{"id":214995,"date":"2021-03-30T23:16:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-hidden-monsters-of-the-mist\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T23:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:16:36","slug":"the-hidden-monsters-of-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-hidden-monsters-of-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Hidden Monsters of The Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Hidden Monsters of The Mist<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conventional movie monster is a frightening, ravenous, carnivorous beast that devours anything \u2014 and everything \u2014 in its path. It might have tentacles, or it might drip with putrid slime. It might be thunderous and fast as lightning, or it might creep up on you without a sound and whisk you away into the darkness. One thing is for sure, though: a good movie monster will epitomize your every harrowing fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such is the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal of\u00a0<strong>Frank Darabont<\/strong>\u2019s <\/span><strong><i>The <\/i><i>Mist<\/i> <\/strong>(2007)<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is adapted from Stephen King\u2019s novella of the same name.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie deals with horrifying creatures: giant squealing locusts, towering six-legged beasts, you name it. Essentially, any monster that might inspire a scream of terror makes an appearance. But even more horrifying <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are the monsters we don\u2019t see \u2014 the things lurking just out of sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tells the story of a family whose small town is assailed by a mysterious mist. David (<strong>Thomas Jane<\/strong>) and his son Billy (<strong>Nathan Gamble<\/strong>) take shelter in their local supermarket and wait for the phenomenon to pass. But everything changes when a frightened and disheveled local man runs into the store claiming that there is also a horrible beast lurking within the mist that took one of his friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For much of the first act of the movie,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the monsters are unseen. Some people refuse to believe there is anything out there, while others allow their imaginations to run away with them as they concoct the most violent creatures that might await them just beyond the sliding doors.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mist itself is physically and theoretically something of a blank canvas, so it makes sense that characters find a way to project their deepest darkest fears onto it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364481\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-mist-2007-inside-the-store.jpg\" alt=\"The Mist Inside The Store\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-mist-2007-inside-the-store.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-mist-2007-inside-the-store-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fear of the unknown metamorphosing into one\u2019s worst nightmares is not an uncommon theme for Stephen King\u2019s stories. In his novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Pennywise the clown feeds off of people\u2019s fears and transforms accordingly to represent them. For one child, he is a werewolf. For another, he is a pool of blood in a sink. And for one boy, Pennywise becomes his father. But there is a reason that the characters <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refer to Pennywise as \u201cIt\u201d: he is not \u201creal\u201d in any conventional sense but is rather an entity that manifests as whatever haunts his victims the most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same thing can be said about the monsters in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, albeit in a less obvious way. The monsters start off unseen, allowing people to fester in their own fears and imagine the worst. One character, in particular, Mrs. Carmody (<strong>Marcia Gay Harden<\/strong>), imagines that the mist is God\u2019s way of exacting vengeance on the sinners of the town. It reminds her of the great Christian unknown. She preaches to the people in the supermarket that God is slated to put forth a plague on their town, just as he did in Egypt. And this prophecy sort of ends up coming true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plagues that God sent down in the Old Testament represent his commitment to teaching Egyptians a lesson on justice. According to the biblical text, when he delivered his wrath, God turned water to blood, sent down storms of frogs, lice, and flies, afflicted the livestock with pestilence, burdened the people with festering boils, delivered hailstorms, locusts, and darkness, and killed firstborn children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A number of these punishments are realized in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Blood is shed in massive quantities when a grocery bagger attempts to leave the store. Then, giant, vicious locusts appear at the windows and bore their way inside. The darkness prophecy is also fulfilled, as the monsters only come at night. Most troubling of all, though, is the death of the firstborn child: David shoots his own son to save him from the rapacious monsters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it is fear itself, rather than the monsters, that causes many of the characters in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to meet their bitter end. As far as Mrs. Carmody is concerned, she decides to turn her devotion to God into a fearful, rather than joyous, experience. Another character points out that Carmody\u2019s version of God is different from his own. Hers is a vicious beast who calls for flesh sacrifices, while his God is loving and patient. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs. Carmody manages to convince a number of the supermarket dwellers to believe her preachings. Most of the people hiding from the mist are fearful, and she manages to give that fear a digestible form. What\u2019s more, some of those who are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> afraid wind up surviving, which suggests that monsters may not have been lurking in the ether at all. When the mist begins to descend, a woman announces that she\u2019s going to brave the unknown to go be with her children. People try to urge her not to leave, but she\u2019s already made up her mind. At the end of the film, David sees her with her children, alive and intact. Perhaps she never had to face the demons because she did not fear them. Perhaps there never were demons \u2014 not outside of people\u2019s heads, anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> concludes with a confirmation that the whole thing was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fear feeds fear, and so making it out of the mist is near impossible. David kills his son and his friends because none of them can bear what lies beyond, only for David to discover that help was not far away. Ultimately, fear is the most menacing hidden killer: it is more terrifying and lethal than any oozing monster could possibly be.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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