King is anti-Christian so he usually has a character that he uses to make fun of their beliefs. He uses stereotypes and biases to make these characters unlikable. You’ll also find that they are usually the villain or someone to laugh at. It’s predictable in his works and his hate for a group of people for their religion makes his books weak.

Who would have tough that a ending where Humanity is saved Could be so tragic. And i Love how this movie portrays hope.

The first Paranormal Activity film, Sinister, Insidious, The Conjuring Pt 2, and The Woman in Black.

The Ritual is on Netflix! It’s a super underrated monster horror film that I highly recommend. It has one of the most unique and terrifying monster designs I’ve seen in a long time in film. Legit looks like it stepped outta Bloodborne.

Oh, man. I doubt everyone will vote for this one, but you really should watch "The Invitation". I'm a big horror movie fan, and even for me, that movie stands apart. It's so good.

Ending is over rated.

@@wellthismachinekills3809 lol, I know plenty of parents who would smack you.

That ending is a sucker punch, I sat there in stunned disbelief in theater the first time I saw it

​@@Ashwgun My parents still do.

Best 2020 memes lol 😂

I have seen this film countless times so I should know every actor in it. Which I did for every actor even the more minor ones like Sam Witwer who plays one of the soldiers and isn't really well known for his live action acting more voice work as he was Maul in Star Wars Clone Wars and Rebels. But for some reason I completely forgot the actor that plays Holt in Brooklyn 99 is in this film.

@@glasius22 That movie so awful, she probably wanted to die.

Don't forget Andrea and Dale was there too..

and her hair never grew a bit. is she immortal?

Not in the comics, she's not. She dies very early and it's Andrea who is the real badass.

People roll their eyes when I say Stephen King is our modern Shakespeare. Not for the poetic writing, per se. But for how he's able to create characters we all know very well. And yes, we humans are the most frightening creatures in his stories. This guy is incredible. Too bad his films don't always live up to the writings.

Same point on The Walking Dead.

@@Codyiscool28 It Can be. But, I've found it's no more dangerous as other institutions. Take politics and academia, for example.

I love the scene in the back room when they are talking about that, something you never really see characters admit to, lol.

@@LA_HA Anything that gives people very strong polarizing beliefs can be dangerous, pretty much.

Not just the cast - Frank Darabont was an Executive Producer (until Season 3), and Greg Nicotero was FX Supervisor.

@@davidscottking Actually Darabont CREATED the Walking Dead TV show and directed the entire first season (only 6 episodes, but still). That's why Season one always feels different from the rest of the seasons and has a bit of a cinematic feel to it.

Fun Fact : Thomas Jane was actually Frank Darabont's first choice to play Rick Grimes in the Walking Dead (Darabont adapted Kirkman's comics and created the TV show and directed all of Season 1's episodes), but scheduling issues with Jane's other movie projects forced him to back out and they went with Andrew Lincoln instead.

@@Cbricklyne really hope Lincoln comes back in s11

Laurie Holden get fked over big time in TWD. Wish Andrea was still around. I love her as an actress.

He said it was bleaker than anything he ever thought of. Man, that's both high praise and a very good reason to have a talk with a therapist....

He's wrong. It's contrived and makes no sense.

King is known for not being to end his stories very well.

How does it end in the book?

@@lizmagu3189 They drive away into points unknown, no closure.

😅😅😅

😂😂 terrible mother she turned out to be haha

It's contrived and makes no sense.

What about the original Night of the Living Dead?

I guess you haven’t seen A Serbian Film.

@@brittyn To be fair, that pretty much describes the film as a whole. The ending was pretty much exactly what you’d expect by that point. XD

@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy Be quiet.

oh my god kids in horror movies are either a burden or the most hated beings in the cosmos

Absolutely. The Babadook would be close to perfect if it wasn't for that kid.

I wanted that kid to disappear so badly

The babadook is super overrated and actually quite terrible. Don't see how many people hype that movie.

The babadook was so good that kid though....God that kid.

First audio book I ever listened to - the sound effects they put in of a walking skyscraper was terrifying

Anyone else first read that as testicles? I was like WHAT?!!! . . . ok just weird me.

@@moshabraf OMG lmao

@@TodLeben 🤣🤣🤣 sorry my man. ✌️

@@moshabraf That was scarier than the movie itself 🤣

I remember someone busting out laughing in the theater when it happened. lol.

I was pissed off. It makes no sense for them to fight to survive so hard, then give up for no reason. The contrivance of the military showing up just in time to hammer you over the head with how tragic it's supposed to be just made it even more insulting.

And I HATED the ending too. It's not how King ended the story. They actually drive on through the "mist" never knowing what's next. King's style is to leave the reader hanging sometimes... Which to me is better. Little bit of a mind fuck. But Hollywood needs an ending, and this one sucked.

@@bethannprather1462 is better than the end of the book

It is so cheap and bad. Too edgy it kinda ruins the whole misterious atmosphere

Same and very well said sir

The ending was genius.

I hated the ending when I saw it in theaters, and still do to this day. In the short story, it ends with ambiguous hope that the characters may end up finding their way out of the mist. By comparison, the movie ending just felt nihilistic and as if it went in the complete opposite direction of the short story, which felt like a tale of the endurance of the human will. I think it's honestly the reason this movie will never truly get the recognition that it probably does deserve. There's a division over the ending, and I sadly rest on the obnoxious side of 'the book was better'.

I thought it was stupid

@@JessLoveyy Yeah I got what they were going for but the execution seemed so abrupt and ridiculous.

Humanity was saved,so that is a Kinda good ending.

Hell yeah. He didn't want custody for this kid anyway. All he had to do, was open a portal to a hellish dimension. Totally worth it - Bachelor life all the way baby^^

Your full on understanding of the ending really changes when you have a kid. It changes from 'man that sucks' to '.... ... ...... ... It's okay man, there's a tree over there; just bend over and run into it head first' Stephen King was impressed with it (was different in the short story), saying it was bleaker than anythin he ever came up with.

Btw, those old folks suddenly sucked after being such good characters all movie. Letting him continue after that: fuck em. At least don't let him take that burden and either be the one pulling the trigger or walk out.

@@arsenelupin9697 oof

You've never come here to America I'm thinking.

I was just thinking...come to America! You'll see hoards of these type of people! Eeeek!

@@Ripley_Ellen Where? Where have you ever seen someone acting like that in real life? And Twitter doesn't count, nor does a mental asylum - though they're basically the same thing anyway.

@ksfhhnfan Again: We're not talking about insane people that basically live on the street. The guy above me implied that this basically happens on an everyday basis and is socially excepted amongst religious folks - not that these are only fringe nutcases.

@@arsenelupin9697 anti-vaxxers? Flat earthers? Vegans? Trump?

Mrs. Carmody got what she deserved.

Ha! Too true. I want to laugh and cry at that.

@@themoviedealers I saw this movie when it came out in theaters, there was literal clapping and cheering when it happened.

sadly a scary amount of people get sucked right into that type of preaching

Honestly! 🤣🤣😅 Far too familiar with that here

A t-shirt with a line drawing of The Legs being dragged by the rope.

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Just look at Twitter... You'll get another example of Mob Mentality...

@@jasperreyes5174 lollllllllllllllll

I found that even scarier than the monsters and the fact everyone started to turn on each other within a few days is crazy.

I agree. King also does it well in (original book) Under The Dome where you put humans in a pressure/horror situation that really breaks their normalcy and then watch the bad come out.

Most of the horror is in the heads of the people jacked up by the religious ramblings of the crazy church lady

She's a terrible character though^^ Crazy church person is a King trope at this point. And he rarely does it well.

And yet. You can watch the movie with the idea that she is proven right again and again. That's part of why the new ending is almost sickening. In the short story she was just a bitchy nutcase. In this there's gonna be loads of people in that store thinking they were PROVEN right, which is somehow far more terrifying

@@ravenlunatic8 That's exactly what I was implying. King has some sort of personal aversion to the church and christianity - which is fine. But if you insert that into almost every single story, without giving those characters any depth whatsoever, it just comes off as laughable. But many people legitimately think that religious folks are like that^^

Except that they all agreed and we're on board for it. Even his son , in a way.

I liked it. King usually has a problem with endings, well at least with the endings of the tv versions of The stand and IT.

Actually King origionally hated the idea of a changed ending, he thought it would be shit. Then admitted he was wrong and said it was better than his when he saw it.

It's contrived, makes no sense, and was done for nothing other than shock value.

I just stuck my middle finger up at the screen after Frank Darabont gave me the middle finger with that ending scene

But the ending to the movie is even more ambiguous because it just raises even more fucking questions...at least the book was pretty consistent with its “the world is fucked” theme. The movie’s ending was just all over the damn place.

But the ending still makes no sense.

I've read, and this could be just gossip, but during test screenings, some audiences laughed and giggled at scenes where Darabont was certain they would be terrified (which actually happened) the gossip part is that Darabont said.."We'll I'll show them, see if they laugh at this ending" ..and added on the morbid ending

@@44excalibur It makes sense? The creatures, however horrifying are just creatures. You can blow them up with guns and the US has a lot of guns.

@Meanie Panini In the book, they were smart enough to stop at a Howard Johnson's rest stop when their car was low on gas and take shelter inside, not just driving until they ran out of gas. The father killing his own son after spending the entire story keeping him safe was reprehensible, especially given the final scene in the book where he tells his son that there's hope after hearing a brief radio transmission from Hartford, Connecticut. And the Deus ex machina ending where the soldiers show up with flamethrowers as the mist simply receded with no explanation at all was just lazy writing.

@@defiante1 The creatures come from an inter-dimensional portal where the mist world originated from. Can guns and flamethrowers cause the mist to recede and an inter dimensional portal to just close by itself, along with all of those creatures? In the book, the characters were smart enough to stop at a Howard Johnson's when they were low on gas and take shelter inside, not just drive around until they ran out of gas, which is suicidal.

Exhibit B: How I Met Your Mother, Exhibit C: Game of Thrones.

I don't mind a good gut punch, just so long as it's good like Shutter Island. Not like that shitty B-movie zombeavers. Seriously don't watch it without a bottle of Tylenol close by. Just remembering that garbage is giving me a headache.

Lol

what happens in the real ending from the book?

@@alxdrksoul Apparently they just drive away and it ends there

@@inspectorjavert9868 thank you :) yeah I guess it's better in the movie xD

@@alxdrksoul They drive and drive, nearly out of fuel, with no end in sigth for thr mist

I agree. I have yet to watch the colour version, just because I love the black and white version so.

It's so much better in B&W. It also helps hide some of the dodgy CGI as well.

Yep I liked the B&W version better

yes, and photographically it makes more sense as they focus more on texture.

Absolutely. B&W is the way to go.

haha, perfect!

Get working on that edit.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I would pay any amount of money for an episode of this in Curb. Larry: "I'm just saying... I'm wearing glasses so I don't see too good for one, then I I I got the weak knee. Tennis knee. So, you know... you might want someone else to go out and look, someone fit. Like Ted Danson here." Everyone: "LAAAAAAAARY!"

Hahaha. I can hear Susie yelling:"Larry, you fuck! WTF did you do?!!" Then cue the music 😛😆

O-H

The movie isn't scary at all, and the ending is insulting.

His score was better than Shaun who said it's a great movie but gave it only 8.3 😂

@@joshmcirish352 I-O

I have always wanted to understand their scoring haha. It seems arbitrary sometimes.

Darabont got them on tWD cuz he likes working with them. And I believe Carol was a placeholder for auditions, working at the casting agency. Then Frank realised she eas actually kinda good at it... And at first she only did it as a favor to him cuz they couldn't find anyone suitable for the role.

Fun fact. Thomas Jane was Frank Darabont’s first choice to play Rick Grimes. I’m not 100 percent familiar how that fell through, no disrespect to Andrew Lincoln but in an alternative universe that would have been a great thing to see.

@@smittyvanbonjohnson It fell through because Thomas Jane (who wanted to take the role) had scheduling issues and conflicts with a couple of movies he was doing at the time.

I miss Dale SO MUCH!!!

@@angellahoulbjerg4307 Me too. Even though I grew to like Carl a great deal, I've never forgiven him for Dale's end.

Completely agree, I can’t imagine anything else for that ending. It’s not sad/melancholy but more sorrow/anguish and deep emotional pain, like a wailing of grief in the singing that fits the drop to your knees emotional devastation happening(it’s called “The Host of Seraphim” by Dead Can Dance for anyone curious). Just utterly drenched and dripping in emotion, it really is hauntingly beautiful. The singer Lisa Gerrard is also known for her excellent work with Hans Zimmer(that’s her distinctive voice singing on his soundtrack/score for the movie “Gladiator”). 🎵😭😌🤧🎶

I watched a few epsiodes. It quickly went from 'different, might be okay' to 'wait, which episodes did I see allready?' to 'nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope'. Can't even remember how far I managed to get.

I was so excited for the series. such possibilities! SO DISAPPOINTED with the result. 😡

Yep, It was unbelievably awful. Such a shame.

@@user-zh4vo1kw1z Absolutely. A total waste of something that could have been incredibly good given the source material.

@@Silver-rx1mh it was impressive how bad they screwed up. They had to put effort into making it that bad

Hahaha accurate! 🤣

New Stephen King novel coming soon! "The Mother of All Karens".

Same reason you're more likely to laugh if someone near you laughs. Empathy is a powerful human trait.

Omg I haven’t seen that movie in years.

Rated just fine, its boring and lazy. I can see a kid liking it

@@mikemath9508 lol I remember being horrified of it as a kid (like, 10 years old) and have never dared go back. I'm sure its not that bad in reality, but I remember vividly being terrified of it.

The better story are the people under the stairs in "The Road". Now there's a happy place.

The Shining being the exception.

@@krashd and The Stand ...and Misery There are more.

Shout out to a fellow New Englander ❤️

And once again, Carol is the only one who survives haha

Frank Darabont who directed this is responsible for the first season of The Walking Dead getting made, he brought his favorite Character actors along for the first season.

@@ghadrackpotato960 well, The Mist was better than the Walking Dead. I was able to get barely into season 6 (to the episode with the supply truck and Jesus) and I stopped watching. Tired of so many DUMB decisions being made by Grimes - it just got repetitive and ridiculous

Several actors from Kings other movies.

@@rileyandmike Darabont got sick of dealing with some of the creative control issues and quit after season 1, hence the stall in season 2 at the farm.

Bad acting, bad effects, one dimensional characters, one of the most contrived and insulting endings to a movie in history.

@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy Insulting? Tell me. How did the movie insult you?

@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy In what way, shape, or form is ANY of this true. The reason the characters can be hateable is because of how real the acting is. We hate some of these people because we have met similar ones before. Also, of course the characters wont be as fleshed out. Its literally only 2 hours long with a lengthy list of important characters. So that's the fault of the medium not the writing. And finally, how the hell is the ending contrived? It was brilliantly done to show the viewer how completely unforgiving the real world is. Its one of the few movie ending that actually seems realistic. In most movies the characters either get a happy or sad ending. This movie gave us both. The main dude got to keep living, but had to shoot four people including his son. Only to have the reason he did it be completely nullified within the next few seconds. Your probably trolling, but I wanted to post this just in case.

Whoa...mind blown...

Ha, I never thought of that.

For me, this movie only worth because of the ending. The rest of the movie, is done and saw so many times in movies of genre. But the end does give the discussion was she right all the long and many could be alive, if they had sacrifice the boy?

Except that those other people were survivors and the military had already been driving back the mist by that point which undercuts this theory.

@@johncampbell756 The entire time they were driving away from safety instead of towards it, that's the tragic irony.

We do its called the deep ocean & yeah fuck what's down there or any other non human world biome .

Ironically, the mist disappears once the boy is dead. So, in a twisted sort of way, Mrs. Carmody was right.

Indeed. There's a serious problem here in the USA-United States of Arrogance!

I’m from the US, and I approve this message.

70 million Americans

@@VanceRatt yep.. probably more

Problem is knowing which half.

@@Adrasdea her journey to recover her kids. Maybe some of it could be about her kids and their experience

It's possible the kids' story waiting would be boring if the windows and doors were closed a d the power was off so no lights or smell to attract creatures. They may not have known about the creatures until later after the mom arrived.

@@pbrsteve5974 my guess is she miraculously made it back home and hid in the basement or something with her kids till the military showed up not much of a movie there though lol

That's a great film

That seems interesting. I've never known that.

it also makes the cgi look a lot more realistic as well

@@joeswallows3254 The cgi actually looks good in this movie, mainly because a lot of it is in the mist so it's easier to blend

@@thelegacyofgaming2928 I agree, the cgi in the colourized version is good. I just think it looks even better in black and white.

huh. thx

Isn’t she amazing. Acting so amazing at making you despise her.

I don't know which movies you've watched so far, but if that character seems well written to you - well, let's just say you have a lot of catching up to do^^

That’s awesome, my Dad and I also share a fondness for this movie as well! :)

The first Season of The Walking Dead (Darabont is the reason that show got made at all) is released in Black and White on BluRay the way he wanted people to see it as well.

@@ghadrackpotato960 Really? I didn't realize that. I'll have to check it out.

I disagree. The ending for the movie made no sense. The end of the novel has them doing the logical thing, which is taking refuge in e Howard Johnson's, not ju driving until they run out of gas.

Stephen King even agrees that the movie ending is better. JAWS is another example of the movie having a much better ending than the book.

I hated the ending. when the director had it end this way, Stephen King liked it better than his own ending. I hated it. the dad spends all movie to protect his little boy, then ends up doing a "mercy kill" for their small group, leaving no bullet for himself.... just seconds before they would have been rescued by the military rolling up. I hated it.

@@kingscorpion7346 Ok you hate it, but you didn't explain why, you just described what happens. I don't "like" that ending; but I respect and admire it. It's brave, it's gut-wrenching, it's a perfect horror movie denouement.

@@kingscorpion7346 I won’t watch it again because of that ending , too tragic, can't do it.

And Colorado.

They have already watched The Thing, so he must have decided that this movie affected him more than that one (which is quite an accomplishment)

@@otnat2094 which is absurd on a critical level as a film or fear inducing. This isn't even that good a film full of poorly done 00s cgi. The sheer amount of classics they have given 7s but THIS is an 8? It's subjective, yes. Doesn't make it any less ludicrous and why I hate scores. Especially when so dramatically off. This places this movie...THIS...over some of the greatest films or horrors of all time. It's madness. With all due respect. Seriously, this is meant to be banter and not attacking. I'm just always clicking off before score because it always, without fail, pisses me off. ...I lead a sad life. Lol

@@booty2k Oh believe me I understand. That's why I left my other comment asking them about how they determine their scoring. The scores that they've given movies just don't make any sense to me.

I would pick the Latter just because i am not a father