The father, David, and his son Billy leave the mother behind as they journey with their arrogant neighbor to the local market to pick up some supplies. The concept is simple, a family’s lake house is destroyed by a storm. It contains some of the usual King characters and it’s important to remember that these weren’t cliches before King invented them. It’s a quick read that is highly entertaining the whole time.

The Mist is a much shorter novel of his and has been adapted into a film like nearly every one of his books. I suppose there is a reason he’s so popular. Since then, I’ve quite enjoyed the few that I’ve read and will continue to read more. At the insistence of, well everyone, I picked up a random book of his and gave it another try.

I decided then that I didn’t care much for King and didn’t try again for a very long time. When I was way too young to appreciate it I attempted to read The Shining. It also means that David's incredible sacrifice was for naught.I’ve been slowly attempting to see what Stephen King is all about. Moments after he kills his own son, the army arrives and begins to defeat the creatures, taking back the world. David winds up executing everyone, including his son, only to discover a terrible twist. As they drive, they can see that the world is filling with monsters and the decision is reached that it's better to die than to keep fighting. Trapped in a local supermarket with other people from his town, Drayton faces not only the dangerous creatures, but a growing tension among the survivors that threatens to turn neighbor against neighbor.Īt the end of the film - and yes, we are about to get into spoilers - David is in a car with a few other survivors. As a quiet mist rolls into town, it brings with it ever increasing hordes of otherworldly beasts.

The Mist stars Thomas Jane as David Drayton, a father living with his eight-year-old son in a small Maine town that becomes the source of a horrific disturbance in the fabric of reality itself. And it was so anti-Hollywood - anti-everything, really! It was nihilistic. When Frank said that he wanted to do the ending that he was going to do, I was totally down with that. When Frank was interested in The Mist, one of the things that he insisted on was that it would have some kind of an ending, which the story doesn't have - it just sort of peters off into nothing, where these people are stuck in the mist, and they're out of gas, and the monsters are around, and you don't know what's going to happen next.

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