The Mist - re:View

For those that don't care about spoilers, at the end Samuel L Jackson shows up and asks the Mist to join the Avengers.

Just 2 more years till the blob re:view still anxious and eager

"That's coming in 2021... it'll be competing with Avatar 6" Well someone was optimistic.

From Frank Darabont's Wikipedia article: "Darabont was a script doctor for the Steven Spielberg films Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report. In 2002, he penned an early draft of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; while Spielberg reportedly loved it, George Lucas rejected it." Oh, George.

I saw this in theatre and the audience literally cheered when Mrs. Carmody died.

The fact that they actually waited until 2021 to review the blob is fucking amazing

23:35 apparently, the handprint on the window was Sam Witwer's idea. Originally he was just going to be pulled away into the mist and then a beat later blood and gore spray onto the glass. He thought it would be more dramatic and impactful to have it be a human handprint. Which to me is way more in-keeping with the message that the monster is humans killing each other when society falls apart. That bloody handprint, the blood being from a wound THEY gave him, is a visual reminder to all of them that he was a human being, just like them.

The behemoth in the distance is a top 5 movie moment. All the emotional buildup just to drop the floor out from them with this Lovecraftian nightmare… glorious

Stephen King actually prefers the films ending to the one in his short story, saying "Frank wrote a new ending that I loved. It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead."

The feint sound of “Cats in the Cradle” during the montage of Thomas Jane passing off his kid to anyone that’ll take him. Perfection.

Anytime Mike yells "Oh my God!" It will always get a laugh out of me

Almost time for the Blob Re:View, 3 more months till 2021.

No Country for Old Men has a great pharmacy scene.

That ending is pure horror, no jump scare required.

This is honestly one of the best King adaptations. It's atmospheric, not really just terrifying just REALLY GODDAMN UNSETTLING as everyone sadly acts like they would with this situation.

The military experiment opening the dimensional portal that lets the mist and the creatures through means that every problem in the film was man-made.

Hacks, frauds, AIIIIIIIDS, Star Trek, Star Wars, Is this replacing...?-meme... So, now that I got all that out of the way, I just wanna say that re:View is starting to become one of my favorite shows on RLM. Keep up the good work guys!

Something I really loved about the Mist WAS the explanation about what the military was doing and how they accidentally caused it - it gave me Half-Life vibe I couldn't shake.

The ending is perfect. Not every story should be a happy ending, ESPECIALLY in the horror genre for crying out loud!!! Here, it's executed very well. The emotions it stirs, the thoughts it provokes, it just works so well.

2017 me: Man what a movie, but people would never succumb to hysteria in real life 2022 me: people would absolutely succumb like that in real life