David uses their last four bullets to shoot his son, Amanda, Irene, and Dan but does not have enough bullets to kill himself. The group decides that suicide is a better option than facing the monsters of the mist. After they went to David’s house and found his wife dead, their car runs out of gas. In the film, David, Billy, Amanda, Irene, and Dan reach David’s car and attempt to drive to safety. In the novella, The Mist concludes ambiguously with David, Billy, and Amanda driving off through New England, unsure where (or if) they will find safety. Frank Darabont says his earlier film The Shawshank Redemption(1994) was a story about hope, while The Mist is about “the danger of hopelessness.” Both are Stephen King adaptations. The townspeople trapped in the supermarket turn against each other, and David learns what’s inside (each other) is just as dangerous as what’s outside (literal monsters). The terror gets amped up when a Lovecraftian monster appears and violently captures a grocery store employee who was trying to repair the store’s emergency generator. The store is closed down while a large group of people, including David and Billy, are still inside. When the mist reaches town, residents realize it is sinister. Local artist David Drayton takes his eight-year-old son Billy with him to the supermarket to buy supplies. The film tells the story of a small coastal town in Maine beset by a thick fog the morning after a severe thunderstorm.
The movie is remembered for writer/director Frank Darabont changing King’s ending to a much darker version and for his casting many actors that he hired again when developing and executive-producing the first season of The Walking Dead in 2010. The Mist (2007) is a science-fiction horror movie based on a Stephen King novella.
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