First Time Watching THE MIST Reaction... I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2023
- Watching THE MIST for the first time!
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To the people saying they don't like the ending: with another ending, it would be a good movie. With this ending, it is a classic.
One of only two films that left me speechless at the end. The other was Gallipoli about 30 years earlier. A totally different film, but with a similar tragic ending that was a razors edge away from a different outcome.
So true. Because that ending was heartwrenchign because the dad did the right thing. He was willign to 'save' his companions in the end, only to realize that he was about to be rescued after he had done what he had done. It's both noble and traumatizing.
Anyone who says they "don't like" the ending are completely missing the point and are absolutely, objectively wrong.
WELL SAID.
Thats the trouble with "Hollywood endings"..the studios get jumpy about box office so they often push for the happier ending. Imho..realistic and non traditional conclusions are the best (most of the time)
Can we all take a moment to appreciate that the ending of this movie literally took Kat offline and rebooted her?
Can we all stop saying “can we all.”
@@HappyHarryHardon No, go away. Thanks.
LOL Barovian this made me LAUGH. Took me offline and rebooted me HAHA. TRUE STATEMENT!!!
@@KatWatchesHorror Kat 404: File not found.
@@Barovian20can't take a joke? Lol 😅🤭
That ending crushes me every single time and the fact that Stephen King didn't write it, but preferred that heart-wrenching, soul crushing ending, is wild to me.
It's arguably the most heartbreaking ending of all time.
And nods to Dale, Andrea, and Carol from TWD! Amazing performances!
Saw this in theaters wow
@@stillwaitingfor99 lucky 🍀
@@Crunchyfrog28 Carol was clearly a badass in this as well
That ending is the biggest kick in the teeth ending of any movie I have ever seen.
I remember the gut punch and how wide eyed I was at the tank emerging from the mist! I also love that King himself liked this ending more than his own in the book!
King wrote the story, but not the ending. He actually liked THIS ending better than his own
I do not. Original ending is best.
@@existenceisrelative what happened in the original ending? did he kill himself?
@@craigime It's a non ending, really - they think they hear something hopeful on the radio and drive off into the mist. There's no resolution or anything like that.
@@craigime They can't get free of the mist, but keep going. And the story we've been reading was something he left behind at one of the places they slept. There's no stupidly simplistic solution that wraps everything up, they just have hope to keep surviving.
To me that's a lot more powerful as an ending than "then the military came through with awesome guns and tanks, and flamethrowered all the monsters away."
@@craigimeIn the ending from the book, they drive until they're low on gas and then stop at a Howard Johnson's to rest. The father also has to figure out how to refuel the car because that would mean going outside to operate the pump. While everyone is asleep, he hears a radio broadcast coming from Hartford, Connecticut, and realizes that civilization is still out there, and that's where the book ends.
The one thing I can actually say is the monsters in this story were the people in store. The creatures outside were displaced and were just doing what they would do in their natural habitat. This though, this woman was a monster on a whole other level!
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." -- Stephen King
The real monsters were the friends we made along the way
paraphrased : some folks are just plain mean and selfish , but to truely become monsters men need god on their side
killing in the name of...
The other monsters in the story are, you know, the monsters.
God I love that ending. The fact that they had the balls to really go there, elevates The Mist from a pretty good horror creature flick into LEGENDARY status.
I genuinely think this film has a very positive message, which is:
If you're at the end and don't think you can go on, and have made a decision, just wait five more minutes.
Yeah. The father that we have watched up to that part in the movie could not murder his son. I don’t believe it, now while there is some or any time left. It felt like I was watching a completely different movie.
@@darkprose I don't think you understood my point.
@@darkprose His son made him promise not to let the monsters get him, no matter what.
This movie, as in others, is about the people than the creatures. It demonstrates how close that society will break down when the tough things happen.
totally... reminds me of lord of the flies but with adults lol
"When the going gets tough, these so called civilized people, their eat each other" - The Joker
George A Romero said his Living Dead movies weren't about zombies, they were about people failing under stress.
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." -- Stephen King
That’s kinda what scared me about “Ghost Ship”; how greed and avarice will cause people to devolve. And being isolated in the middle of the ocean, nobody would ever know what happened.
Frank Darabont directed this and Shawshank Redemption. In a weird way I think they both have similar themes; never give up hope. Shawshank shows what happens when you don’t lose hope, this story shows what happens when you do. The message of both is never give up hope not even until the last second.
AND the Green Mile.
And The Walking Dead, at least in the beginning, Great adaptation from graphic novels/comics!
Notice how Kat said, "It's the Apocalypse. It's the End Days. It's all over the world." Very easy conclusion to leap to given all that this movie showed. Given that, the apparent choice was between quick death by bullet, or slow agonizing death being eaten alive. Wait too long, and choice 1 may become impossible.
@@Lannisenand Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors and The Blob (1988)
I think you may be on to something.
The ending is enough to put anyone in therapy for years
This has one of the top 10 most shocking and saddest endings ever. He basically killed his whole family plus those other people for nothing. The acting in that scene is so good. You can just feel the shock and pain of what he did
For me it's the subtle buildup to that moment that really impresses. Seeing in their faces, all the adults in the car silently coming to the same conclusion, and their looks wordlessly telling David to do it.
I saw this at the theaters when it came out... the ending scene literally made the whole place QUITE.. then you started hearing many people start crying and many other people screaming NO!!!!.. i think that was the BEST ending scene EVER in any movie 🎥 😮😮😮😮😢😢😢😢
*quiet
The Sixth Sense
Best and worst ending ever
So you have only seen one movie, then.
Then they started dancing screaming and doing thug shaker. Sure.
My first time watching this, I was at work, on the night shift, one of the other guards left me the DVD to watch. I was all into it, because I like cosmic horror stories, creature flicks , monsters from other worlds etc. The ending actually made me stand up in that guard building and go "are you f**king kidding me??!!!!", out loud. I watched it again with my cousin and her husband and waited for their reactions at the end and it was hilarious, I almost busted out laughing. My cousin was like "nope, the screenwriters arent seeing heaven for this".
A friend of mine made me watch it to get that ending reaction too. I can safely say I did not disappoint him, lol.
considering it's one of the few stories he wrote that gave a slightly hopeful ending, i was extra shocked by the direction the film took... honestly still love the short story ending better, but obviously the ending for the movie does the job it's supposed to do: wreck you.
@@Jennilynne I to this day, don't know if this ending is a stroke of cinematic brilliance or just the screenwriters slapping the audience in the face with a cheap twist ending.
@@nedzed3663it's brilliance 😉😙
Remember, this is a horror story. It doesn't get much more horrible than that ending.
The older woman who was also in Misery is Frances Sternhagen, and she's one of the best actors most people have sadly never heard of. She narrates the audiobook of "Dolores Claiborne," another Stephen King tale, and it's perfection - not only because she's amazing, but also because the book is entirely the words of the title character as she's explaining her life and why she's done the things she's done. Such an amazing and versatile performer.
Frances is gone now ☹
I didn't realize that was her narrating Dolores Claiborne! I LOVE that audiobook!!
“Just bad weather. Stay inside. Close the blinds. Movie over.” Not Kat legitimately pointing out the BEST decision they could have made in the store.
It was the best decision, but only based on knowing that rescue was coming soon, which they couldn't have.
@@danieldickson8591 yeah I know. It was just funny since she often states plans like that in horror movies and this time she was right.
@@supermoogle07I don't think blinds would've kept the monsters out.
@@supermoogle07 I wasn't talking about the store, what store windows have blinds?
@@jacobsantana915 i wasn’t talking about the store having blinds. Merely pointing out that the only real threat in the store was bugs seeing lights. The hypothetical of staying home with the blinds down would probably be the safest chance.
"This is a cute kid." *LAUGHTER* I'm so sorry, Kat.
This is a movie that demonstrates you can be rational, and make all the "right" and "sensible" decisions, and it still won't necessarily give you a happy ending. Our hero, the every man, is the audience. He's a good leader, he's reasonable, he makes smart decisions... and in the end the mist still got him.
I have a suggestion for another film you might check out. "Frailty" from 2001. I think you'll enjoy it.
I've pitched Frailty a couple of times here, and I'm happy to see another fan and lend my support to your pitch. I think Kat will appreciate it, and it actually pairs well with The Mist.
Or, it tells people to just keep going. You go until you absolutely can't go. And when you think you can't go anymore, wait just a little longer. If you're going to die, you're going to. Don't stop until you actually do.
@@catserver8577 Yeah. Or what I said, which is what Frank Darabont and Stephen King said.
@@OpenMawProductions Stephen King has demonstrated many times that he doesn't understand his own motivations or subplots, much less what impact his plots have on various social commentaries. Frank Darabont, IDK. I don't care. I am saying there are many ways to see it, and there are..
@@catserver8577 You don't care yet you had to argue the point twice.
No. Both of the creatives behind this film have stated what its about. I'm going to go with their interpretation as it is their intent. Even in the original ending, that was still the intent. That's why King PREFERS the change Darabont made, because it makes the entire piece all the more effective. Gets the audience on the leads side right up to the last bullet, and then the other shoe drops.
This whole cast. Amazing. 3 from Walking Dead, 1 from Misery, 1 from Shawshank Redemption/Green Mile/Roswell, 1 from Deep Blue Sea/The Expanse, and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden.
When you think about that the role of Rick Grimes was actually initially written/drawn with Thomas Jane in mind?... 😅
Makes it even extra epic....
Two from Shawshank Redemption -- the guy who played Haywood and the guy who played Floyd (and here got snipped in half by the giant praying mantis monster).
Four from The Walking Dead -- Carol, Dale, Andrea, and Morales
there was supposed to be a third as the guy who played David here was also Darabont's first choice to play Rick Grimes but he had another project that conflicted
Frank Darabont is such a great director think at the end of the day, his casting is what made Walking Dead a success.
Also the cute grocer woman who died from the bug stinger is the main lead in The Man In The High Castle. Love that series.
“The Mist” - the most crushing, gut-wrenching, heart-rending conclusion to any movie, EVER!
Out of every aspect of this reaction, and there were many, I was happiest when you recognized the sheriff's wife from _Misery_ . It was heartwarming, and yes, we love her. 😊
There is a black and white version of this movie that is incredible. I honestly think the black and white somehow makes it scarier and creepier.
Everytime I watch one of your reactions, I have to reassure my lil gal cat, Pesto, that you are okay. She hears you shriek & looks to make sure we are all okay 😂❤
AAAAH. TWO THINGS: 1. I am so sorry for scaring your cat!!! Please give her a gentle pat from me!!! 2. PESTO IS THE CUTEST NAME EVER!!!
@@KatWatchesHorror ♥️
‘’out of ten that religious zealot lady really needed to shut the F* up” - Girl that took me out 😂
The fanatic lady's death was really one of the best occurrence in film history. The catharsis of the scene when Olly double-tapped her with a bullet in her skull was one of the greatest moment in any film. Olly was my instant hero when he did it.
The lady from the beginning being on the back of the truck with her family safe and sound is the ultimate button on the ultimate F#;K You ending.
She really wasn't supposed to make it.
The mist disappeared behind them, too. If they had stayed near town, or at the store, they'd have been saved much much faster.
Imagine if the store crazies were on the truck instead, making faces at him
Honestly, I want to see THAT movie. How did she walk home in the mist? Did she run into anything? Did she kill anything? Was the house okay? The kids lived, clearly, but was anything inside when she got there?
@@ericcornish3773 The actress so impressed Frank Darabont that he changed the ending scene to show she survived.
The ending to this movie has the biggest set of balls you will find. As bleak as the whole thing is that ending just punches you in the gut. Its glorious. This film was made for very little money (18 million) but stands well above many films with much higher ones. Also, it was directed by Frank Darabont who is just a master at adapting horror on a tight budget.
Having the biggest set of balls means nothing if the ending makes no sense, defies logic, and relies on the Deus ex Machina, the laziest writing tool in history.
@@44excalibur Only if you think the army saving the day, is the ending. David Drayton having to live with murdering people he loved for nothing, is the ending. It's not an adventure movie, it's a horror movie.
@@danieldickson8591 It's a horror movie with an ending that makes no sense. Do you know what Deus ex Machina is? It's one of the laziest, worst storytelling mistakes ever, throwing in an ending that resolves everything with no explanation. The ending of the book is better because it is ambiguous and adheres to logic. Guys like you who want to kiss up to Darabont like the ending of the movie.
@@44excalibur The army arriving is not deus ex machina. The whole mist-thing started at the military base, we had military personnel from that very base in the cast. They didn't just appear out of nowhere, they were already in the story. Besides, movies should be stronger than reason. Like Hitchcock said:
“'Why don’t they go to the police?' I’ve always replied, 'They don’t go to the police because it’s dull.'"
- Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock/Truffaut
@@monsterlair Yes, it is a Deus ex Machina. The Arrowhead Project base was ground zero and the mist expanded outwards exponentially from there. So how did the mist just suddenly start disappearing? It was never explained how that happened. And the military just shows up with flamethrowers when there are creatures in the mist the size of office buildings? Stop making excuses for bad filmmaking. And quoting Hitchcock won't help you because Hitchcock's The Birds had a similar ending to Stephen King's book. You didn't see the military just show up and the birds all disappearing.
I always love seeing people react to that ending 😂 my reaction was screaming and crying
I was a MESS the first time I watched this. I needed several tissues and had to wash my face. Maybe I was particularly emotional that day but it just hit me so hard. It's the thought of bearing such unimaginable grief over mercy killing four people (one of whom was your son), only to realize they all could have survived. I would throw up.
@@lilscenechick1995 Your reaction to the ending of this movie is very common. Many people were upset for days after seeing it.
“I hope this guy doesn’t die, I like him. He’s willing to…. you know…. Put it out on the line.”
Then you pause and look at the camera.
Gold Kat, pure gold 😂 I laughed so hard.
The main actress (blonde who he partnered with til the end ) is in another excellent horror movie called Silent Hill. It has one of the strongest female character leads in horror movies. A VERY good watch.
I rather liked the first Silent Hill movie. The second one... Not so much lol
Silent Hill was Radha Mitchell. This is the woman who played Andrea in The Walking Dead, a different actress, but equally great. ❤
@@erinhaury5773Laurie Holden was also in Silent Hill. She played Cybil.
@@erinhaury5773 She played the female cop.
@@Jennilynne Yup…second one was very disappointing. But the first…just so good.
I KNEW it. I've been watching a bunch of your reactions recently and when this popped up in my feed I knew I had to watch it to see your reaction to the ending. This was the first time I've seen you completely speechless for a few minutes. I love the other person that said you were offline and had to be rebooted. It's a lot to go thru. This ending is so good Stephen King himself said he wished he had thought of ending the book this way. It's just brilliant.
I love how you can find the usual stable of Frank Darabont actors littered throughout this film. Cast members from Shawshank, Green Mile, and Walking Dead are everywhere.
I was so waiting on your ending reaction and you didn't disappoint. This movie has such a jaw-dropping ending.
Nothing better than when Kat gets invested in the characters... She may be a touch Empathic... I love it.
Everytime someone raises both hands and cheers when Mrs carmody gets double tapped, an Angel gets its wings.
This is the first King story I ever read and it turned me into a King junkie. 😂
When I first saw this I was blown away at how well Darabont followed the original story....until the end. I was FURIOUS at the different ending! But after a bit I realized my anger was mostly my grief and sadness at the fate of the characters...mostly David having to live with what he'd done and what he'd lost. This ending changed this from a scarey story to a true horror flick.
I have a movie recommendation since you like this : The 1988 version of The Blob. It was co-written by Frank Darabont, this film's director, and also has Jeffery DeMunn. It's really one of the best horror remakes I know of.
I absolutely second this. A very well done monster movie that isn't afraid to throw some serious twists at you.
Another +1 for The Blob. Some of the most creative creature kills I've ever seen in any horror or sci-fi. That drain scene, wow. If you've seen it, you already know.
@Dystopia1111 And with practical effects, too, since this was before CGI was advanced enough. Amazing monster work.
Yes The Blob remake! That deserves a modern day sequel or even a series! Kat will have with that!
Sadly, the 1988 Blob was a fantastic movie, but was released at the same time as other titles with bigger name recognition and advertisements and so it failed financially. Thankfully it lives on after as a classic. I rewatch it every 5 years or so because it is just that good.
It's been a long time since I saw this movie, I had no idea who Frank Darabont was at the time (Director) He went on to work on The Walking Dead, and this movie also includes Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn and Melissa McBride all three of whom had significant roles in The Walking Dead as well.
Sam Witwer (the Private that told us about the window to another world before they "sliced him up" and threw him out to the mist) would later be in the reboot of Battlestar Galactica
The painting he's working on over the credits is an illustration of The Gunslinger from Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER series
That Ending gets me everytime. Crying like a waterfall. Best Stephen King adaption. Btw: This is a lovecraftian, so called cosmic horror movie. Want another? Go see "The Void".
I personally wouldn't rec The Void, I just rewatched it recently & it was as unpleasant as I remember, but not in an entertaining way. I know some will like that, but I don't think it will be fun for Kat!
@@thebadtemperedbrit Yeah, you go ahead and think that. I think it is brilliant cosmic horror and she'll have some entertaining screams while watching. And isn't that what we all like a lot?
That one disturbed me so much. I loved it but it also made me feel more uncomfortable than most horror movies I've watched. I would recommend it as well.
That ending just grabs your heart & CRUSHES it doesn't it?
If it hasn't already been mentioned, the King novella this is based on is very open-ended. They escape the store, they only make it to the David's driveway and can't go any further (due to spider-webs and stuff) so they just assume his wife is dead. They don't run out of gas and they make it to a hotel where they're safe. They hear a faint radio signal giving them a city to go to. So the story ends with them deciding to keep going, with some possible hope.
Frank Darabont realized that when he made this film he had to have an actual ending - he couldn't end the movie that way. In the final pages of the story David mentions that he has 4 (?) bullets left and if worse comes to worse he'll "take care of it" but they are able to keep going as described above. Darabont took that line of dialogue and came up with the ending you see in the film.
Most people get that same idea at the end. "All he had to do was wait a little longer?!" However, the zealots wanted to sacrifice the boy to bring and end to the mist and it ended only after he was killed. So, the ending should make you wonder if that really was necessary for some reason or not. If they had waited, would the rescuers have come? There was no indication, no sound, from all those vehicles and flamethrowers before they just appeared; it was as though they didn't exist until after the killing.
This Mist was filmed in my city of Shreveport, Louisiana. My husband was an extra in it and we got to go to the wrap party and meet everyone.
I’m a huge horror fan and in my opinion, this is one of the all time best. It has an amazing cast, a strong story, fun monsters and the horror and horrible situations of so many different kinds and levels strewn throughout the whole movie. A multi-leveled horror movie, to be sure!
The ending almost made me screaming at the theater while bawling ny eyes out. Fucking hell of a movie
The snippet of Daryl… 😂😂😂 that was perfect.
"Ollie needs a raise"
And he got one.......In the end 🤣
I live for the moments that I see a notification for a new Kat video!! I always have so much fun watching movies with you!
HI SAMANTHA!! THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!! Thank you for letting me know- you made my day!!!Kat:D
"This is going awry." Truer words have never been spoken.
We love to think that WE are civilized because we live in a structured society, but when that structure fails us, when we fall into chaos, we tend to panic and make shortsighted decisions, especially when we lose hope. We fall to superstition, to charismatic personalities spewing ideas so crazy they just might be true, and to self-destruction. We get defensive and paranoid and turn on each other.
I LOVE how well this movie portrays societal breakdown step by step in such a tight, contained story. Brilliant.
One of the few films that align with the Cthulhu mythos that's actually good. The ending is a gut punch, but better than any ambiguous end with no answered questions. There's a black & white version of the film out there, as well. Frank Darabont wanted it to be b&w but the studio said no, but he was able to release it on DVD later. Given the muted color palette of the film due to the mist, it works really well. Great reaction, Kat!
Re-animator, From Beyond and Dagon are best of the Lovecraft movies.
@@0PsychosisMedia0 - Re-Animator I do like, although I guess I was thinking more of the Elder Gods aspect of Lovecraft's work. I feel like I saw From Beyond but don't remember much about it, and haven't seen Dagon so I'll check that out. I've heard good things about The Color Out of Space from a couple of years ago with Nicolas Cage, but haven't seen it yet.
There's also a fan theory that loosely links this movie with the Half-Life franchise, with the theory being that the military base up in the hills where the mist originated from was an affiliate of Black Mesa and contained more of the Xen crystals that Nihilanth could use to open portals.
@jksgameshelf3378 color out of Space is good. And right now Nick Cage is golden on anything he is in. From Beyond was directed by Brian Yuzna. It has the same feel and look of Re-animator. It also stars Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton. Basically, it's almost the same cast and crew of Re-animator. Dagon is good and interesting. But it uses early cgi.
@@0PsychosisMedia0 - Oh, right, that was the one with Barbara Crampton in the black leather dominatrix-ish outfit. Now THAT I remember! 😁 I'll try to check out Color Out of Space sometime soon. Nick is on a pretty great streak lately.
I've seen this film a whole lot and the ending still gets me. They actually had the balls to do that. Pure genius and unexpected.
And stupid.
It was unexpected. In fact, it was utterly uncharacteristic. And you don’t know what “genius” means.
@@darkprose Stupid reply
@@darkprose You do realize that you're telling everyone who liked and admired this movie ending that they're stupid for reacting that way? That's arrogant and insulting.
I like your now established running bit of " 'random concept or noun'. That's the real horror of this movie."
Shrieking Kat is one of my guilty pleasures. I'm not sure how she survived under that rock for so long.
New sub here. I am so excited to be catching this reaction as I’m almost finished binge watching your previous ones. I just love how you inject yourself into the movie and your sense of humor is the greatest! 🙌🏼😄
Loved her review of 'the Shining', the whit and reaction are fantastic.
The mist (and its circus of creatured-cuties) come from The Thinny - a Lovecraftian nightmare space between dimensions from The Dark Tower books, also by King. The poster Thomas Jane was painting at the start was Roland, from the Dark Tower, passing through The Thinny.
"My life for you!" Darabont is such a nerd. 😂
The most devastating ending of any movie. The music is heart wrenching, the situation is so mind numbingly devastating, no movie punches you as viewer in your gut, your heart as The Mist does.
Movie snobs think horror movies are trash but you will not see a more powerful movie about human behaviour in the face of a crisis than this. A masterpiece. A work of genius from the OG novella to Darabonts reworking (the nihilistic ending). Examplary brilliance!
Kat: "oh, is this an alien movie??"
Everyone "well yes, but also no"
The REAL HORROR. We didn't get this reaction sooner! 😂 Loved it!
I feel like I just got the first true reaction from you at the end of the film. There was no laughing. No screaming. No wisecracks. You were immersed completely into the ending of this film like I’ve never seen before. Now THAT’S my favorite reaction from you.
I would love to see more of that side of you more! Big hugs and kisses!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Huh? All of her reactions feel 100% real.
@@darkproseThey aren't. She's creating reactions that her audience will like.
Good movie with an amazing and classic ending. Even she stayed quiet for a few seconds, which speaks for itself.
12:55 "a problem of some magnitude" is the understatement of the year. 😀
I've watched this film a few times, plus a few reactions to it. This is the first one where, at the end, I'm thinking...is that line ("You don't have much faith in humanity, do you?") the most important line in the film? Like, if they'd just held out one more night in the supermarket or 5 more mins in the car, believing that rescue was coming, it would have been very different. But the despair is relatable when you can't envision any help being on its way. So the story wants us to have faith in humanity finding solutions...🤔
That's a really interesting perspective. You're right, the despair isn't hard to understand. And the humanity they'd seen in that supermarket didn't exactly inspire faith. But one more night in there would have probably gotten them killed by a vengeful mob, and five more minutes in the car could have seen them eaten alive by monsters. They made the best decisions they could based on what they knew at the time..
@@danieldickson8591 Very true, they didn't have a choice - no way would they have gone outside if they hadn't felt driven by total despair and fear of being attacked. But maybe SK/the film makers wanted us to apply the idea to our own lives. Or I'm just overthinking here haha.
Ah yes, the most tragic, depresing, unfair ending I've seen in my life. With a strong message thou - never ever give up hope.
The cowboy figure hes painting in the beginning is The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain from Stephen Kings Dark Tower series.
Brilliant ending. You think the creatures in the mist are the horror... until you see the REAL horror is losing hope and giving in to despair.
prophetic
LMAO Kat is hilarious. "Shaddup, now kill her" Well I know I need Kat in my squad if there was an apocalypse.
42:53 I APPRECIATE THIS SUBTLE EDIT SO DAMN MUCH OMG! Very clever!
This ending makes this movie legendary. One of my absolute favorites.
I read this book, but never in a million years saw that ending coming when I saw the movie. King’s book ending is much more ambiguous. This is a soul crushing gut punch.
3 of the actors in this movie were in the first 2 seasons of the series The Walking Dead. Also the stock guy (Ollie), in the apron was great in Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy. The best spy movie ever made.
Additionally, there's Sam Witwer, the soldier, was also the Tank Soldier in the first 2 episodes of TWD. He was meant to be a main character in season 2, which was to flash back to how the world fell apart while Rick was in his coma, but AMC fired Darabont and they went a different direction. And speaking of Darabont regulars, there's also William Sadler who was in The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and this, making that 3 Darabont/King movies he was featured in.
Also, Darabont's first choice for Rick in TWD was Thomas Jane.
Tinker, Tailor, Shepherd's Pie?
@@jackmars931that's why season two was such a drag with them spending half the season looking for Sophia 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Having read the story BEFORE I watched the movie, the ending got me so mad! Not crying, but screaming. Because I thought I knew the ending and by the time the characters left the grocery store, I was like :ok,the worst is behind me, they are all gonna be fine,their futur is unknown but at least...
... And then,well... The ending of the movie happened. One of the few times I actually yelled to a screen...
The Mist... the ultimate cure for a happy mood.
And the first time you see that ending, it tends to linger for a day or two afterwards. Or it did for me...
"I heard creepy religious mumblings...in the dark." Yet another classic one-liner.
Now THAT is how you end a horror movie!
A movie today would have made this a whole franchise- with each new movie being more stale than the last.f
Glad they stuck the landing.
Also, I loooove the spider design with it's creepy human teeth.
Landing was not stuck at all.
It's deeply disturbing to recognize human features on something that's so clearly not human.
@@danieldickson8591 Absolutely! There's a fish with teeth like that too in real life! Google it for nightmare Fuel.
ending a movie in a way to allow a franchise is far from a new thing, this movie is an exception, not a demonstration on how "movies once where made".
Great reaction Kat!! I wish more movies would have these type of endings. Fifteen minutes into a horror movie you can pretty much guess who the “hero” is and who else will survive. Not all movies should have a “happy” ending. It’s refreshing to see a movie ending you didn’t see coming. I’d like to see you react to Saw
sadly due to a lot of folks not liking "bad" or unhappy endings which means less money for the studios they are often far to afraid to do endings like this, there is also fair amount of movies that get an "America ending" release - The Descent is a good example which had its ending cut short for the US release - it would be like cutting The Mists ending to when they drive off from the store and going "yay they got away safely.. the end"
My takeaway: don’t give up. Or don’t give up on hope. The characters gave into despair too quickly, thus, preventing them from being saved. It’s interesting in a movie where the real villain is the religious zealot that indoctrinates people into a false hope, whereas the characters aren’t giving into that radical belief but are more dispositioned to giving up on themselves when they realistically could’ve waited but chose not to prolong what they perceived as their inevitable.
It’s one of the darkest bleakest endings to a movie I’ve seen. And kudos to Frank Darabont for coming up with an ending that surprises even Stephen King!
Kat: "No one's coming to save you unless the mist blows away- and I don't see that."
Chuckles in evil ending.
But it was a reasonable conclusion to come to, given everything we see.
The reason why the large mosquito didn't kill the religious lady, and the reason why her "premonitions" turned out to be true is canon with Stephen King lore where there aren't just good forces at play, but also evil forces. The idea being that something sinister chose to let her live, because this force always picks the outcome resulting in the least good. Of course that's just speculation. Maybe she was just genuinely lucky.
Or that bug could pick up the disease in her & didn't want any of it!! lol
My mom and I LOVE your reaction videos, and this was another amazing one :D For us your reactions are so relatable lol. Thank you for reviewing this, and one that I and obviously several others recommended which was The Babadook. I'll throw in my recommendations from before: The Taking of Deborah Logan, Oculus, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Let the Right One in, and Teeth. Thanks again for being just pure awesomeness!
The tree falling on that car was the real horror of this movie. Excellent reaction Kat. For your next Stephen King, try the original Children of the Corn.
Also if you like foggy horror, John Carpenter's The Fog is an underrated gem. The original, not the remake.
Oh yeh, deffo The Fog (original) the opening scenes are genius & I love all of the characters, perfect Halloween watch.
Also do John Carpenters Prince of Darkness
The Fog is so atmospheric, one of my favourites of Carpenter!
I love the use of the song "Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance in this. It adds the perfect eerie despairing mood to this gut-punch of a movie.
That haunting song at the end of the movie is called The Hosts of Seraphim by the group Dead Can Dance. The singer is Lisa Gerard who also sang on the soundtrack of the movie Gladiator.
How did I forget watching this movie a few years ago!? What a great movie and great reaction as well! The ending is just brutal and it totally shattered me again! Have a nice walk and see you on the next Kat-Day!
I love that ending. So brutal. I only came here for the ending
The actor playing the father also played in Deep Blue Sea. His hair is blonde though!
This movie came out during my teen years and holds a special place in my heart, it’s funny cause now I realize how much walking dead actors are on it lol
So glad you enjoyed this. David's anguished screams still brings tears to my eyes and chills to my spine.
This always reminds me that the role of Rick Grimes was originally written with Thomas Jane in mind..... 😅
The same sort of feeling oozes out of the screen in movies like Hereditary (2018), The Wicker Man (1973) and Rosemary's Baby (1968).
@@HollyWight Requiem For A Dream or We Need To Talk About Kevin.
Also, I would definitely recommend watching Climax at least once, even though I ABSOLUTELY hated the movie. It stuck with me....
Same with The Lighthouse..... But that one is actually even really bad by comparison. Only two characters? Not much you can do ...
Just wanted to suggest "X" and "Pearl" for the channel. These are the first two movies in a trilogy and the third one "Maxxxine" is coming out in the fall.
I love this ending. After everything, it's so heart crushing on a personal level, but ends with this note of hope and victory. It's like a natural tragedy and at the end we see the sun still rises.
I love the ending because it subverts your expectation and leaves you speechless. In the end, that was the true horror.
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite reactors.
Thanks for the content lots of love.
I remember all the way back when I was watching this movie for the first time. I had the exact same reaction. In the end I could not speak. I watched it with my mom and dad and we all just sat there, not able to speak for at least 10 minutes after the end.
Till today one of the best and on the same time most horrific films I have ever seen
Everybody loves this movie except Nikki and Steven Reacts😂😂😂
"Which one are we eating first?" You'll love "Yellowjackets" and the Pit Girl mystery
The painting that he's doing at the beginning is of a character called The Gunslinger from another Stephen King series The Dark Tower.
🖤Kat! Here's my list
Orphan 2009
Orphan: First Kill (prequel) 2022
Rosemary's Baby 1968
The Crow 1994
The Mummy 1999
Psycho 1960
Pet Sematary 1989
The Lost Boys 1987
Basket Case 1982
Let Me In 2010
Pumpkinhead 1988
The People Under the Stairs 1991
Interview with the Vampire 1994
The part in the car , near the end ( around 40:27 in this vid )- where everyone is just silent. Thinking about what it has come to. It is such beautiful film making. It's so still.
The poster he's painting at the beginning with the cowboy and rose and whatnot, is a reference to King's Dark Tower series. A series of books he wrote basically over his entire career, has multiple dimensions, incorporates characters and settings from most of his other books (including himself, and the real life car accident he was in), and is considered his Magnum Opus.
There's a movie, which.... flat out sucks. It condenses 8 books worth of dense material and characters, into an hour and 20 min.
That's always EVERYBODY'S reaction at the end of this movie! I and the audience did it in the movie theater, every RUclipsr, EVERYBODY! Most sad ending in a movie!