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jackbax-94771 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 12:15 AM)
Who was in it? Well Tomas Jane of course, Toby Jones as Ollie and Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs Carmody
This was not some cheap 80's direct-to-video horror flick, but a well shot and written out movie with all the trimmings. This was simply "The Mist" with a different -"WTF that wasn't necessary?"- ending on a VHS cassette
Back in the early to mid 90's "King movies" were pretty popular in the rental ciruit. Titles such as "Thinner, Langoliers, The Stand and some more titles" They were all available on VHS -
speculator-1 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 01:25 AM)
Well, since it couldn't have been them then @Debunkerboy is right, you're confabulating two different movies.
The other one could be an episode of some TV anthology show or something, like @Malley321 said.
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debunkerboy — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 10:17 AM)
Who was in it? Well Tomas Jane of course, Toby Jones as Ollie and Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs Carmody
This was not some cheap 80's direct-to-video horror flick, but a well shot and written out movie with all the trimmings. This was simply "The Mist" with a different -"WTF that wasn't necessary?"- ending on a VHS cassette
Back in the early to mid 90's "King movies" were pretty popular in the rental ciruit. Titles such as "Thinner, Langoliers, The Stand and some more titles" They were all available on VHS
Since this is clearly impossible you must be sub-consciously mixing up the Mist with something else that came before it, perhaps The Fog. The Fog has a very similar name and a similar general premise about a fog coming in off the water which is hiding bad things which will kill you. -
speculator-1 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 05:01 PM)
The FAQ says the story was published in 1980 and the audio version came out in 84. Maybe there was an unauthorized pastiche sometime in the early 1990s under a different title.
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jackbax-94771 — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 01:59 AM)
I'm still diggin' the net for info's Up to now I found zilch. But Your reply might make people scratch the back of their heads, and something might turn up.
You know It's the last few minutes of the movie, where the soldiers appear and the tanks arrive Also my immediate reaction to the DVD on first sight "I know this one already, it was good" made me think. Why would I utter those words at all for a new movie? Give me a reason for saying those words cuz I can't think of one. -
debunkerboy — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 11:21 AM)
There are possible reasons. Those reasons may seem unlikely to you but compared to the alternative one of them must be true.
Darabont wrote the ending in the film. All previous versions of the Mist (book, audio) used King's very different ending. If there is Darabont's version somehow miraculously duplicated in the past and actually released on VHS then Darabont is a thief and not even King knew of it, because he praised Darabont for thinking up the new ending.
How could you have had that thought? The ending was pretty obvious. Lot of people saw it coming. Maybe you just intuited the ending sequence because of the way it was set up. Since you also had this suspicion that you had seen this all before you could easily have assumed your intuition was actually a memory. The brain has all sorts of tricks like that.
It is also possible someone had told you about the end and you just forgot about it until it started to dimly resonate.
Slightly similar thing is that story recently that a lot of people actually remember Sinbad playing the role of Shazzam, but it was Shaq, not Sinbad. They actually have a memory- the brain does construct false memories and they feel like actual memories, virtually indistinguishable. -
therefdotcom — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 11:11 AM)
very well put. i would like to add another remotely related example. many people were 100% sure, that they once have seen a version of the tom hanks movie "big", where after he has become a child again, his adult love interest became a girl again, so that she could be with him.
in reality though, they are mixing it up with the film "14 going on 30" that came out around the same time and had a similar theme. -
Kajohns49 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 06:30 PM)
I know this is an old thread but there is (was?) a video game based on the novella, by Steven King, called "Half Life", which is what this film is based on.
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debunkerboy — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 01:37 PM)
That game was only very loosely inspired by The Mist. Only similarity is that a government facility opens up a portal and strange creatures come through. That's about it. No Drayton, no car in the mist, no grocery store, no military rescue etc.