The Mist story
The Mist (also known as Stephen King's The Mist) is a 2007 American science- fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella "The Mist" by Stephen King. Synopsis: Members of a small town, who after a severe thunderstorm causes the power to go out the night before, meet in a supermarket to pick up supplies. While they struggle to survive, an unnatural mist envelops the town and conceals vicious, insect-like monsters as extreme tensions rise among the survivors.
18 total · 5 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| father and son | major | The hero of the story David was trapped in a supermarket together with his young son, Billy, as an insect-like monster harboring mist enveloped the town. |
| fear | major | The townspeople hold up in the supermarket were recurringly shown in terror of the insect-like monsters to various degrees. For example, David's young son, Billy, confided in his father that he was afraid; others shrieked in terror while the creatures attacked. |
| human vs. monster | major | The story follows a group of supermarket goers who become besieged by insect-like creatures. |
| monster | major | The story follows a group of supermarket goers who become besieged by insect-like creatures. |
| working together under stress | major | The people hold up in the supermarket wrangled over what to do in the face of a strange insect-like creature harboring mist having enveloped the town. The attorney Brent advocated for skepticism of the existence of the creatures, the religious fanatic Mrs. Carmody tried to convince everyone that the mist was a punishment from God, while David advocated for practical solutions to their life and death problem. |
| art related occupation | minor | David was a painter. He was shown working on a painting at the opening of the story, but nothing much was made of his trade thereafter. |
| choosing whether to kill someone to spare them suffering | minor | In the end, David shot dead his young son, Billy, to spare him the horror of dying horribly at the "hands" of the insect-like creatures. David, however, almost immediately came to regret his decision, as the military came rolling in shortly after he did the deed. |
| coping with excruciating pain | minor | Joey longed to died after suffering horrible burns to most of his body. |
| coping with the death of a lover | minor | Wayne wept over the grotesquely swollen body of the young woman with whom he shared a passionate kiss in the storage room. |
| divine retribution | minor | The religious fanatic Mrs. Carmody was convinced that the insect-like creature harboring mist was sent as a punishment from on high. |