Stephen King's The Mist

[graywarrior]

Release date November 21, 2007
Religious fanatics?

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809834165/video/3906309/standardformat/

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I LOVED that story.

Scared the crap out of me. Great, great read.

[hippywife]

2. Is that the one

where all these folks are trapped in a grocery store surrounded by some fog or mist?

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Yes. For the longest time I thought it was called Fog

But then I looked it up on google.

Wasn't that a scary, scary story? I LOVED that entire short story series. Great great stuff.

[hippywife]

8. Yes!

Very scary! The only other one that scared me more was the short story with the teenagers on a raft out on a lake and something big and dark is swimming under it...back and forth. That one scared the bejeezus outta me and grossed me out, too!

[krispos42]

23. And then it starts... (spoiler alert)

sucking them through the cracks













I made it small so the casual scroller won't have it spoiled on their way to other posts! :-)

[hippywife]

25. That's the one!

Makes my skin crawl to even think about it!

Maybe you should take that out of your subject line and replace it with "spoiler alert" for the folks that haven't read it yet. ;)

[krispos42]

27. Done! Good idea n/t

[hippywife]

29. Very considerate of you! Thanx! n/t

[Va Lefty]

28. It has been years since I read that story

I remember that there was a group of people trapped in the grocery store who were in denial about what was happening. King called them "The Flat Earth Society". Kinda of reminds me of some bush bots I know, refusal to accept the truth about the situation that they were in.

[texanwitch]

5. That's the one.

The book is great.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Did you ever read the 'Doorway' story

from that series. About the guy who goes into outer space and returns with eyes on his hands?

The mind of that man is so spooky to me sometimes. I think he is an utter genius.

[texanwitch]

12. Very little scares me but Stephen King's books can.

He makes you feel like your are walking into a really dark room and you have to find the lightswitch.

I picked up some CD's of his newer books at a half price book store, looking forward to listening to them.

[Midlodemocrat]

15. First book I read of his was Salem's Lot.

I was 15. I slept with the lights on and rosary beads on my bed for weeks.

Scared the bejesus right out of me.

[texanwitch]

18. I remember finding another great writer when I was 13, H.P. Lovecraft.

Talk about creepy books.

There I was upstairs reading hearing every funny noise in the old farm house.

It was really dark outside, so dark you can't see your hand in front your face.

Scared myself silly.

[BreweryYardRat]

33. I'm very fond of Lovecraft.

"Pickman's Model," the Herbert West series, and "The Haunter of the Dark" are among my favorites...although "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Dunwich Horror" are good too.

[texanwitch]

34. I found a paperbook by Lovecraft, and just reading it.

I wouldn't walk outside in the dark that summer.

Lovecraft wrote some strange stories.

[lost-in-nj]

3. OMG

How did I miss this??
I didn't even read the book.
Gonna have to go and find it!!

Thanks

:hi:

lost

[graywarrior]

6. Wasn't he the cutest?

[Midlodemocrat]

9. crim_son lives down the street from him!

I would be parking my butt on his doorstep to have him signing all the copies of his books that I have. (and, since I adore his writing, that would be a lot)

[graywarrior]

10. He lives down the street from me in Casey Key

I see him at Publix all the time.

Goddamn hippie

[Midlodemocrat]

11. He is a goddamned hippie. THANK GOD!!!!

[graywarrior]

13. I took this at an anti-war protest last winter and got to hang out with him for awhile

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Have you posted that before? I think I remember it.

Great pic.

[graywarrior]

17. Yes.

It's one of my favorite photos.

[lost-in-nj]

26. ......

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

LOVE HIM!!!!!!
but you know this......

:rofl: :rofl:

lost

[The Straight Story]

16. Awesome, loved that story of his, read it in a horror anthology

One of my favorites (other than the Stand).

[texanwitch]

19. He understands human nature.

I could just see myself in the grocery store.

I have the book on tape somewhere, I need to find it.

[Richard Steele]

20. That's really one of his best works, IMHO.

Glad someone finally filmed it.

[graywarrior]

21. The Mist is included in the book Skeleton Crew

Just in case someone is looking for it

[elshiva]

35. Thanks, hon. I was just about to ask about that!

Thanks again!

[peacefreak]

22. I used to shop at the IGA in Bridgton.

I could just visualize the mist seeping down the parking lot.

[graywarrior]

37. Indeed. That is a great spot for it.

[BarenakedLady]

24. oooOOOOooo

Looks good!

[Downtown Hound]

30. I always knew they'd make a movie out of that one some day

Great story. Read it when I was 13 and couldn't put it down. Finished it at 3:00 A.M. on a school night. I paid for it the next day at school, but it was worth it.

I wonder if the movie will keep the books ambiguous ending?

[Swede]

32. I loved it too.

I hope they follow it closely.

[Aristus]

31. I've got "The Mist" on cassette as a surround-sound, real-time audio play.

It's cool, but a little melodramatic. My favorite audio books of Stephen King are dramatic readings of the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot" and "I Am The Doorway", read by Colin Fox. Incredible and very scary. Also, a terrific bonus of some excellent incidental music. They were published by WaldenTapes over twenty years ago, so I don't know if it's still possible to get them.

[jus_the_facts]

36. Happy Birthday to ME....

.....released on November 21st!!!! :woohoo:

[bridgit]

38. Sure why not, the book was OK if predictable King: small group of manageable people...

in a confined area put upon by an intractable foe, storm, alien, virus, clown, etc; he's always had his monster shouters, wicked priests, and Leland Gaunt' to draw from, so why not a bit of Revelation too