Morgan Spector, Alyssa Sutherland, Gus Birney, Danica Curcic, Okezie Morro, Luke Cosgrove, Darren Pettie, Russell Posner, Dan Butler, Isiah Washington, Jr. and Frances Conroy
June 22nd premiere
So they changed it from giant monsters to psychotropic mist? Could be interesting.
I’m getting a seriously terrible Under the Dome vibe from that trailer.
This reminds me, I loved the Thomas Jane version of this, but I can’t watch that ending ever again. Which bums me out. Maybe I can just watch up until the last 10 minutes!
Fuuuuuuck that movie! That movie is one of the prime examples of why I dislike watching movies lol.
I love that movie. I like the monster stuff. The performances were good. And that ending is one of my top ten favorite finger-to-the-audience movie moments.
Agreed. And the movie was great, btw.
I prefer the monsters, personally.
I think I remember reading that an original, more “hollywood” ending was filmed and on the DVD as a bonus. If that’s true, maybe I should grab a copy of that some time and check it out. I remember just digging the shit out of this, like “best horror film since The Thing” territory, right up until the end, haha. Though as far as trolls go, yeah, it’s one of the very best.
I totally get why they made the changes. Monster effects are expensive and the original story as-is wouldn’t work with long form series TV. An argument can certainly be made that Mrs. Carmody, her followers, and human nature in the novella/movie are the real monsters, but by excising the actual alien monsters, you lose the Lovecraftian feel of The Mist.
The possibility remains that there might be some kind of beastie prowling in the fog to go with the human threats, but knowing Spike budgets, we’ll rarely (if ever) see it.
Another pointless “reimagining” from the creatively-bankrupt fuckwits from Hollywood.
And I loved the 2007’s flick’s ending. Totally a Duramont “!!FUCK YOU!!” to the audience. Audiences need to be told to fuck off every once in a while, and it doesn’t happen enough these days.
The Dawn of the Dead remake did a pretty good job, come to think of it.
The movie’s ending was absolutely a great big middle finger but not in any good way, just in a completely out of left field way. It’s not surprising to me that Darabont went from this to The Walking Dead, misery porn seems to be his calling.
I always wanted to see a stereotypical action movie where the hero makes a key mistake in the first 15 minutes, and is instantly killed, then credits roll.
Seriously.
More of an art project, I guess.
I think the closest you’d get to that is Executive Decision. Steven Seagal’s character is set up as the hero, but gets killed about ten minutes into it, and Kurt Russell has to take over. The concept was spoiled (of course) by the trailers and the movie posters that clearly showed Russell as the main character.
Scream, I think, was the only one similar to that concept that was marketed correctly. All the posters and trailers (at the time) pointed to Drew Barrymore starring in the movie.
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I seem to recall that Deep Blue Sea at least advertised Thomas Jane as a co-headliner if not the headliner, which also killed that “not quite the same but ballpark” twist.
I’m looking forward to that epic film about Norabunga that he’s working on.
As to killing off the purported star of the movie early, HItchcock did it best (and first, as far as I know).
Psycho is a good start, although I’d argue that for the purposes of @wumpus’ scenario, Marion Crane lasts a little too long into the movie. It’s also more of a genre fake-out since Hitchcock was trying to convince the audience that Crane’s peril revolved around the stolen money well into the story. The creep-out factor doesn’t kick in until the dinner scene.
Great point.
To Live and Die in LA blew my mind when I saw that as a young man.
No Country for Old Men also comes to mind as a good example of an unexpected death.