• While there IS a movie called “The Fog”, The Mist is based on a Stephen King story by the same name. He probably didn’t go with fog because of another book being published relatively recently (at the time in 1980) called “The Fog”

      • Mike D@piefed.social
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        13 days ago

        The Mist is a short story from King’s book Skeleton Crew. While I have seen the movie I preferred the written version better.

        I have a poster from this movie in my apartment.

        • Originally it was published in 1980 as part of an anthology, but it was included in his Skeleton Crew collection in '85.

          I do like the book more for the most part, but I 100% agree with King that the movie ending is better. Stephen King has never been as good at endings as he is with the rest of the story.

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            13 days ago

            Originally it was published in 1980 as part of an anthology, but it was included in his Skeleton Crew collection in ’85.

            Thank you!!

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    Because the producers of the film couldn’t afford rendering more that a couple meters away from the camera, they added the fog effect as a workaround. It worked so well that they re wrote the film around that.

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    From the moment the fog starts rolling in you just lose all faith in the movie and its’ producers.