Stephen King ends “The Mist” with David Drayton probably listening to civilization on the radio and telling his son the phrases: “One among them is Hartford, the opposite is hope.” King informed Yahoo! Entertainment in 2017 how he felt about Frank Darabont’s personal radical and miserable imaginative and prescient for the denouement:
“When Frank was occupied with ‘The Mist,’ one of many issues that he insisted on was that it will have some form of an ending, which the story does not have — it simply kind of peters off into nothing, the place these persons are caught within the mist, they usually’re out of gasoline, and the monsters are round, and you do not know what is going on to occur subsequent. When Frank mentioned that he needed to do the ending that he was going to do, I used to be completely down with that.”
Within the movie, Drayton, his son, and different associates escape the grocery store and drive into the ominous mist till they run out of gasoline. Moderately than battle the veiled monsters, they make the despairing determination to finish their lives. The one drawback is they don’t have sufficient bullets for everybody within the automotive.
Darabont’s digicam travels throughout their somber faces in tense close-ups whereas they settle for their grave selection. Subsequent, he cuts to a large shot of the automotive in the course of the mist because the photographs bang out in fast succession. When he returns to the within of the automotive, the sight of the bloodied, useless our bodies behind the traumatized Drayton is totally chilling. Then, in a merciless coincidence, Drayton emerges from the automotive to seek out the mist clearing and navy tanks coming to the rescue.
