As Darabont himself says “The story is less about the monsters outside than about the monsters inside, the people you’re stuck with, your friends and neighbours breaking under the strain.” Slowly but surely each character either dies, gives up or snaps. In extreme situations people will latch onto whatever comfort they can, be it religion or rationality. Its characters are not all relatable, but they are at least understandable. The run-of-the-mill dialogue at the beginning of the film sets a tone of small town comforts and blandness that Darabont quickly upends. David Drayton (Thomas Jane) is trapped in the supermarket and struggles to survive the onslaught of monsters as well as the machinations of religious zealot Mrs Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden) and her rapidly growing band of followers.
Set mostly in a supermarket after a severe thunderstorm cuts the power and ushers in a thick, otherworldly mist Frank Darabont’s film adaptation gives new life to the mind-bending creatures rarely described in King’s novella. The Mist combines King’s talent for suspense with Lovecraft’s nightmarish creatures. From Pennywise the Dancing Clown from IT to Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror it’s no wonder that New England, to me at least, is synonymous with monsters, madness and the macabre. Lovecraft and even the home of Irish writer John Connelly’s disturbed detective Charlie Parker the New England countryside and urban areas are home to monsters that exist deep within and without the human psyche. The setting of many of Stephen King’s most famous works as well as those of H. The New England area is supposedly one of the most beautiful parts of the United States and I never want to go there.
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