The Mist

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Directed by	Frank Darabont
Produced by	Frank Darabont Martin Shafer Liz Glotzer
Written by	Screenplay: Frank Darabont Novella: Stephen King
Starring	Thomas Jane Laurie Holden Nathan Gamble Toby Jones Marcia Gay Harden Frances Sternhagen Andre Braugher
Music by	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Rohn Schmidt
Editing by	Hunter M. Via
Distributed by	Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	North America: November 21, 2007 United Kingdom: July 4, 2008
Running time	125 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million
Gross revenue	$53.1 million

The morning after a violent thunderstorm, commercial artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his wife Stephanie (Kelly Collins Lintz) witness an unusual mist moving towards their lakeside home. More immediately concerned with cleaning up in the aftermath of the storm, David and neighbor Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), along with David’s five-year-old son Billy (Nathan Gamble), go to the local grocery store, which, like the rest of the community, was left without power. While at the store, an increasing amount of police activity in the streets draws the attention of the patrons, culminating with air raid sirens going off and Dan Miller (Jeffrey DeMunn) running to the store with a bloody nose warning of something dangerous in the oncoming mist. Seeing the mist roll over the parking lot and hearing the scream of a man who ventures outside, the store patrons heed Miller’s advice and seal themselves within the store, which is soon shaken by violent tremors. With visibility reduced to near-zero outside and uncertainty surrounding the fate of the man heard screaming before, a siege mentality takes hold. Unable to convince anyone to escort her back home to her children whom she left alone, a mother of two (Melissa McBride) departs into the mist by herself.

As confusion sets in, deeply disturbed religious fanatic Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden) suspects the onset of Armageddon as others search for a different answer. While looking for a blanket in the storeroom for his son, David hears something pushing against the door of the loading dock. Unable to convince local mechanics Myron (David Jensen) and Jim (William Sadler) of what he witnessed, they and bag-boy Norm (Chris Owen) open the loading-bay door in an attempt to repair the ailing generator. A set of otherworldly tentacles lined with claws grip Norm, dragging him away before the loading-bay door is closed again. Now aware of the danger the mist poses to everyone in the store, David and assistant manager Ollie Weeks (Toby Jones) try and fail to convince Norton and other skeptical patrons not to go outside. Tying a clothesline around the waist of a man who agrees to retrieve a shotgun from Cornell (Buck Taylor)’s car, the rest of the store’s patrons are convinced when the man’s severed lower body is dragged back within sight of the store.

The patrons prepare to defend themselves by making torches. New creatures appear from the mist at nightfall; enormous flying insects and pterodactyl-like animals which pluck them off of the store windows, eventually breaking one of them and allowing the creatures in. Two people die in the ensuing attack, leaving another badly burned. During the attack, one of the insects lands on Mrs. Carmody, then flies away instead of delivering a fatal sting. Viewing this as validation of her beliefs, Carmody begins quickly gaining followers among the distraught patrons in the belief that the world is ending and a human sacrifice is needed to save them from the wrath of God

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