What is the movie The Mist about?

Answer 1

Based on the Stephen King novella (published in Skeleton Crew, a collection of his short stories), The Mist is about creatures from another dimension that cross over into our dimension because of top-secret U.S. military experiments.

The day after a colossal summer thunderstorm hits their Maine town, the main character, David Drayton, his son, Billy, and their neighbor, Brent Norton, go to the supermarket.

While they are waiting on line to pay for their groceries, a mysterious and very thick mist rolls up the street and soon surrounds the supermarket. Then one of the townspeople bursts in, screaming about how, "Something in the fog took John Lee! Something in the fog took John Lee and I heard him screaming!"

At first, nobody believes him, but they soon find out that there are very dangerous, horrifying creatures in the mist.

Most of the movie takes place inside the supermarket, where the main character and his young son find themselves trapped, along with about four or five dozen of the town's other year-long residents and summer people.

Since most of the story takes place inside a supermarket filled with very frightened people, the movie is as much about group-think (the collective mind of a crowd) and the mob mentality as it is about monsters from another dimension. We soon find out that, under such stressful conditions, some of the people in the supermarket become just as dangerous and horrible as the creatures in the mist.

Answer 2

WELL.... it depends if someone is STUPID enough to make it happen!