00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today, I'm going to explain a horror, thriller movie called The Mist.
00:05Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.
00:08In Bridgeton, Maine, the artist David, his wife Stephanie and their 8-year-old son Billy take shelter from a huge thunderstorm,
00:15which results in a lot of property damage the next morning.
00:18Surveying around their property, Billy discovers damage that has been done to their boathouse by their neighbor Brent's tree.
00:24While inspecting the boathouse, the family discovers a mysterious mist hovering over the lake in front of them,
00:29which seems to be coming from the mountain across, yet they didn't give it too much of a thought and continued on.
00:35David goes to talk to his neighbor about trading insurance information, to cover for the repairs on the boathouse.
00:40In that talk he discovers that Brent's car got crushed by another tree during the thunderstorm and as a favor drives Brent to the town with his son in the backseat.
00:48On their way into town, they drive by a few suspicious military vehicles going the opposite way of them.
00:54After the devastating storm last night, a lot of people went to the supermarket to buy groceries, amongst them are David, his son and Brent.
01:01Suddenly the sound of sirens can be heard, as military vehicles and police cars rush by the store.
01:07An elderly man by the name of Dan Miller, comes running into the store with a bloody nose, shouting that there is something in the mist and it took a young man.
01:15People thought him to be crazy.
01:16Now slowly, but steadily, a mist starts surrounding the store and a sudden earthquake appears, putting all the people in a panic.
01:23They are reluctant to leave the store after what just happened, but one woman goes on about having to see her daughters.
01:29She left them alone, letting the older one, who is 8 years old, babysit the younger one.
01:34She is worried about them, since the older one sometimes forgets to check on her sister.
01:38Since no one would accept to accompany her, she decides to leave alone and go into the mist, where she was not seen again.
01:44Groups of people started forming, which would talk about good old times, in an effort to calm down.
01:50In search of blankets for his son, David was told to look for them in the logging dock by the store manager Ollie Weeks.
01:56Once he enters the dock through the back door, he discovers a malfunctioning emergency generator creating a lot of smoke and decides to turn it off.
02:03In the silent darkness, David suddenly hears a weird noise coming from behind the garage door, as if something were pushing against it.
02:10When he goes back inside to tell a group of local men about the noise, they didn't believe him, but rather decided on opening the door in order to fix the generator.
02:18He started arguing with the locals, saying that it is not safe out there.
02:22That upset one of the guys who accused David of looking down on them and believing they are stupid.
02:26Against David's advice, the bagger boy Norm, trying to prove his bravery, opens the garage door, but is immediately met by a tentacled creature that grabs him by his leg.
02:36David and Ollie try to pull him out of the monster's grip, but fail to do so, resulting in the boy's death.
02:41The others barely manage to drive off the creature and cut off one of its tentacles with an axe before closing the door.
02:47While discussing whether or not they should tell the truth to everyone else in the store, they realize that it is not as safe inside as they think.
02:54Even after telling the customers about what had just happened in the logging dock, they still wouldn't believe and just laughed it all off, as if it were a bad joke.
03:02Their opinions changed, however, after showing them proof in the form of a tentacle they managed to cut off.
03:08After the store owner confirmed the existence of a threat, David and Ollie directed the customers to barricade the storefront windows.
03:14Mrs. Carmody, a religious fanatic, begins preaching about an impending Armageddon and how this is Judgment Day, brough upon them by God, which scares the children in the store.
03:24Annoyed by her arrogance, Amanda Dunfrey, a teacher, steps up and slaps Mrs. Carmody to stop her from talking further nonsense.
03:32In disbelief of the existence of any monsters, a group of skeptics, led by Brent Norton, decide to leave the store in hopes of seeking rescue outside.
03:39David tries to talk some sense into Brent, which ends up making his neighbor even angrier.
03:45Hoping to be able to obtain some weapons, one of the town locals volunteers to go out and try to retrieve a shotgun from Ambrose's truck.
03:52In order to find out how far he will manage to go they decide to tie a rope around his waist.
03:57As the group walks into the mist, the rope starts to be pulled rapidly for some moments, before it stops completely.
04:02With silence and fear filling the room, David start pulling the rope back inch by inch, already expecting the worst.
04:09At one moment, blood started appearing on the other side of the rope, revealing at its very end merely the lower part of the biker's body.
04:16The whole store gasped in awe, shielding the children's eyes from the horror they've just witnessed.
04:21Now that the people have seen proof, they start taking the threat seriously.
04:25In preparations for the night, some people put up lights all over the store, believing that the lights might scare the beasts away.
04:32Sadly, that trick only ends up attracting the creepy enormous flying insects.
04:36Slamming against the glass enough times, they manage to break the glass and swarm the store.
04:41Everyone starts panicking and running from the creatures, but some of them did so in vain.
04:45One of the wasp-like creatures flew directly into the store clerk Sally, stinging her in her neck.
04:50In the ensuing panic, two people are killed by the insects and another is burned to death in an attempt to incinerate the creatures.
04:57Sally's death left one particular man grieving, Jessup, who had just admitted his feelings for her a few minutes prior.
05:04Mrs. Carmody perfectly described a scene from the Bible that replicates this exact incident and in the chaos is miraculously spared from an insect,
05:11leading her to proselytize more fervently and gain followers among the survivors.
05:15Meanwhile, the store manager Ollie saves Billy's life by shooting on of the insects before it could attack him.
05:21The next morning, a small group, led by David goes to the neighboring pharmacy in search of medical supplies and some other survivors,
05:28who might have sought shelter in there.
05:30Amanda and others tried to convince him of the danger this idea poses, and that he could leave his son orphaned,
05:36but he believed it to be safe enough to get to the pharmacy, reminding them of how far the biker got before he was actually killed.
05:41Even Mrs. Carmody advised them against leaving, going off in a monologue of her religious talk, when she gets hit in the head by a can.
05:49It turns out to have been thrown by an ex-teacher Irene Riepler, who told her to shut her mouth.
05:54Going through the mist, they actually quickly got to the pharmacy.
05:57Since it was quiet inside, they believed to be safe.
06:01However, inside the pharmacy, they discovered the nest of giant spiders along with a dead group of people led by Brent.
06:07Their bodies were used as hatching ground for a million new spiders.
06:10They get attacked by the giant spiders who killed two men using their burning web to skin and wound their prey.
06:16In an attempt to retreat, Dan gets met by another spider in front of the exit door, which he brutally stabs using merely a stick.
06:23Luckily, the rest of the group get back to safety inside the store.
06:27Mrs. Carmody, who had opposed the expedition, uses this failure to increase her influence, by offering protection from divine wrath to new converts.
06:35Many believers would start forming circles of prayer, accepting all new joiners.
06:38David recalls the unusual last words of the deceased soldier in the pharmacy, which were I'm sorry, which leads him to believe that the military has something to do with this catastrophe.
06:48In search of the other soldiers that were locked up in the store with them, they find out that two of the had committed suicide, probably out of the guilt they felt.
06:56When confronted, the third soldier, Jessup, reveals that a government project to discover other dimensions was underway at the base,
07:03and that scientists may have opened a doorway into a dimension containing the creatures invading the town.
07:08In rage of finding out these news, Mrs. Carmody's followers stab Jessup and offer him as a sacrifice.
07:14They expel him from the supermarket, where he is immediately devoured by a giant praying mantis-like creature.
07:20After experiencing such traumatic scenes, David's son Billy asks his father to promise him not to let the monsters take him.
07:25The next morning, David and his group, which consists of Amanda, his son Billy, Ollie, Bud, Irene Riepler, and Dan Miller,
07:34prepare to leave the store to seek refuge from the crazy coven that has formed in the store.
07:38While everyone was still asleep, they try to go for the front door, but are met there, by Mrs. Carmody.
07:44She claims to be God's vessel and preaches about God requiring a blood sacrifice to be pleased, portraying him as a monster.
07:50She demands that Billy be delivered as the next sacrifice.
07:53In the ruckus, David was ready to fight her in order to protect his son, however, Ollie guns her down first, in her rage of insanity.
08:01He goes on to threatening her traumatized followers into standing down, thus allowing the group to escape.
08:06Despite his best efforts, he and two others get devoured by the creatures, while trying to get to David's van.
08:12Luckily at least Bud manages to run back inside the store.
08:16Only David, Billy, Amanda, Dan and Irene manage to reach David's car in the end.
08:21In an effort to grab Amanda's pistol from the car hood, David barely escapes a monster's attack, but manages to get the pistol, which he believed to be of use.
08:30They drive off towards David's house through the mist, where he finds his wife Stephanie already dead and hanging from webs.
08:36Devastated by what he has seen, he decides to drive them all away from the town.
08:40Along the way, they pass by several abandoned cars on the highway and come across a colossal six-legged beast.
08:46After driving for hours, they inevitably run out of gas.
08:50With no means of escaping the mist and terrifying noises approaching their car, David pulls out Amanda's pistol, suggesting with the look on his face, that they should kill themselves, rather than die a horrible death.
09:01As he counts the bullets left, he realizes they are one bullet short.
09:05He decides to spare everyone else the pain and be the one to stay alive and kill them.
09:09Right before shooting his son first, Billy wakes up with a pistol to his head and a shot is fired.
09:13His wish to not be taken by the monsters had been fulfilled, for better or for worst.
09:19David proceeds to shoot the other three survivors with the remaining bullets before leaving the car, screaming in pain to be taken by the creatures.
09:26While waiting there, all of a sudden, the mist starts to dissipate, revealing the vanguard of a U.S. Army armored column that is in the process of exterminating the creatures and restoring order.
09:36On one of the trucks, he sees the store people who were rescued after they had left, including the woman who had left to see her children.
09:42In that moment, David realizes that he killed his son and the other survivors for nothing and continues screaming in agony.
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