David advises everybody to stay inside, although of course there are hotheads who find themselves compelled to go out into the mist for one reason or another. Carmody's agenda is a little shaky, but I think she wants lots of followers, and I wouldn't put the idea of human sacrifice beyond her. Carmody become de facto leaders of two factions within the store: (1) the sane people, who try to work out plans to protect themselves, and (2) the doomsday apocalypse mongers, who see these events as payback for the sinful ways of mankind. Creatures that devour half a man in a single bite.ĭavid and Mrs.

('What do you think those tentacles are attached to?' asks David.) Other things that look like a cross between a praying mantis and a dinosaur. It hammers on windows and doors and is mostly invisible until a shock cut that shows an insect the size of a cat, smacking into the store window. You may not be astonished if I tell you that there is Something Out There in the mist. Carmody ( Marcia Gay Harden), a would-be messianic leader, and the store assistant Ollie ( Toby Jones), who, like all movie characters named Ollie, is below-average height and a nerd. Inside the store, we meet a mixed bag of locals and weekenders, including Brent Norton ( Andre Braugher), the Draytons' litigious neighbor Mrs. They leave mom behind, which may turn out to be a mistake. When the electric power goes out, David Drayton ( Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy ( Nathan Gamble) drive slowly into town to buy emergency supplies at the supermarket. In 'The Mist,' based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. Combine (1) a mysterious threat that attacks a town, and (2) a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror movies, from ' Night of the Living Dead' (1968) to ' 30 Days of Night.' All you have to do is choose a new threat and a new place of refuge, and use typecasting and personality traits so we can tell the characters apart.

The mist 2007