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[edit] Connection to Wizard and Glass

The article The Dark Tower (series) cites a connection between "The Mist" and the fourth Dark Tower book, Wizard and Glass, but there's nothing in this or the other articles to support it. Can anyone clarify this? The only connection I could conceive of would be a comparison between the effects of the Mist and the dimensional breaches called "thinnies" that appear in the Dark Tower series--but that, of course, is only speculation on my part, and thus not suitable for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. - Pennyforth 20:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


Ug, King has fed all his books and stories to his dark tower series, the "IT" the main villian from The Stand, all sorts of minor players and situations, i cant be the only one who feels like they have been raped of all the decent powerful monsters they grew up reading, no matter how terrible, powerful or old they are sooner or later they "belong" to something in the dark tower. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.83.138 (talk) 09:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Similar to Carpenter's "The Fog"?

Aside from the eponymous atmospheric phenomena, I think it's a stretch to say there's any similarity between "The Mist" and "The Fog". I'm going to remove that element unless someone can make the case for similarities.


Just FYI, there's a late '40s /early 50s radio drama called "The Night the Fog Came". The Mist is very similar, to say the least... 208.100.201.161 15:51, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

"The Night The Fog Came" doesn't sound familiar to me. How similar is it to "The Mist"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.27.49 (talk) 04:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The 6-legged monster

I think the tentacles in the beginning of the movie were attached to the 6-legged monster seen at the end of it. Why? Right after the mist reached the supermarket there was an "earthquake" that could have been caused by this collosal creature squating over the building. At the end of the film One can actually notice some tentacles attached to the giant although they were too short to grab anyting unless the giant would be crouching. Shortly after the "earthquake" the ventilation turned out to be clogged. This might been caused by the monster crouching over the building. Additionally, the cut off tentacle produced some amount of the mist which may suggest that the giant's organism produced all the mist. It was big enough to do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.16.132.162 (talk) 00:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Neat idea. Post it on your blog, then you can cite it in the article. 75.36.180.27 (talk) 18:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I made a mistake. I thought I was commenting the movie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.16.132.162 (talk) 21:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Theories on the movie.

If I am doing anything wrong here I apologize, I have never used anything like this on Wikipedia. I would like to offer up my theories behind some of the movies happenings that remain largely unsaid.

  • Spoiler Alert*

Project Arrowhead- As the main mystery in the movie, the Mist obviously originated from somewhere. That somewhere being a portal opened into another dimension via a secret military project know to the townspeople as "Project Arrowhead". According to one of the military officers in the movie, Project Arrowhead was designed to allow people in our dimension to view happenings in an alternate dimension. This experiment obviously went arry as the window they opened became a door to that alternate dimension so that all manner of odd creatures was allowed to crawl through it. Now the mist itself is very likely to have originated from the dimension itself as it flowed down from the mountains after a horrific lightning storm (which was most likely due to the tear created between dimensions), which is where the secret military base was constructed. The creatures, as well as the mist, appear to have come from some form of swamp area in the alternate dimension as they all have moist skin and resemble creatures you would assume make a swamp their habitat (the giant preying mantis, the flying insects that look like mosquitos attracted to light as well as the giant winged creatures that eat them that my very well have been some form of bat or other flying predator swamps contain and most obviously spiders).

The odd phobia of windows the creatures display may very well be due to their recent experience in coming to a strange land in which they do not know how to react. When they came through the portal it must have made some impact on them, just as a lion put in a zoo must develop a hesitation towards bars. The creatures view the tear in dimesions as something like a window being broken, they broke it once and they hesitate to break another for fear of something similar happening. This idea is supported throughout the ENTIRE movie, in the first instance we see Norm get pulled through the loading dock door, rather than the creature breaking through the front windows, which would have been infinitely easier and would have resulted in more prey. Then at night when the giant mosquitoes come we can see that the shattering of one of the windows was by no means intentionally done by the creature as they were merely hunting their assumed natural prey, the mosquitoes. Then again, at the very end of the movie we see that the spider attacking the car only charged when the main character was attempting to reach the gun, when the creature realized that he had went somewhere it associated with the tear in dimensions it withdrew. Just after you can see that all the cars (short of the ones overturned), have intact windows and even the bus, with the mummified child has intact windows, the doors must have been opened and the children escorted out of the vehicle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redhorizon75 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Kenmore West, eh? m3atwad1337 (talk) 02:11, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Don't mean to burst your bubble, but Mr King was veeery clear about the creatures hunting by smell in the book. In other words, if they can't smell it, to them, it isn't there. So the reason it didn't attack anyone through the windows was because the windows kept the smell of the people inside. The tentacle creature killed norm beacuse the open door was, essentially, letting his smell out. Also, your theory cannot be right, as it is near impossible that every creature from the dimension was at the tear when it occurred. More likely, a tear was opened and the creatures wandered through.--65.181.32.174 (talk) 18:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inspiration for Half-Life

It's unmentioned. --84.234.60.154 (talk) 15:01, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to add it if you think it would help. It seems rather insignificant to me. m3atwad1337 (talk) 00:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I wait for Gordon Freeman to pop out of Black Mesa any minute now. And where's the G-man anyways?98.165.6.225 (talk) 21:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why the hell was the man's nose bleeding?

I have wondered this since I first read the book. No explanation has been given. Also, what happened to him after he entered the store? I'm talking about the "something in the fog took john lee!" guy in the book, if clarification is needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.181.32.174 (talk) 18:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)