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, 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.

[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.