The Mist(2007)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Nov 21, 2007
In the small town of Bridgton, Maine, people become trapped inside a supermarket after a mysterious mist envelops the town.
Release Details
Original Release | Nov 21, 2007 | Wide
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2026-09-06T11:24:44.056Z
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Technical Specifications
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,SDDS,DTS
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Other Details
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Summaries
Plot Summary
- A severe thunderstorm strikes Bridgton, Maine, causing a tree to fall into the lakeside home of artist David Drayton, his wife Stephanie, and their eight-year-old son Billy. While surveying the damage the next morning, they notice a thick mist advancing over the lake. David and Billy leave for the town with their neighbor Brent Norton to buy supplies.From inside the supermarket, they watch police cars speed down the street. A terrified local, Dan Miller, runs into the store and warns of a danger lurking in the mist. As a civil alert siren sounds, store managers Ollie Weeks and Bud Brown close off the supermarket, and the mist envelops the store. One woman leaves to go home to her children.Against David's advice, bagger Norm starts to go outside to fix the store's emergency generator, but he is grabbed by a tentacled creature and dragged into the mist. David and Ollie direct the customers to barricade the storefront windows. Mrs. Carmody, a religious fanatic, begins preaching about an impending Armageddon. Brent disbelieves the dangers of the mist and leaves the store with a small group to seek outside help. His group is attacked by an unseen force and presumably killed.David forms connections with several people in the store, including Amanda Dunfrey and Irene Reppler, two teachers who came into conflict with Carmody over her religious take on the ongoing disaster. Amanda carries a revolver in her purse and gives it to Ollie, who is a former regional shooting champion. As night falls, enormous flying insects, attracted to the lights, swarm to the store windows and are preyed on by pterodactyl-like creatures. One of the predators (Including big locusts) smashes a window, allowing both species inside. In the ensuing panic, two people are killed while another receives fatal burns while attempting to incinerate the insects. Meanwhile, Carmody is miraculously spared from an insect, which convinces her to proselytize more fervently and gain followers among the survivors.A small group led by David goes to the neighboring pharmacy in search of medical supplies but is attacked by giant spiders that kill two men, forcing them to retreat. Carmody, who had opposed the expedition, uses this failure to increase her influence by offering protection from divine wrath to new converts.The next day, following the suicides of two soldiers from the local military base, a third soldier, Jessup, reveals that a government project to discover other dimensions was underway at the base and that scientists accidentally opened a doorway into the creatures' habitat. Angered and vengeful, Carmody's followers offer Jessup as a sacrifice and expel him from the supermarket. Outside, he is immediately devoured by a giant praying mantis-like creature.As David and his group prepare to leave the store the next morning, they are stopped by Carmody. Billy has been chosen by her group to be delivered as the next sacrifice to appease the monsters. As the crowd descends on Amanda and Billy, Ollie shoots and kills Carmody. The traumatized survivors then allow the group to leave. As the group makes its way through the parking lot, Ollie is devoured by the praying-mantis like creature, while two others Myron and Ambrose are killed by the spider-creatures from the pharmacy. Bud runs back to the store and is let inside by the patrons. David, Billy, Dan, Amanda, and Irene reach David's car and leave.Driving through the mist, David finds his home destroyed and Stephanie dead. Devastated, he drives away from town, passing a colossal six-legged beast and eventually running out of gas. With no means of escaping the mist, the adults decide to end their lives. Aiding their suicide, David shoots Billy and the other three survivors with his four remaining bullets before leaving the car to be taken by the creatures. The mist suddenly dissipates, revealing the vanguard of a U.S. Army armored column beginning the process of exterminating the creatures and restoring order. David, seeing that the Army has also rescued survivors, including the woman who left to get to her children, realizes that he killed his son and fellow survivors as they were just moments away from rescue. He drops to his knees, screaming in despair.
Storyline
- The Draytons - David, Steff and their son Billy - live in a small Maine town. One night a ferocious storm hits the area, damaging their house. The storm is accompanied by a strange mist the following morning. David and Billy and their neighbour Brent Norton go into town and find themselves trapped in a grocery store with several other people. There they discover that the mist contains something frightening and intent on killing humans. — grantss Project Arrowhead, a military experiment gone wrong has opened an inter-dimensional rift, setting loose unthinkable creatures in the town of Maine. After a storm rips through Maine, local Hollywood artist David Drayton, (Thomas Jane), his son Billy and their next door neighbor drive into town for supplies, Whilst at the supermarket, shoppers are alerted by the presence of military convoys, emergency vehicles & the towns emergency siren. Shortly after the town is engulfed by a thick mist, it becomes apparent that this is no ordinary fog. Barricaded in the supermarket for days on end, frightened shoppers fight for survival against the horrific creatures that lurk outside, unaware that perhaps the biggest monster is already among them. Based on a Stephen King novel, the director brings to life what King is famous for, with an ending that will leave you mortified. — Kevin Awty Illustrator David Drayton reassures his family after a storm wrecked several trees in the small town in Maine around a lake, one smashing into his home. It's an occasion to set aside the neighborly conflict with nasty lawyer Brent Norton, whom he gives a lift to the town supermarket, taking along doting kid son Billy. They wonder why they pass a military and evacuation convoy, but soon find in the shop that from the mist alien monsters beleaguer them, with tentacles to tear to pieces who it can catch. David and veteran shop clerk Ollie take the lead to improvise defense measures, but Norton refuses for long to believe them and never joins, while Bible-obsessed Mrs. Carmody keeps screaming it's the Apocalypse, developing into a bloodthirsty prophet, calling to sacrifice all 'sinners', especially the military, notably local gentleman private Jessup, after torturing him to admit their garrison guarded a scientific experiment which apparently opened a portal to another dimension. Next waves are winged monsters, the body count keeps rising, especially when David's party attempts to get medication from the neighboring pharmacy, only to find it's become the critters nursery, where human corpses are parasitized, while the shop proves impossible to defend long. Barely getting into a car with a few people, David makes a desperate choice, soon regretted infinitely as the tide seems to turn. — KGF Vissers A violent storm hits a town in Maine, then an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store, among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, possibly caused by a project on a nearby military base. As the world around them turns into a literal Hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster. — thedictator@sbcglobal.net 1 more See all
