Question about "the Mist"

[Joke Acount]

I just watched the Mist and I got a question.

Where did those creatures from the Mist came from? What's their origin? And do they have any connection to the other series?

[Black Suit]

It mentioned in the film that the military was experimenting with opening a portal to another dimension and I'm assuming that they indeed open a portal, yet something came into our world ..

[Sawney Beane]

I believe they created a portal that led from the S.K dimension to the H.P.Lovecraft universe,and Howard´s creatures swarmed in.Only S.K managed to describe them.

[Moderator]

I just watched the Mist and I got a question.

Where did those creatures from the Mist came from? What's their origin? And do they have any connection to the other series?



See this page (http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/connections.html), specifically the entry for Skeleton Crew.

[kisun]

Hi, if you have read the Dark Tower series than they could possibly be from the todash darkness.

If you haven't, well, I highly suggest you go read them right now.
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[Black Flagg]

Hi, if you have read the Dark Tower series than they could possibly be from the todash darkness.
Yep.
The creatures described in the misty canyon that Blaine the mono passes over in DT III: THE WASTELANDS also sound an awful lot like some of the creatures in THE MIST.

[karend3]

Most likely it is related to the beam and all the different worlds and times that cross it.

[Sweet One]

The MIst short story really seems to demonstrate a nihilistc view of reality, especially the gigantic creature compared to which, a blue whale is no larger than a beached salmon.

The movie really captures that feel--that life itself may have no meaning, and humans are no different than any other form of life. Just listen to soundtrack as they dirve through seemingly endless mist. It is a deep fear that many of us, including King have, although is outlook seems to have brightened somewhat since.

[wickeddreamscapes]

the prim is a world that many writers touch upon...helboy ( the gods he is supposed to release) the outer gates (jim butchers'/ "dresden files") the inbetween worlds (dean koontz "eye of the beholder) the prim (stephen king)..........even the bible speaks of dimensions that we know nothinf of. paralel universes will hold heaven, hell, worlds of magic, worlds of long distant pas and far flung futures........all depend on our decisions here in this key world.

[smooth operator]

This dimension is freaky enough. I can do without one that holds creatures like those in The Mist.

[doowopgirl]

I think the creatures in The Mist were supposed to come from the Arrowhead Project mentioned in the story. Although that is never really proved or explained. This is one of my problems with a lot of SK stories. But hey, enjoy the journey!

[Checkman]

The protaganists can't know what has happened. All they can know is that everything has gone to hell and they're right in the middle of the whole mess. Just like what we would experience or often do when everything goes crazy. It adds to the chaos and fear that they characters are going though. It's interesting that King elected to show us (the readers) Project Blue in The Stand. Because none of the characters ever find out what happened.

[Brett Johnston]

I've got a question about this movie too! What strange dope effect in the mist stopped those people from getting a clue? I actually hoped the monsters would finish more of them off sooner; they were soooo painfully incapable! To think during an interdimensionary eposide a strong healthy bunch of humans couldn't go to ground and hole up with as much armor as they could muster.

If they had torn apart the shelving for its massive amount of metal shielding then dissassembled the remainder as spears then the B team could have had a start!

What fascinated me was that nobody seemed intent to murder those creatures back to the hole they crawled out of. Perhaps if anyone had read stories to their children they might have some clue about combating an unknown superior force but these people looked drugged in the face of being compelled to slaughter.

[JRM]

I got a question, too. Whatever happened to David's neighbor? I know he went out to the mist, but I don't think it was explained what happened to him -- neither the book or the movie.

...Unless I missed it.

[teejay17]

I just watched the Mist and I got a question.

Where did those creatures from the Mist came from? What's their origin? And do they have any connection to the other series?
They come from the same universe(s) where all the other Stephen King stories take place.
The film is also connected to The Dark Tower by way of the painting that the protagonist is painting at the beginning.

[michal]

It mentioned in the film that the military was experimenting with opening a portal to another dimension and I'm assuming that they indeed open a portal, yet something came into our world ..

I'm pretty sure there's something in the book as well - arrowhead experiment going wrong or something like that. Kinda like The Stand I guess.

[sköldpadda]

I think I read somewhere that the mist is sort of like a thinny, which makes me think that they opened a portal into Roland's world.
(Interestingly in the Dark Tower graphic novel The Gunslinger Born, the thinny in the box canyon is shown to have tentacles.)

[Smikes]

I don't think the story is a tie to the Dark Tower. It was written long before King penned The Wastelands or even started thinking about "Todash Darkness". It's just a damn good story.

As far as the creatures' origin, like the zombies in Romero's films, we are never given a definitive answer, but the characters speculate that they came into our world through a hole ripped into another dimension by The Arrowhead Project, an expirimental US government program whose activities were so destructive two of the soldiers from the project commit suicide from guilt.

The movie end was spoiled for me by a friend who was very unhappy with it, so I've never watched the movie. I'm also not a fan of the guy they picked for the lead, so I've kind of avoided it just because of that.

My best memories of The Mist are from listening to the Audiobook version which was very well done in "3D Surround".

Live, love, laugh & be happy,
Smikes

[Smikes]

Okay, follow-up: I have watched the film in its entirety. I found it mostly palatable. Though in HD some of the CG looked a little crappy, I thought the giant, alien spiders and flies were sufficiently creepy. Mrs. Carmody was just annoying enough that I rejoiced a little when she got hers. But THAT ENDING...what a letdown. I would rather it had just ended with them sitting in the car looking scared (which is pretty close to the original story). This was not anywhere close to what Darabount has accomplished with Stephen's other works, and I hope it is not a projection of things to come (i.e. The Long Walk)...I guess you can't bat a thousand every time. Again, it was MOSTLY palatable, but the end pretty much ruined any likability I might have otherwise assigned it— in other words, I would NOT recommend it. Sorry Frank.

Live, love, laugh & be happy,
Smikes

[eaglpaul]

The creatures are supposed to be from Todash Space, and the mist is supposed to be like a Thinny. If you read DT IV it talks about the creatures that take the riders in the in the canyon.

[cloudsover31]

They are from the dark tower series, from the todash darkness. like the moster susahnna and roland encounter while they are fleeing fedic to the bad lands. the worm thingy with the tentacles. it almost kills them, but susahnna realizes that its afraid of the light.

[Theodore]

To me it seems like the same creatures seen in The Wastelands when they are on Blaine the Mono, when you look at the art work you can see some of the creatures look very similar to those in the movie.

[Bryan James]

The U.S. fired up the sister of CERN's Large Hadron Collider while trying to find the ill-named "God Particle."

Instead, they found the Anti-God Particle and tore a hole in the space-time continuum.

Some things on the Other Side wanted a vacation, and they had a brief window of opportunity by which to take one.

~BJS

[Addiction314]

In case no one has already said it, the Mist is a thinny (thin place between worlds). I thought it was cool that some of the monsters did look much like the ones in The Wastelands (as was already mentioned). This was another case of me getting very happy (when thinking of a possible Dark Tower reference, especially after the painting at the beginning) during what I thought was a very bad movie.