What an interesting ending! Don't give it away (to reduce the impact).

Was it overall different enough from "The Fog" to invest time in watching ?

or Storm of The Century?

God, I hate most of the movie adaptations of King's work.

And I wish King would stop repeating himself so much.

Mach said:

well this is a "Best Picture" type award winning writer and director helming the movie (Shawshank Redemption is by Frank Darabont and also originally a Stephen King story - wait the same with The Green Mile)... so it is not a teenage popcorn horror film at all.

It gets intense.

"The Fog" is rubbish! Even the original.

ufoclub said:

cool thanx

Terilicious said:

The story came out in 1983, or at least that's when I read it. I don't think King had put out anything like that at that point. It fired up my imagination, and apperantly many others. 12 years later video game designers for the game "Half Life" took some visual ideas and such from this short story. It was highly impressive to younger creative people! I know I wished it could be quality movie back then...

So now it's out and fairly intensely good.

Yes, most King movies are unwatchable, but the ones that are good are some of the best movies ever made: Carrie, The Shining, Stand by Me, Shawshank Redemption...

I'm afraid of Stephen King!
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Despite the fact that most King movie adaptations are awful, I want to see this. Probably because I liked the story a lot. Which means I'll also probably be horribly disappointed in the movie. Still, I guess it's mainly an excuse to go to the theater since there's rarely a movie out I'm even slightly interested in. I'll see.

ufoclub said:

I'm glad you said that. Because I wasn't in any hurry to see 'The Mist' for that very reason. I thought it was pretty much a 'Fog' knockoff and I didn't like the original one at all.

'The Mist' has been getting very good reviews though.

wlcm2thdwn said:

Only book that ever scared me was a SK book, "Salem´s Lot" and the sorta follow up which woz in some short story book which i cant remember anymore

The casting had me intrigued, but I, too, was wary of a "Fog" knock-off. I read the story years ago, and don't remember much of it.

Maybe I'll see it.

ufoclub said:

Oh yeah I've read The Mist and have actually been waiting for the production of the movie for years. Since then he wrote and had made into a horrible tv movie, "The Storm of the Century." Yes I was referring to the horrible adaptations of his work. All of the films that you listed are the exceptions. "IT" should have been a movie (a couple of movies actually) and I wish "The Talisman" would have been made (by a decent director) as well as The Dark Towere Series, which of course he has no plans (at least not now) to bring to film. Too bad. I've heard nothing but bad reviews of The Mist. I can't bring myself to go see it. I just can't take another King related dissapointment I'm barely making it throught the Prince-ly let downs.
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violator said:

No, no, no, no...The Fog and The Mist are two totally different stories. The Fog has that annoying bitch in it, and it's about pirates.

The Mist is not the same. I enjoyed it, but the ending is and nothing like the story from The Skeleton Crew.

ufoclub said:

I haven't seen The Mist, but I've read some of the source material. This story does seem really, really different from The Fog. More a character study in the face of impending doom -- almost a theological statement -- than a good ol' maritime ghost story. (I really enjoyed the original Fog, by the way!!)

With the exception of Salem's Lot and Carrie, Stephen King horror adaptations do nothing for me, and this whole "two camps in the endtime" theme seems so redundant in his work. I may pass this one up unless I hear more good stuff about it.