his books/stories are all linked to this universe.
I always loved that it’s not just random angry monsters in the mist. There’s a whole actual ecosystem out there with creatures preying on one another and everything
Literally Half Life
I agree, it's one of the many reasons why the movie is so intriguing. Additionally, the people are more deadly, than the monsters. In less than two days, they turned into a killing mob, including the act of planning to kill an innocent child.
@@gracehinds6283they made the Christian woman a nut and she was able to get a large majority to follow her in a matter of a few days..seemed a little much.
@@phillyphan1225 this movie is a pretty good representation of how some people would act scared in situations like this since scared people tend to become more vulnerable therefore are more easily influenced
@@phillyphan1225not much all, has happened many times throughout history, and without sci-fi monsters.
The Mist is not just a good creature feature but a psychological mind twist on how some people can react and turn on each other in a crisis and become worse in a problem
It’s the whole “which one is the real monster?” thing
Like BJ said, you see human nature in a survival situation. Everyone just goes Lord of the Flies, when the chips are down.
And yet another indictment upon religion. 😂
I'm not complaining -- really, I do love seeing Marcia in action.
Oooh like og night of the living dead
@@hardryv3719she's brilliant.
Love this movie! I saw it at the drive in ....in the fog. I did NOT get out of the car. No bathroom breaks, no snacks. Lol
People would pay extra for that experience lol
😂😂 I wouldn't get out of the car either!
So you had no drinks , no nothing? 🤣
@ItsChanteBri nope. Wasn't risking it. Lol
@@staciemiller7465 that’s crazy 💀
The BALLS it took to make this ending. I LOVE it!!!!
I really liked this film... RIP Andre Braugher and Frances Sternhagen.. You are truly missed.
This movie teaches us all a good lesson. When u feel like giving up, just wait Longer 😮
that and get rid of the religious people first.
I’ve been waiting 35 years. Shit is taking too long.
@@SuperiorlySubversive That is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. And I’m an atheist.
I think not-Carol (the woman who got her children) managed to get to her children because she left *immediately*, before all the creatures made it to town. It is also super lucky, but I think whatever creature(s) had already arrived were already snacking on people, so she managed to slip through.
I think that right after the quake (which i think is the largest creature you see when they're driving, stampeding through the town) was the safest time, as all the smaller creatures were temporarily scared off
Those are Florida mosquitoes 😂😂😂😂😂😂
nah more like Texas Mosquitoes
@@specialopssoldier1 mosquitoes south of the mason dixon line. We got em in TN
Kentucky ones are super mosquitos. Lol
Alaska’s state bird
That had me rolling
All the adults in the jeep agreed it was the thing to do. That being said, can you imagine the agony and guilt? BTW: When the GIANT creature passed by just before the end, that's how the short story (novella, not a full novel) ended. They just drove on into the mist. It was a cliff hanger. Stephen King said he liked the movie ending better and so do I.
He, like many others, was wrong.
The original ending is so much better!
@@machfront it is so annoying to leave more than one comment defending the book ending lol get a life
@@machfront Let me get this straight, YOU know better than the author Stephen King? It's his work. He wrote it but YOU'RE better qualified to judge? Wow, where can we read your books?
@@machfront, just you are wrong and everyone else is right.
@@victorclemente-mt4to Meh hes probably the only one read the book. Most people like book version better than the movie in most cases
This is the first movie I've seen where BJ was terrified while Asia was laughing!!! BJ's faces were hilarious, y'all should do a short just of his reactions to this movie!!!😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂🤣
Asia was laughing out of nervousness though. She's done it several times. I've been known to do it too when a movie has me really afraid of what might happen.
@@everythingisveganbut...4688 Asia laughs when nervous or afraid. Horror seems to affect B.J. more than in the past. He needs his own blanket.
He might have a bug phobia
So project arrowhead was a military endeavour to open a window into another dimension. That dimension has an atmosphere of mist and the creatures from there are adapted to live in the mist. The window became a door however and all the mist spilled into our dimension. The creatures were able to cross over and live inside the areas where the mist was, which is why you see the military burning off the mist with flame throwers at the end. Nothing prehistoric about it.
Was the movie Cloverfield a sort of an extension to the mist ?
I actually quite like his theory about it being prehistoric. It does make some sense. I think the mist and the creatures living in it are just as easily prehistoric as extra-dimensional. For all we know, that atmosphere and those creatures could have been Earth at some point in the past.
@@Zorak9595 There is actually quite a lot of fascinating scientific information relating to the Carboniferous and Permian eras available. Giant bugs certainly did exist in the Carboniferous period, but the large creatures (especially of the size in this film) did not coexist with them. Creatures of that size didn't live during that era at all. It is a fiction movie though, so to each their own :)
@@devilkyn1 It is true that he was referring specifically to that timeline, but I was thinking of the theory more broadly as being prehistoric in general. We don't see creatures like the tentacle monster in the fossil records for that time nor would I think the atmosphere at the time would appear cloudy to us.
I was thinking of his theory as more of a jumping off point and extended it to a time when the atmosphere was drastically different with little to no oxygen that might appear as the mist did to our vision. Obviously there's no reason to think giant creatures like the tentacle monster ever existed, but I still think it works as a fan theory to speculate that the atmosphere and creatures were from Earth's past, only that it would be far further back than was implied by referring to the "bugs" as giant insects. Extra-dimensional or prehistoric, I was thinking of the "giant insects" as not being actual insects at all, but rather a case of convergent evolution.
@@Zorak9595 I am taking this as a fun exchange of ideas (not an arbuement) and I hope that you are as well. Again, we are also talking about a fictional situation here, but I'm enjoying exchanging ideas with you.
My first rebutal is that "mist" has nothing to do with oxyge content of the air. It's all about humidity and temperature. I live next to an ocean and the mornings are foggy almost year round. That said if the atmosphere coming through the portal was of a lower temp and contained more humidity that would account for the Mist spreading like it did.
The reason I brought up the Carboniferous Period is that is the only time the oxygen was rich enough to support giant insect/arachnid life as portrayed in the film. I think if you are going to ignore the taxonomy and say insects arn't insects, it makes it harder for you to relate it to Earth's history. I understand that you are saying it might have been in a "cross-over" period, but the periods where you could have giants insects and the period where giant creatures like the tentacle beast are just too far apart. Not from a fossil record standpoint, but from the environments needed to support both sizes of creature.
For fun's sake though, with fictional creatures, I'll grant that perhaps there was a world where both types of creatures could thrive in the same environmental conditions. But that's the fun of the film... contemplating the bizarre circumstances of the Mist while facing the horrors of human behavior. Who are the real monsters?!?
The predictions the woman made were just guesses based on their situation. Guessing someone will die is not a hard prediction to make
Also, if nobody dies, she can encourage everyone to thank God for it.
She was right when she said they had to sacrifice the boy in order to appease God so the mist would clear. That didn’t happen until the kid died.
@@learobinson4450wrong lol the 3 adults died after the kid so it was the death of the last adult that cleared the mist
Oh, come on. They died within a second of each other and the Mist didn't clear the area around the car _immediately_ @@JES408
You and the other guy are wrong. The military showed up immediately after it happened, but the mist had clearly been being cleared for quite some time before that. They unfortunately were just constantly driving away from them. The mist was being cleared with or without their death. Waiting five more minutes would have had the same result. Although its a neat theory. @@learobinson4450
54:38 I have reached a new level of pissivity! 😂😂
My new favorite word. 🤣
Saw this movie with a couple of friends, that ending literally left everyone of us speechless for a good minute... Now as a parent myself, I could not imagine experiencing a moment like this.
Funny you said that look like Clint Eastwood...
That poster is from King's book(s) The Dark Tower. Specifically its Roland (main character) passing through the Thinny, between dimensions.
Roland _was_ based on Clint Eastwood from the Man-with-no-name movies.
The Thinny is a nightmare space between dimensions...which is where the actual mist (and its Lovecraftian monsters) comes from.
Wheels within wheels.
Might have to read The Dark Tower. Even though i don't know the story, can't help but feel like the movie left a lot out...
@Raptchur 7 books, iirc. When I heard the movie wasn't part of a series, rather the ENTIRE series, I never watched it
@@TheKamahl07 The Dark Tower movie is a dud, sadly. Idris Elba was genuinely inspired casting for Roland and MM was excellent as Randy Flagg, but the movie would bore you while pissing you off.
There *_was_* going to be an epic "radio-play" podcast of all seven books, approved by King. (I was cast as various minor characters + Blaine The Train!) But it's been dead-in-the-water for several years because Sony Pictures cease and desisted it. 😭🤬
@@RaptchurThe Dark Tower book series is excellent specifically books 1-5 (8 in total)
@@TheKamahl07There are 8 books in the series.
I remember walking out of the theater for this one. Usually people talk about the movie on the way out. Everyone was dead silent.
Never forget when this first hit on DVD. Me and my Father just sat staring at the TV in stunned disbelief silence after watching that ending!
Carol has permanent plot armor
The painting he was working on wasn't Clint Eastwood, but is character inspired by Clint. It's Roland Deschain of the line of Eld. The main protagonist in King's Dark Tower Series. Stephen King's greatest work, which binds all his works together.
Mike Flanagan has bought the rights to make The Dark Tower. It's currently in production or pre-production. He's definitely the guy to do it.
As soon as I saw your thumbnail and the title 'The Mist' I thought: Oh I have to see their reaction to that ending!!
The ending is gut-wrenching, but you gotta applaud the movie actually going there, it's like an anti happy ending and the one thing that makes this movie unforgettable! I knew the book before watching the movie so I was even more shocked, but love it since then!
Its fucked up letting david survive, leaving us with him on the ground wailing like that. The natural conclusion to that scenario is dude getting his hands on the nearest piece and ending himself. No way in hell hed be able to live after all that.
@@johnwayne9828It makes me so pissed
To think after all that
He's the only to survive and see rescue right infront of him
The anger,frustration,guilt,all those emotions all at once
I wouldn't be surprised if he did off himself with nothing left to live for
@@johnwayne9828he goofy for that bc somebody else woulda seen those truck. I would got me one of them bullets. For sure.
It's only an unhappy ending from his point of view. Everyone else should be thrilled! The mist is clearing! The monsters are dying. Hurray!
Hi crew! This movie was directed by Frank Darabont. He directed the first season of The Walking Dead, Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile!
He did the 2nd season too. The just cut his budget and he bounced.
Nice you noticed Andrea from The Walking Dead- too bad you didn't notice Dale or Carol as well =D
Morales also
its amazing how these people met, 3 actors from this movie and then into the Next series of TWD. i think Dale is the one that comes into the shop warning everyone about the Mist. Carol is the mother who she is trying to get home to her 2 Kids, (WHICH SHE MANAGES TO DO IT. thank god she actually made it home in the Movie) and Andrea being with the Son in the later part of it
@@__taka__8200 And morales from season 1 of TWD is the soldier also the other soldier was an extra in TWD he was the dead soldier in the tank with Rick
@@iamaretheone4083 ooh that was him!?! the one that gets sent outside by the mist and gotten killed?
I have something more important to comment than talking about a series that is repetitive for most of its seasons. Yes, "Carol", played by Melissa McBride, appears on The Walking Dead too. Stephen King gave his approval to the film adaptation of his book, especially because of its completely different ending. In the book, the characters are left looking for a place to take refuge, and nothing else is revealed, leaving it to the reader's interpretation whether they are saved or not. The ending of the film, however, is more shocking, unfair, painful and shocking, although it maintains coherence and credibility. Even the 'Master of Terror' himself was pleasantly surprised by that final twist.
Finally!!! ☺️
Happy October, everybody!!! 🍂🎃👻
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I waited THAT ending. I knew you'll be shocked
Someone else may have said this but Frank Darabont, the creator of the adaptation from the comic books to television of “The Walking Dead” until his firing between its first & second seasons and the director of “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) & “The Green Mile” (1999) was offered a much larger paycheck if he changed the ending, but he stuck to his own guts & declined the offer.
Also, Stephen King loved this ending! He was mad at himself for not even thinking about this to end the story in his novella, so he applauded Darabont for the ending!
Also, you see a majority of the cast of “The Walking Dead” in this movie, three years before the TV show came onto AMC:
Laurie Holden as Amanda (Andrea)
Jeffrey DeMunn as Dan (Dale)
Melissa McBride as the woman with her kids at home (Carol)
Juan Gabriel Pareja as Morales, the military soldier who hanged himself (Morales, so he played two different characters with the same name)
Sam Witwer as Pvt. Jessup (the zombie in the tank in the first & second episodes)
Also, Thomas Jane was offered to play Rick Grimes when the show was pitched to HBO, but he was already starring in another HBO TV show, “Hung”; plus, HBO rejected the pitch so it all went to AMC, Andrew Lincoln was chosen & accepted to play Rick.
And, the rest is history…
Goodbye Shermanator. They got the Shermanator. 😢😅
One of the few films Stephen King actually liked 😂 I believe he liked the movie ending over his books ending which is if I remember correctly it was just them driving out of the mist. I think it was a perfect ending while not having a perfect outcome it was more emotional and shocking since you really want this group to make it out.
Yes, and while driving away they hear two words through the static on the radio: "Hartford" and "hope"
@@darthken815I didn’t even remember that it’s been a minute.
I dont think the mist went away or that they drove out of it. They were at a hotel or something for the night and heard that in the radio. @darthken815
@hitmixhyepock9405 honestly? Classic King. Bad ending!
@@hitmixhyepock9405keep in mind I read this in high school once so the details are fuzzy but the ending wasn’t rememberable tbh.
😅😂(13:25)BJ; "What's That Behind Him?"...ASIA; 🫣🫣🫣"WHERE??".😅😂😅 he asked her while her face was covered😅😂and she still answered "Where?"😅
Man, Asia felt that one. That face felt every bit of what he is going to have to live with.
Here's an interesting fact. Apparently in the ending when we see Melissa Mcbride's character, the mother who went for her kids. Originally it was supposed to be the people from the supermarket being seen in the truck, showing if they stayed longer they could have been rescued. Yet from what I could understand they couldn't get most of the extras back for that scene, so the opted for the mother.
Staying at the grocery store wasnt an option seeing as that group wanted to sacrifice them.
There are actually 5 actors in this that went on to play in The Walking Dead.
(Andrea) Laurie Holden, (Dale) Jeffery DeMunn, (Carol) Melissa McBride, (Morales) Juan Gabriel Pareja, and the young solider (Private Jessup) Sam Witwer who played a walker in the tank with Rick in the 2nd Episode.
You know a horror movie is good when you’re yelling at the other person to be quiet and not scare you.
There is one thing that I have always believed: we do not know how long the five passengers were in the car before David Drayton shot the other four (including his own son). It could have been one full day. He did promise his son that the bugs would not get him and he kept his word.
Probably less than a day. However long it would take to run a tank of gas out.
@@johnwayne9828 I meant that they had run out of gas and then waited a day to see if anything could be done.
There are three different cast members from the original Walking Dead in this movie. Characters: Carol, Andrea and Dale
The Mist came out of the portal that the military opened during the Arrowhead Project. All those creatures just poured in from another dimension.
“DONT LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW!” I remember my “pissivity” when I first saw this, I felt just like BJ!
I wish you could feel the level of excitement I get when I see that Asia is watching a scary movie 😂😂 scared Asia is my favorite Asia ❤❤❤
UHH-OHH 😆 Here we go 👍 📹
Bring on the screams for spooky season. 👻 🎃
Three cast members from "The walking dead" were in this film.
Carol, Dale and Angela. .... Notice Carol survives
The military opening the alter universe was like opening "The call of Cthulhu ", from the "Lovecraft" novels...... Those creatures definitely resembled the Cthulhu mythos
In a video game called The Secret World, where nearly every myth and legend is actually true, something exactly like this happens where a strange Mist rolls into a cape town, and inside the Mist are all kinds of monsters. The explanation for it is really cool: Excalibur was removed from the stone. It was a protective barrier between dimensions keeping evil at bay.
This has one of the most shocking and most controversial horror movie endings of all time!
Lol and usually the source material is more stuffed up but in this case the adaption is more f'd up 😂
Horrible Ending!!
you never seen A Serbian Film
@@gradypowell5391 cap one of the best endings ever
Freaking Frank Derabont... Imagine adapting a Steven King story, completely changing the ending, and then having the master of horror himself clap you on the back and say you did it better.
I watched this yesterday on patreon. Your guys’ expressions at the end were amazing to watch!!!
We all felt that way.
Love you guys!!!
✌️👏
Ps. My new favorite word to use ( thank you BJ) Pissivity.
I was dead 😂
the best ending to a movie ever.
Don't forget "The Thing". After all these years people are still talking about the end of the movie.
This ranks right up there with the ending of Seven for surprise endings.
That is why "The Mist" is such a great movie. The military scientists opened a portal that allowed the creatures in enter our world. I loved the ending because it did not go to the usual happy ending.
Legendary ending. And this sure ain't no Shawshank Redemption or Green Mile; this is down the dark alley of Stephen King.
P.S. The black & white version of this movie is awesome!
I unsubbed from Nikki and Steve reacts after 4 years of patreon because they called this movie "bird-demic trash". Can you believe reactors could get something so wrong?!
Not King's ending, but he reportedly liked it better.
@@bryanb3352 - I know. I'm not much for book reading but I did read the novella, which ends with them driving off into the mist, into the unknown. King said, upon this movie getting made, that if he had thought of this movie's ending when he wrote the story he would have written it in himself.
Black and white version? I think you're thinking of a different "the mist". There was a 50s or 60s horror movie that was remade in the mid 00s, both called the mist but the story was about a town being attacked by vengeful spirits from an old shipwreck. Didnt have anything to do with stephen king.
@@johnwayne9828 - No. Released on the Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray's of the movie, included is the movie in black & white. Type "the mist black and white" into the TH-cam search bar and there is actually right now a video of the whole movie, a video of Frank Darabont explaining why he prefers that version (and it played before the b&w version started on DVD/Blu-ray), and other videos.
And I believe the movie you're talking about is The Fog. I know of the John Carpenter one from 1980.
Really loved your October opening sequence for the channel, guys. Also, I've never seen BJ as upset by a movie as this one. Great reactions, guys! Thanks for sharing with us.
I love this ending, I know that sounds morbid and I don't intend it to be that way. Things just ending terribly sometimes, regardless of intention.
i don't think it's a dark ending at all. it's a warning about the dangers of giving up hope. for a film that doesn't have anything nice to say about religion, it sure ends up doing faith well.
@@westcoast7429 I really appreciate that outlook, I honestly didnt look at it that way.
@@westcoast7429 True, but you still can't say it's not a dark ending shooting his own son. The message might be positive, but what happens is dark and tragic.
@@westcoast7429to be fait to the characters, they drove far enough away to run a tank of gas out the mist still went on. There was little in the way of hope from their perspective.
May not like what happened at the end, but it was a brilliant and ballsy way to end the movie.
The military opened a portal to another world or dimension. Creatures from that world enter through the portal along with the Mist. The Mist being the atmosphere or weather or whatever you wanna call it where these creatures breathe and live. Similar to how earth's weather was so different 65 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
The woman that left to go home to check her kids was wearing a 4 leaf 🍀 clover necklace, meaning lucky.
I can't believe this is my 3rd year going through horror movies with you guys! Time flies when we're having fun
Thanks for bring here every step of the way! We thank you so much!
Frank Darabont sure knows how to write the most dramatic and powerful endings! The Mist, The Fly II, and The Shawshank Redemption.
And The Green Mile. Darabont genuinely gets the Stephen King universe and knows how to make those books into film.
Frank is directing two episodes of Stranger Things season 5. 😮
If you haven't finalized your list for October, consider checking out "IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS" (1994) and "PRINCE OF DARKNESS" (1987). They're both a hoot. ;)
This movie was filmed in Shreveport, La. Lots of my friends built this set. I worked on Year One at the same time.
A note on Steven King himself. People often think he is anti-religous because he often depicts relgious people as selfish villains in his books. In reality, he's against religious fantasm and views fanatics as selfish cruel people who are often act as the villain of their own book. One of his most famous books, The Stand, even depicts people of faith as the heros while the fanatics are the servants of evil.
Its just "The Stand" if anyone was looking. The ending was goofy but at least if gives us Randal Flagg
@@razycrandomgirl ya "The Stand", my bad. Fixed
@@trueblaze84not all of the people in the Boulder Free Zone were believers. Nick Andros was an atheist. The people in Flaggs Vegas were mostly people who were scared and attracted to an authoritarian figure to get things up and running. There were psychos and sadists attracted to Flagg, but most were just scared people.
Possible the time portal opened up a Carboniferous period ( 300 million years ago ) , whereby Oxygen is more of 10%+ compare to now , hence the thick mist/fog , and the ancient earth insects are at their biggest size during those time period ...
It's a very interesting theory. I hadn't considered it until BJ mentioned it, but it makes a lot of sense. There's really no reason why it couldn't be Earth's past.
@@Zorak9595 : Maybe the duration of the Storm allowed the Mist/Fog sets in , that would be enough time to let many giant insects 🦞🦀🐙🦂🕷️🕸️🦟🦗🐜🐛 from the ancient past to get thru the time portal into our current world , ended up us as their dinner ..
The portal the scientists opened connected to the dark place between the worlds, as described in the Dark Tower series. All of the creatures in this story/movie are from there.
Today I learned….. pissiveity 😂😂
Great reaction 🫶🏾
They took a huge chance with the ending IMO... but the payoff was more than memorable. Such a great horror movie. One of King's best stories back when he was in his prime. This cast of characters was INCREDIBLE. Trapping the different personalities in the store like that was a genius storytelling tactic.
Poor Asia has to watch that spiders scene 😂 RIP Andre Braugher
That ending still shocks me. It’s crazy. I love this movie!
Another reason to love October. Thanks! :]
Dragonfly big mama spider locust.... exactly
His Dad promised he wouldn't let the monsters get him 😭😭😭
Dad turned out to be the biggest monster of them all😂😂😂😂
Asia & BJ’s commentary during their reaction is amazing 😂. Every film release should automatically come with their commentary track!!
I love this movie even though I'm not someone who generally likes horror and scary movies, but the end broke me. I told a good friend to watch, thinking she'd like the movie since she likes horror/scary movies. She was so mad at me because of the ending. Broke her up too.
This is a great movie! Loved your reactions!
I spotted a few actors from The Walking Dead. I don't remember their real names but the lady that left to get her son played Carol and the blonde played Andrea. The old man played Dale (with the RV)
Another Stephen King classic. Love his books. Haven’t read this one but heard it’s good. I have read Carrie, Christine, Fire Starter and Salems Lot. I know you guys watched Carrie. Loved that one. The other 3 I highly recommend as movies. Christine is probably my favorite 👍👍
Love the channel here in So. Cal USA 🇺🇸 love to all! ❤️👍👍🌹
It’s a really good book they did great adapting it into a movie only big difference is the ending in the book they simply drive past the mist and you know what happens in the film, the best choice they made was changing that ending even Stephan King liked it better than his.
All great ! Christine is the best in my opinion as well.
Love Christine!
@@stephaniemccarthy1676 Amazing :)
@@jesterforhire Me 2!!
_they all gonna die_ never gets old 😂
When I watched this, I felt the same way BJ did. I was pissed. In fact, I feel the same way every time I see this movie, lol. Of course, since this was a King novella, all the troupes had to be in it. That ending was just a shot to the heart. I never checke out the TV show, but I will never forget this depressing movie.
As far as what the Mist is or where it comes from, the theory is that the mist poured out of the gateway that was opened in Shaymore, or that the Mist itself is the opened gateway itself which houses and unleashes all the crestures. Theres another possibility that the mist is whats called the "Todash Darkness," a void-like realm that houses the creatures that King wrote about in his DARK TOWER series.
As always I recommened if you enjoyed this film, watch John Carpenter's "THE FOG," which shares the idea of something hidden in an ominous fog or mist bank.
4 TWD actors INCLUDING Carol (Melissa McBride) but you only recognized Laurie Holden (Andrea)? 🤔 I'm guessing there were cuts. Also...of course Carol would survive! ❤ This.
Its the ending, with Dead Can Dance, Host Of Seraphim song that always gets me.
whats really going to cook youre noodle is that when you realized they were driving away from help the whole time . the army was behind them the entire time , its crazy to think about !
BJ said something that is true, "there's power in numbers," the only problem is that it can work against you too as it does in THE MIST!
Character actor Brian Libby the biker guy was the superman human killer in Chuck Norri's movie Silent Rage (1982). He was a really good actor.
My dear Asia an BJ for this spooky season you please just have to react to (2014) The Babadook and (2022) Barbarian that is of course if you dare. 😧😱
That ending...😱😲🥺 One love from Scotland. 💙
Interesting theorizing. I always imagined that there was a world entirely covered in mist and those creatures lived there and that mist was their atmosphere, and that when they opened a portal the mist started to pour through. Then the creatures sensed food and followed the mist through the portal.
The military then tried to contain the situation, but was unable to stop it from spreading into the town. I assume they eventually closed the portal and by the end were able to dissipate the remaining mist. I also assume the creatures could not survive outside of the mist.
You might want to check out the TV series called "From" it's made by the same people that made "Lost". Its pretty creepy.
Would love for them to react to Lost.
So the military was doing experiments to look into parallel universes. However, the storm ended up hitting the area causing a power surge that caused them to lose containment and resulted in the portal expanding causing the mist and allowing creatures to cross over to our world. After a few days the portal closed again leaving the creatures behind and allowing the mist to slowly disappear.
What i love about this story is that the creatures themselves were just animals trying to survive. yet because people are so panicky and desperate to find a meaning behind everything they cling to the first person who gives them answers that they don't care if the answers are true or not. Normally i dont like "humans were the real monsters all along" stories but this one i do.
The lesson to learn from the ending; never loose hope.
All the people devoured by the creatures would disagree with you. I’m certain they would have preferred a quick death from a bullet.
@@victorclemente-mt4to that has nothing to do with the ending.
@@craignellist7277of course it does, all the horrible deaths they witnessed is why the end happened like it did.
@@victorclemente-mt4to yeah because they lost hope after seeing how futile it was.
@@craignellist7277 exactly, so it was totally understandable. Instead of a tank it could have just easily been creatures who would have torn them apart.
Project Arrowhead was basically trying to create a window to see other dimensions. The storm damaged the experiment site overloading the "window" and turning it into a portal that allowed the mist and the creatures in it to enter our universe.
In the original script of the movie, there was a prologue scene that showed this (with the gateway being inside a tank and then lightning hitting it) and that's when the mist expands through the base and then into the surrounding area.
The ending of this movie feels illegal or something 😆
See this is why you never give up, fight till your last breath
Stephen King is the master at scaring the s**t out of people!
His mind is both terrifying and beautiful 😂
I'm surprised there's any confusion about this. Movie tells you straight up: military experiment opened a doorway to another dimension by mistake, the creatures from it came through, along with their atmosphere (the mist).
The thing that's chilling is...Mrs.Carmody is such a terrifying villain, but...was she wrong? Or a dark prophet. For as soon as the boy was sacrificed...the mist disappeared...
No, I’m pretty sure it was the Army’s flamethrowers that burned off the mist.
It was the flamethrowers. They burnt away the atmosphere that the creatures lived in.