Talk:The Mist (novella)

Hartford, Maine
There's a Hartford, maine, you know. Heck of a lot closer then mass. Book could be talking about that. 76.179.164.79 (talk) 07:26, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Connection to Wizard and Glass
The article The Dark Tower (series) cites a connection between "The Mist" and the fourth Dark Tower book, Wizard and Glass, but there's nothing in this or the other articles to support it. Can anyone clarify this? The only connection I could conceive of would be a comparison between the effects of the Mist and the dimensional breaches called "thinnies" that appear in the Dark Tower series--but that, of course, is only speculation on my part, and thus not suitable for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. - Pennyforth 20:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Ug, King has fed all his books and stories to his dark tower series, the "IT" the main villian from The Stand, all sorts of minor players and situations, i cant be the only one who feels like they have been raped of all the decent powerful monsters they grew up reading, no matter how terrible, powerful or old they are sooner or later they "belong" to something in the dark tower. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.83.138 (talk) 09:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Similar to Carpenter's "The Fog"?
Aside from the eponymous atmospheric phenomena, I think it's a stretch to say there's any similarity between "The Mist" and "The Fog". I'm going to remove that element unless someone can make the case for similarities.

Just FYI, there's a late '40s /early 50s radio drama called "The Night the Fog Came". The Mist is very similar, to say the least... 208.100.201.161 15:51, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

"The Night The Fog Came" doesn't sound familiar to me. How similar is it to "The Mist"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.27.49 (talk) 04:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Comparsion and context to comparsion of The Fog and The Mist:
 * - The Mist was written shortly after The Fog (1980) came out.
 * - The Mist was shot shortly after The Fog (2005) was shot.
 * - King in "It" tells through the writer-character he was many times accused by plagarism, only he never got sentenced for it.
 * - In this article many entirely unrelated books and films have links, but all mention of works based on Caprenter's The Fog is eliminated entirely.
 * - Both story focuses on a mysterious fog.
 * - The fog strikes a small town in both/all works.
 * - There is something in the fog.
 * - That thing is killing people.
 * - That thing is many.
 * - There is a religious theme in both works.
 * - The threat is identified by the movie's priest/prophetic figure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AB88:373C:3080:C040:80A0:9736:ED1E (talk) 20:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * - There are no specific important places in either movies.
 * - The leper-background is eliminated in The Mist by changing the source of the fog to generic monsters.
 * - The character-dynamic doesn't matter as it already got changed in the 2005 remake. But all version has a boy who is important to the protagonists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AB88:373C:3080:C040:80A0:9736:ED1E (talk) 20:17, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * - In all version there is a child/children its/their mother begs that somebody should go and save it/them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AB88:373C:3080:C040:80A0:9736:ED1E (talk) 21:26, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

The 6-legged monster
I think the tentacles in the beginning of the movie were attached to the 6-legged monster seen at the end of it. Why? Right after the mist reached the supermarket there was an "earthquake" that could have been caused by this collosal creature squating over the building. At the end of the film One can actually notice some tentacles attached to the giant although they were too short to grab anyting unless the giant would be crouching. Shortly after the "earthquake" the ventilation turned out to be clogged. This might been caused by the monster crouching over the building. Additionally, the cut off tentacle produced some amount of the mist which may suggest that the giant's organism produced all the mist. It was big enough to do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.16.132.162 (talk) 00:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Neat idea. Post it on your blog, then you can cite it in the article. 75.36.180.27 (talk) 18:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I made a mistake. I thought I was commenting the movie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.16.132.162 (talk) 21:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Theories on the movie.
If I am doing anything wrong here I apologize, I have never used anything like this on Wikipedia. I would like to offer up my theories behind some of the movies happenings that remain largely unsaid. --- Project Arrowhead- As the main mystery in the movie, the Mist obviously originated from somewhere. That somewhere being a portal opened into another dimension via a secret military project know to the townspeople as "Project Arrowhead". According to one of the military officers in the movie, Project Arrowhead was designed to allow people in our dimension to view happenings in an alternate dimension. This experiment obviously went arry as the window they opened became a door to that alternate dimension so that all manner of odd creatures was allowed to crawl through it. Now the mist itself is very likely to have originated from the dimension itself as it flowed down from the mountains after a horrific lightning storm (which was most likely due to the tear created between dimensions), which is where the secret military base was constructed. The creatures, as well as the mist, appear to have come from some form of swamp area in the alternate dimension as they all have moist skin and resemble creatures you would assume make a swamp their habitat (the giant preying mantis, the flying insects that look like mosquitos attracted to light as well as the giant winged creatures that eat them that my very well have been some form of bat or other flying predator swamps contain and most obviously spiders).
 * Spoiler Alert*

The odd phobia of windows the creatures display may very well be due to their recent experience in coming to a strange land in which they do not know how to react. When they came through the portal it must have made some impact on them, just as a lion put in a zoo must develop a hesitation towards bars. The creatures view the tear in dimesions as something like a window being broken, they broke it once and they hesitate to break another for fear of something similar happening. This idea is supported throughout the ENTIRE movie, in the first instance we see Norm get pulled through the loading dock door, rather than the creature breaking through the front windows, which would have been infinitely easier and would have resulted in more prey. Then at night when the giant mosquitoes come we can see that the shattering of one of the windows was by no means intentionally done by the creature as they were merely hunting their assumed natural prey, the mosquitoes. Then again, at the very end of the movie we see that the spider attacking the car only charged when the main character was attempting to reach the gun, when the creature realized that he had went somewhere it associated with the tear in dimensions it withdrew. Just after you can see that all the cars (short of the ones overturned), have intact windows and even the bus, with the mummified child has intact windows, the doors must have been opened and the children escorted out of the vehicle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redhorizon75 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Kenmore West, eh? m3atwad1337 (talk) 02:11, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't mean to burst your bubble, but Mr King was veeery clear about the creatures hunting by smell in the book. In other words, if they can't smell it, to them, it isn't there. So the reason it didn't attack anyone through the windows was because the windows kept the smell of the people inside. The tentacle creature killed norm beacuse the open door was, essentially, letting his smell out. Also, your theory cannot be right, as it is near impossible that every creature from the dimension was at the tear when it occurred. More likely, a tear was opened and the creatures wandered through.--65.181.32.174 (talk) 18:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah not to be rude but it sounds like you took the "window" metephor way to litteral. Its kind of stupid to think that it was an actual glass window to another dimension that shattered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.42.210.161 (talk) 16:28, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Inspiration for Half-Life
It's unmentioned. --84.234.60.154 (talk) 15:01, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Feel free to add it if you think it would help. It seems rather insignificant to me. m3atwad1337 (talk) 00:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I wait for Gordon Freeman to pop out of Black Mesa any minute now. And where's the G-man anyways?98.165.6.225 (talk) 21:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Why the hell was the man's nose bleeding?
I have wondered this since I first read the book. No explanation has been given. Also, what happened to him after he entered the store? I'm talking about the "something in the fog took john lee!" guy in the book, if clarification is needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.181.32.174 (talk) 18:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

The nose could have happened any number of ways; for example, when John Lee got snagged, he knocked the guy over and he smashed his nose on the pavement. As for what happened to him, the last the reader hears of him, he's hiding in the manager's office. He was no longer there when Drayton had his "affair", so presumably something non-monstery sent him back out into the store. Hunger would be the obvious choice. He probably went crazy and/or committed suicide. Geoduck (talk) 04:47, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Speculation on the ecology of the 'other dimemsion'
Some speculation on the lifeforms of The Mist, and the parallel 'Earth' they came from, is noted here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=599683

Is this pertinent enough to be worth including or quoting from? Ld80061 (talk) 22:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Publication Date
The Publication date is wrongly noted as 1980, the actual publication date is 1985, as you can check on www.stephenking.com (his official site), it was published as part of the skeleton crew. I have now corrected the error, but if someone were to make this mistake again, then please look it up and correct it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.197.182.56 (talk) 16:50, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * No, it was originally published in 1980 for the "Dark Forces" collection. It was reprinted for Skeleton Crew. Globe199 (talk) 04:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

The store didn't have any bug spray?
In addition bugs that size lived on the earth hundreds of millions of years ago, when oxygen levels were a lot higher. In reality the bugs would have suffocated to death. Also they are in Maine, it gets very cold there at night even in summer. This time of year it hits thirty which would killed off the pterodactyls, the various bugs and the spiders.

Finally no one thinks to turn on a radio, driving along and no one checks any stations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.181.243.46 (talk) 04:20, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Sure is lucky you know all about the survive patterns of a make believe alien species. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.68.87 (talk) 11:35, 6 November 2010 (UTC)