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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today, I'm going to explain a horror,
00:04thriller movie called The Mist. Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.
00:08In Bridgeton, Maine, the artist David, his wife Stephanie and their 8-year-old son Billy
00:13take shelter from a huge thunderstorm, which results in a lot of property damage the next
00:17morning. Surveying around their property, Billy discovers damage that has been done to their
00:22boathouse by their neighbor Brent's tree. While inspecting the boathouse, the family discovers
00:27a mysterious mist hovering over the lake in front of them, which seems to be coming from the
00:31mountain across, yet they didn't give it too much of a thought and continued on. David goes to talk
00:36to his neighbor about trading insurance information, to cover for the repairs on the boathouse.
00:40In that talk he discovers that Brent's car got crushed by another tree during the thunderstorm
00:45and as a favor drives Brent to the town with his son in the backseat. On their way into town,
00:49they drive by a few suspicious military vehicles going the opposite way of them.
00:54After the devastating storm last night, a lot of people went to the supermarket to buy groceries,
00:59amongst them are David, his son and Brent. Suddenly the sound of sirens can be heard,
01:03as military vehicles and police cars rush by the store. An elderly man by the name of Dan Miller,
01:09comes running into the store with a bloody nose, shouting that there is something in the mist and
01:13it took a young man. People thought him to be crazy. Now slowly, but steadily, a mist starts
01:19surrounding the store and a sudden earthquake appears, putting all the people in a panic.
01:23They are reluctant to leave the store after what just happened, but one woman goes on about having
01:27to see her daughters. She left them alone, letting the older one, who is 8 years old,
01:32babysit the younger one. She is worried about them, since the older one sometimes forgets to
01:37check on her sister. Since no one would accept to accompany her, she decides to leave alone and go
01:42into the mist, where she was not seen again. Groups of people started forming, which would
01:47talk about good old times, in an effort to calm down. In search of blankets for his son, David
01:52was told to look for them in the logging dock by the store manager Ollie Weeks. Once he enters the
01:56dock through the backdoor, he discovers a malfunctioning emergency generator creating a lot
02:01of smoke and decides to turn it off. In the silent darkness, David suddenly hears a weird noise coming
02:06from behind the garage door, as if something were pushing against it. When he goes back inside to
02:11tell a group of local men about the noise, they didn't believe him, but rather decided on opening
02:16the door in order to fix the generator. He started arguing with the locals, saying that it is not
02:21safe out there. That upset one of the guys who accused David of looking down on them and believing
02:26they are stupid. Against David's advice, the bagger boy Norm, trying to prove his bravery, opens the
02:31garage door, but is immediately met by a tentacled creature that grabs him by his leg. David and Ollie
02:37try to pull him out of the monster's grip, but fail to do so, resulting in the boy's death.
02:41The others barely manage to drive off the creature and cut off one of its tentacles with an axe
02:46before closing the door. While discussing whether or not they should tell the truth to everyone else
02:50in the store, they realize that it is not as safe inside as they think. Even after telling
02:55the customers about what had just happened in the logging dock, they still wouldn't believe
02:59and just laughed it all off, as if it were a bad joke. Their opinions changed, however, after
03:04showing them proof in the form of the tentacle they managed to cut off. After the store owner
03:09confirmed the existence of a threat, David and Ollie directed the customers to barricade the
03:13storefront windows. Mrs. Carmody, a religious fanatic, begins preaching about an impending
03:18Armageddon and how this is Judgment Day, brought upon them by God, which scares the children in
03:23the store. Annoyed by her arrogance, Amanda Dunfrey, a teacher, steps up and slaps Mrs.
03:29Carmody to stop her from talking further nonsense. In disbelief of the existence of any monsters,
03:34a group of skeptics, led by Brent Norton decide to leave the store in hopes of seeking rescue
03:39outside. David tries to talk some sense into Brent, which ends up making his neighbor even angrier.
03:45Hoping to be able to obtain some weapons, one of the town locals volunteers to go out and try to
03:49retrieve a shotgun from Ambrose's truck. In order to find out how far he will manage to go they
03:54decide to tie a rope around his waist. As the group walks into the mist, the rope starts to
03:59be pulled rapidly for some moments, before it stops completely. With silence and fear filling the
04:04room, David start pulling the rope back inch by inch, already expecting the worst. At one moment,
04:10blood started appearing on the other side of the rope, revealing at its very end merely the lower
04:14part of the biker's body. The whole store gasped in awe, shielding the children's eyes from the
04:19horror they've just witnessed. Now that the people have seen proof, they start taking the threat
04:24seriously. In preparations for the night, some people put up lights all over the store, believing
04:29that the lights might scare the beasts away. Sadly, that trick only ends up attracting the
04:34creepy enormous flying insects. Slamming against the glass enough times, they manage to break the
04:39glass and swarm the store. Everyone starts panicking and running from the creatures, but
04:44some of them did so in vain. One of the wasp-like creatures flew directly into the store clerk
04:48Sally, stinging her in her neck. In the ensuing panic, two people are killed by the insects and
04:53another is burned to death in an attempt to incinerate the creatures. Sally's death left
04:58one particular man grieving, Jessup, who had just admitted his feelings for her a few minutes prior.
05:03Mrs. Carmody perfectly described a scene from the Bible that replicates this exact incident and in
05:08the chaos is miraculously spared from an insect, leading her to proselytize more fervently and gain
05:13followers among the survivors. Meanwhile, the store manager Ollie saves Billy's life by shooting on of
05:19the insects before it could attack him. The next morning, a small group, led by David goes to the
05:24neighboring pharmacy in search of medical supplies and some other survivors, who might have sought
05:29shelter in there. Amanda and others tried to convince him of the danger this idea poses,
05:34and that he could leave his son orphaned, but he believed it to be safe enough to get to the
05:38pharmacy, reminding them of how far the biker got before he was actually killed.
05:42Even Mrs. Carmody advised them against leaving, going off in a monologue of her religious talk,
05:47when she gets hit in the head by a can. It turns out to have been thrown by an ex-teacher Irene
05:51Riepler, who told her to shut her mouth. Going through the mist, they actually quickly got to
05:56the pharmacy. Since it was quiet inside, they believed to be safe. However, inside the pharmacy,
06:02they discover the nest of giant spiders along with a dead group of people led by Brent.
06:07Their bodies were used as hatching ground for a million new spiders. They get attacked by the
06:11giant spiders who killed two men using their burning web to skin and wound their prey.
06:16In an attempt to retreat, Dan gets met by another spider in front of the exit door,
06:20which he brutally stabs using merely a stick. Luckily, the rest of the group get back to safety
06:25inside the store. Mrs. Carmody, who had opposed the expedition, uses this failure to increase
06:30her influence, by offering protection from divine wrath to new converts. Many believers
06:35would start forming circles of prayer, accepting all new joiners. David recalls the unusual last
06:41words of the deceased soldier in the pharmacy, which were I'm sorry, which leads him to believe
06:45that the military has something to do with this catastrophe. In search of the other soldiers that
06:50were locked up in the store with them, they find out that two of the had committed suicide,
06:54probably out of the guilt they felt. When confronted, the third soldier, Jessop,
06:59reveals that a government project to discover other dimensions was underway at the base,
07:03and that scientists may have opened a doorway into a dimension containing the creatures invading the
07:07town. In rage of finding out these news, Mrs. Carmody's followers stab Jessop and offer him
07:12as a sacrifice. They expel him from the supermarket, where he is immediately devoured
07:17by a giant praying mantis-like creature. After experiencing such traumatic scenes,
07:22David's son Billy asks his father to promise him not to let the monsters take him.
07:26The next morning, David and his group, which consists of Amanda, his son Billy,
07:31Ollie, Bud, Irene Riepler, and Dan Miller, prepare to leave the store to seek refuge
07:36from the crazy coven that has formed in the store. While everyone was still asleep,
07:40they try to go for the front door, but are met there by Mrs. Carmody. She claims to be
07:44God's vessel and preaches about God requiring a blood sacrifice to be pleased, portraying
07:49him as a monster. She demands that Billy be delivered as the next sacrifice. In the ruckus,
07:54David was ready to fight her in order to protect his son, however, Ollie guns her down first,
07:59in her rage of insanity. He goes on to threatening her traumatized followers into standing down,
08:04thus allowing the group to escape. Despite his best efforts, he and two others get devoured by
08:09the creatures, while trying to get to David's van. Luckily at least Bud manages to run back
08:14inside the store. Only David, Billy, Amanda, Dan and Irene manage to reach David's car in the end.
08:21In an effort to grab Amanda's pistol from the car hood, David barely escapes a monster's attack,
08:26but manages to get the pistol, which he believed to be of use. They drive off towards David's
08:31house through the mist, where he finds his wife Stephanie already dead and hanging from webs.
08:36Devastated by what he has seen, he decides to drive them all away from the town. Along the way,
08:41they pass by several abandoned cars on the highway and come across a colossal six-legged beast.
08:46After driving for hours, they inevitably run out of gas. With no means of escaping the mist and
08:51terrifying noises approaching their car, David pulls out Amanda's pistol, suggesting with the
08:56look on his face, that they should kill themselves, rather than die a horrible death.
09:00As he counts the bullets left, he realizes they are one bullet short. He decides to spare everyone
09:06else the pain and be the one to stay alive and kill them. Right before shooting his son first,
09:11Billy wakes up with a pistol to his head and a shot is fired. His wish to not be taken by
09:15the monsters had been fulfilled, for better or for worse. David proceeds to shoot the other three
09:21survivors with the remaining bullets before leaving the car, screaming in pain to be taken
09:25by the creatures. While waiting there, all of a sudden, the mist starts to dissipate,
09:30revealing the vanguard of a US Army armored column that is in the process of exterminating
09:34the creatures and restoring order. On one of the trucks, he sees the store people who were rescued
09:39after they had left, including the woman who had left to see her children. In that moment David
09:44realizes that he killed his son and the other survivors for nothing and continues screaming
09:48in agony. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you can watch more videos like
09:54this. Thanks for watching.