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- 0:59Speaker 2: Hello and welcome back to the show. We are continuing
- 1:05Speaker 2: the 2026 Route 666 Halloween Extravaganza. And you all were
- 1:14Speaker 2: so excited about the movie breakdown I did with JJ
- 1:19Speaker 2: Vance over on Operation GCD. I decided maybe I should
- 1:25Speaker 2: break down another movie that I watched. Pretty much every October.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Part of the Halloween lineup. It's a Stephen King. Kind
- 1:36Speaker 2: of like all Stephen Kings. The director had his way
- 1:40Speaker 2: with it a little bit. But it sticks pretty true
- 1:44Speaker 2: to the novella. By Stephen King. And I'm going to
- 1:49Speaker 2: tackle this beast quite literally. All on my own.
- 1:55Speaker 1: So....
- 1:56Speaker 2: Fingers crossed this goes well because I think there's a
- 2:00Speaker 2: lot of hidden symbolism in this little gem. It's called
- 2:04Speaker 2: the mist.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Now listen everybody, we are experiencing some kind of disaster.
- 2:15Speaker 2: No, it's the end of days. Oh my god.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Something in the mist!
- 2:21Speaker 2: Shut the doors!
- 2:22Speaker 1: Shut the doors! Shut the doors!
- 2:28Speaker 3: I don't know whether it's man-made or natural, but I
- 2:30Speaker 3: do know that it's definitely not supernatural.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Nobody else heard that sound?
- 2:44Speaker 3: What sound?
- 2:45Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Like something was like pressing against the door.
- 2:50Speaker 3: But the only way we're going to help ourselves is
- 2:52Speaker 3: to seek rescue. We're going out.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Tie this around your waist.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I'm four.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Let us know you got at least 300.
- 2:59Speaker 3: There's nothing out there. Nothing in the mist. If you're wrong...
- 3:06Speaker 3: Then I guess.
- 3:09Speaker 2: that joke would be on me. It is time to
- 3:24Speaker 2: take sides.
- 3:25Speaker 3: The saved and the damned.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Read the good book. It calls for blood.
- 3:30Speaker 3: I think something got in. Guys, I hear something.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Don't you know the truth? We are being punished.
- 3:44Speaker 1: You try it.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Who knows how far this mist has spread.
- 3:50Speaker 3: It could be the whole world for all we know.
- 3:51Speaker 3: It wouldn't make us any less dead.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Daddy, don't go.
- 3:54Speaker 2: If something happens, cut and run. You can't go out.
- 3:59Speaker 3: I won't allow it. Won't allow it?
- 4:01Speaker 2: It was them!
- 4:07Speaker 1: Brung down the final wrath upon us!
- 4:09Speaker 2: We want the boy!
- 4:11Speaker 3: That's what brung down the wrath of God!
- 4:28Speaker 2: Came out in 2007. It's a horror sci-fi movie. And
- 4:34Speaker 2: my mom and I saw it at the theater, I think, twice. And,
- 4:43Speaker 2: you know, at the time I was a kid and
- 4:45Speaker 2: I thought it was really scary. I thought it was horrifying, actually,
- 4:48Speaker 2: and I still think it's horrifying. But it comes from
- 4:53Speaker 2: the mind of Stephen King.
- 4:54Speaker 3: And....
- 4:57Speaker 2: Much like everything else that's come from the mind of
- 4:59Speaker 2: Stephen King, he knows way too much. And he's letting
- 5:04Speaker 2: us know in his work how much he knows. And
- 5:09Speaker 2: we're going to break it down today and take a
- 5:12Speaker 2: closer look at the 2007 cinematic masterpiece, The Mist. What
- 5:20Speaker 2: inspired me to cover this movie in particular is today
- 5:25Speaker 2: was one of those really rainy overcast days and when
- 5:30Speaker 2: I woke up this morning there was this thick ass
- 5:34Speaker 2: foggy ass mist rolling down from the mountains and you
- 5:40Speaker 2: almost couldn't see the mountains at all because it was
- 5:44Speaker 2: so dense and so thick and I thought of this
- 5:47Speaker 2: movie and how horrifying it would be if something like
- 5:50Speaker 2: this happened in real life Hopefully most of you have
- 5:54Speaker 2: seen it. It's old. It's been around the block. If
- 5:57Speaker 2: you're not a horror fan, you probably haven't. But it's
- 6:02Speaker 2: definitely worth looking at. But before we get into today's breakdown,
- 6:06Speaker 2: if you love what I do, leave a five-star review.
- 6:10Speaker 2: And if you're new, welcome. And if you're a long-time listener,
- 6:15Speaker 2: welcome back. Today we are discussing, again, the 2007 movie
- 6:19Speaker 2: The Mist. based on the novella by Stephen King. But
- 6:26Speaker 2: I did have one thing I wanted to mention before
- 6:28Speaker 2: we just jump tits deep into this bitch. I might
- 6:32Speaker 2: share this as a future throwback Thursday, but do you
- 6:38Speaker 2: remember the episode I did about the original Pedophile Island?
- 6:43Speaker 2: It was owned by some Sheldon guy, I believe, and
- 6:47Speaker 2: it was connected to the Atlanta... child murders, the snow murders,
- 6:52Speaker 2: and this pedophilia ring that was running. It was the
- 6:55Speaker 2: original pedophile island. Well, a lot of people have covered
- 7:00Speaker 2: it since I've covered it, and some people have even
- 7:02Speaker 2: texted me like, hey, have you heard about the original
- 7:05Speaker 2: pedophile island? And I'm like, yeah, I did an episode
- 7:09Speaker 2: on it months ago. So I might share that as
- 7:14Speaker 2: a throwback Thursday, but what I didn't know that I
- 7:17Speaker 2: know now, and I'm sharing with you, is that there
- 7:20Speaker 2: was this airstrip. And you could only get to Pedophile Island, obviously,
- 7:26Speaker 2: because it was an island via the airstrip. And the
- 7:29Speaker 2: person who financed the airstrip for this original Pedophile Island
- 7:36Speaker 2: happened to be the grandfather of JonBenet Ramsey. That's something
- 7:42Speaker 2: I didn't know before, but I know now. I'm sharing
- 7:46Speaker 2: it with you assholes. I couldn't believe it. Well, I can,
- 7:50Speaker 2: you know, of course, but the original Pedophile Island airstrip
- 8:02Speaker 2: was financed by JonBenet Ramsey's grandfather. I mean, how? And
- 8:13Speaker 2: it is, like I said, connected to the Atlanta snow murders,
- 8:18Speaker 2: as they're sometimes referred to. And could the web get
- 8:25Speaker 2: any more twisted, tangled, convoluted? I guess it can. But anyways,
- 8:34Speaker 2: on with our story for today. If you haven't watched
- 8:38Speaker 2: the movie, like I said, you probably should. A lot
- 8:40Speaker 2: of stuff in here. A lot of Tidbits, juicy tidbits.
- 8:46Speaker 2: And to this day, when I watch the movie, I
- 8:49Speaker 2: just think if something like this were to really happen,
- 8:53Speaker 2: how would I protect myself? How could I defend my
- 8:58Speaker 2: home against these creatures? And what is Stephen King really
- 9:04Speaker 2: trying to say with this movie? Let's dive into it, people.
- 9:07Speaker 2: The 2007 film, The Mist. So Stephen King's The Mist
- 9:17Speaker 2: is not just a story about monsters. Of course, from
- 9:23Speaker 2: the very beginning, it does seem that way. As a white, dense,
- 9:29Speaker 2: unnatural mass of mist is descending over the small town
- 9:35Speaker 2: in Maine called Bridgeton. But it's so much more than that, people.
- 9:41Speaker 2: And Throughout the movie, it basically centers around all the townspeople.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Not all of them, but a lot of them are
- 9:53Speaker 2: trapped inside of a supermarket. And they're surrounded by these creatures.
- 10:00Speaker 2: that are moving through the mist. Distant screams are coming
- 10:05Speaker 2: from outside, and something altogether otherworldly is slowly stalking them
- 10:13Speaker 2: at a distance through the mist. But in a way,
- 10:17Speaker 2: you could say that The Mist is a story about
- 10:19Speaker 2: what happens when human beings open a door they were
- 10:26Speaker 2: never supposed to open. And this is where the CERN
- 10:30Speaker 2: stuff comes in. This is where the Stranger Things comes in.
- 10:33Speaker 2: This was Stranger Things before Stranger Things, of course, and
- 10:37Speaker 2: it's coming from Stephen King. Just like a lot of
- 10:41Speaker 2: his work. And you know Maine, by the way? Stephen
- 10:44Speaker 2: King is from Maine. And a lot of his storylines
- 10:48Speaker 2: center around Maine. Like Derry, Maine, and It. And this
- 10:52Speaker 2: is Bridgeton, Maine in The Mist. And It has more
- 10:58Speaker 2: supernatural and UFO sightings than any other state. So again, whatever...
- 11:07Speaker 2: Stephen King knows, and he twists it into like, oh,
- 11:12Speaker 2: it's just a sci-fi fantasy. Well, that's all fucking great,
- 11:15Speaker 2: Stephen King, except here's the problem. Most of the stuff
- 11:20Speaker 2: he's talking about actually exists, and I think we're seeing
- 11:24Speaker 2: a pretty clear picture of that in The Mist. So,
- 11:28Speaker 2: the most unsettling thing about this story is not just
- 11:33Speaker 2: that there are these hideous, horrifying... creatures that are hidden
- 11:37Speaker 2: in the mist and when they appear you don't even
- 11:40Speaker 2: know what you're looking at it's horrifying it's horrible there's
- 11:44Speaker 2: tentacles and shit the mist is everywhere i mean like
- 11:49Speaker 2: you can't see a hand in front of your face
- 11:52Speaker 2: and they actually in the movie it feels so real
- 11:56Speaker 2: because they used all these fog machines and shit And
- 12:00Speaker 2: so the mist that was rolling in is actually really mist.
- 12:03Speaker 2: They didn't do any CGI stuff with that. They used
- 12:06Speaker 2: an actual grocery store. They used actual people who worked
- 12:13Speaker 2: at the grocery store as extras in the background. I mean,
- 12:16Speaker 2: they really tried to give you that you're in this
- 12:22Speaker 2: feeling with the movie. And guess what? It worked because
- 12:26Speaker 2: every single time I watched the movie, I'm like, oh
- 12:29Speaker 2: my God. If this really happened, what the fuck would
- 12:33Speaker 2: everybody do? And this is so multi-layered because it's about chaos.
- 12:41Speaker 2: It's about what human beings would do in a hostile
- 12:47Speaker 2: chaos situation like this. It's about divine punishment. It's about
- 12:53Speaker 2: supernatural forces. It's about underground military bases. It's about It's
- 13:00Speaker 2: about black ops. It's about everything. And it's all mixed in.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Supernatural forces. Humanity trying to destroy itself. The Book of Revelation.
- 13:11Speaker 2: It's all there. Military experiments gone out of control. And
- 13:16Speaker 2: in the mist, the United States government funded this project
- 13:24Speaker 2: known as Arrowhead. Okay, and we don't learn about Project
- 13:30Speaker 2: Arrowhead until like the ass end of the movie. But
- 13:33Speaker 2: I'm telling you, this is what the movie is about.
- 13:35Speaker 2: This is how the book actually starts out. But let
- 13:38Speaker 2: me just tell you. The Mist is about this government funded.
- 13:43Speaker 2: Tell me he don't know some shit. Government funded experiment.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Dark Ops, Black Ops project called Arrowhead. Whose objective was
- 13:55Speaker 2: to look into other dimensions. And I guess actually there
- 14:00Speaker 2: were versions of the script for the movie. That included
- 14:05Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff about Project Arrowhead. And there was
- 14:10Speaker 2: actually deleted scenes about Project Arrowhead. And there was even
- 14:17Speaker 2: scenes that were supposed to be that were unfilmed. That
- 14:21Speaker 2: were in the script about Project Arrowhead. But for whatever reason.
- 14:27Speaker 2: That all got taken out. It got deleted. It got
- 14:32Speaker 2: the whole front of the movie. Where it goes into
- 14:35Speaker 2: Project Arrowhead got removed. But it's all in the book.
- 14:39Speaker 2: It's all in the novella. And I am using both
- 14:43Speaker 2: as source material. Because they're both very important. And what's
- 14:48Speaker 2: interesting about The Mist. I haven't read all the dark
- 14:53Speaker 2: tower series, but I guess the mist is integral to
- 14:58Speaker 2: the dark tower, um, like timeline, I guess, because they're, um,
- 15:05Speaker 2: saying that these creatures, and if you're not familiar with the,
- 15:09Speaker 2: the dark tower, I'm sorry, but I'm just going to
- 15:11Speaker 2: include a little bit of this because I've researched it.
- 15:15Speaker 2: And they're saying that these creatures, entities and creatures in
- 15:19Speaker 2: the mist are from the Toadash, this other dimension. And
- 15:27Speaker 2: it's just one of those elements of the whole Stephen
- 15:30Speaker 2: King universe or whatever. And we're not going to dive
- 15:33Speaker 2: too far into that. But basically the mist, this whole
- 15:38Speaker 2: thing that happened is like the, they opened a door
- 15:43Speaker 2: into another dimension and, And these creatures are coming in
- 15:47Speaker 2: from another place that Stephen King wrote about in The
- 15:52Speaker 2: Dark Tower, basically, to put it simply. Now, the storyline
- 15:59Speaker 2: focuses around David Drayton and his son Billy. We meet
- 16:07Speaker 2: his wife for like a half of a millisecond in
- 16:10Speaker 2: the very beginning of the movie. But that bitch died
- 16:13Speaker 2: pretty quick. And the beginning of the movie opens up
- 16:17Speaker 2: with David Drayton. He is painting in his painting room.
- 16:24Speaker 2: And there's this big, strong-ass, huge-ass thunderstorm. They call it
- 16:32Speaker 2: an electrical storm that's coming through. But if you look
- 16:37Speaker 2: at the paintings, he's painting a painting of the Dark Tower,
- 16:42Speaker 2: like the cover of the Dark Tower book. And he
- 16:46Speaker 2: also has a painting of The Thing, like the 80s
- 16:49Speaker 2: movie with Kurt Russell. He's got a painting of The Thing.
- 16:52Speaker 2: He's got a painting of the Dark Tower. And if
- 16:57Speaker 2: you'll remember when we were talking about in the other
- 17:01Speaker 2: movie breakdown about all the weird stuff with Antarctica and
- 17:04Speaker 2: The Thing and they discovered this weird entity that's like
- 17:10Speaker 2: a parasite that gets in your body or whatever. And
- 17:13Speaker 2: that's what the movie The Thing is about. So there's
- 17:15Speaker 2: a movie poster for The Thing that he's, David Drayton
- 17:21Speaker 2: has painted and it's hanging on the wall in the first,
- 17:26Speaker 2: in the very first scene of the movie. And he's
- 17:30Speaker 2: actively painting the the cover of the dark tower series.
- 17:34Speaker 2: So that in my mind can only mean one thing.
- 17:38Speaker 2: And the director even said those were placed very specifically.
- 17:43Speaker 2: And that's all he said about it. They were placed
- 17:45Speaker 2: very specifically. So if the thing, which is, we all
- 17:51Speaker 2: know the storyline about the Antarctica stuff and the weird
- 17:54Speaker 2: in the, the, uh, entity that gets in people's body.
- 17:58Speaker 2: And then the Dark Tower series about multiple dimensions and
- 18:02Speaker 2: all this stuff. Witches and warlocks and all type of
- 18:05Speaker 2: magic stuff. They combine in the mist. I'm not even
- 18:11Speaker 2: fucking with you. They're combining those elements in the mist.
- 18:16Speaker 2: And they're also incorporating this black ops part. called Project Arrowhead,
- 18:23Speaker 2: where they're opening doors into other dimensions. But anyways, okay. So,
- 18:29Speaker 2: David Drayton, he's painting in his painting room, this electrical
- 18:32Speaker 2: storm busts off, you know, and it's this same storm,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and this is the part about the storm that's fundamental,
- 18:44Speaker 2: is because nearby at the shore military base, The scientists
- 18:51Speaker 2: of Project Arrowhead were carrying out an experiment that depended
- 18:56Speaker 2: on an enormous amount of energy. And then everything goes wrong.
- 19:02Speaker 2: Because the purpose of this project was to create a
- 19:06Speaker 2: kind of trans-dimensional window or a controlled opening. that would
- 19:13Speaker 2: allow them to observe other worlds, other realities, and perhaps
- 19:19Speaker 2: eventually allow interdimensional travel for human beings. But the problem
- 19:27Speaker 2: is they didn't open a window. They opened a door.
- 19:32Speaker 2: And as often happens in Stephen King's stories, human curiosity
- 19:39Speaker 2: went too far. before truly understanding what it was that
- 19:44Speaker 2: they were dealing with over there in the trans-dimensional universe.
- 19:50Speaker 2: the thunderstorm overloaded the project systems the portal they had
- 19:56Speaker 2: managed to open began to grow and what was supposed
- 20:01Speaker 2: to be a limited opening became unstable and from the
- 20:07Speaker 2: other side something that did not belong in our world
- 20:11Speaker 2: began to enter. So, this dense white mist, seemingly alive,
- 20:20Speaker 2: accompanied by predatory entities and creatures that came from an
- 20:26Speaker 2: ecosystem completely alien to our own, inhabits the town of Bridgeton, Maine. And, um...
- 20:37Speaker 2: The film, again, was supposed to be going over all
- 20:41Speaker 2: this in the beginning about the Arrowhead Laboratory and showing
- 20:45Speaker 2: scientists working with a trans-dimensional chamber. And the movie was
- 20:51Speaker 2: even supposed to depict the portal opening. Inside some kind
- 20:56Speaker 2: of a tank. And then the storm that rolled through.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Causing everything to spiral out of control. And then the
- 21:03Speaker 2: mist breaks through. And the fucking creatures fill the container.
- 21:08Speaker 2: And they break the security system. I guess whatever security
- 21:14Speaker 2: system they had. Electrified fences or whatever. They escape all
- 21:18Speaker 2: that shit. They break into our world. And they're running rampant.
- 21:23Speaker 2: But the director, for whatever reason, not only did they
- 21:26Speaker 2: cut the budget for this film last minute, they told
- 21:29Speaker 2: him he had to take all this stuff out about
- 21:32Speaker 2: Project Arrowhead. And the director was like, oh, I guess
- 21:37Speaker 2: that works because then the viewer won't know what's going
- 21:40Speaker 2: on until like the ass end of the movie. But
- 21:42Speaker 2: the problem is, I think that's just kind of like
- 21:46Speaker 2: a cop out because they didn't want all that stuff
- 21:50Speaker 2: about Project Arrowhead in the movie, so blatantly obvious. Because
- 21:57Speaker 2: like I said, we hear whispers of it and we
- 22:00Speaker 2: see at the very beginning of the movie, like all
- 22:02Speaker 2: these military trucks driving everywhere, but they don't tell you
- 22:07Speaker 2: about Project Arrowhead till literally the ass end of the movie.
- 22:12Speaker 2: All right. So we discover this shit alongside the cast members.
- 22:19Speaker 2: And the director said maybe that worked out for the best.
- 22:21Speaker 2: I say they cut all that shit out because they
- 22:23Speaker 2: don't want people knowing all of everything. Because if the
- 22:29Speaker 2: opening of the movie was anything like the rest of
- 22:31Speaker 2: the movie, I'm sure it was pretty fucking realistic. Maybe
- 22:34Speaker 2: it would have terrified people to see something like that.
- 22:37Speaker 2: What they probably really have. Some kind of an interdimensional
- 22:42Speaker 2: chamber that you can walk through. Yeah, it might have
- 22:44Speaker 2: scared people to see the real technology behind that. They Anyways,
- 22:48Speaker 2: it's 2007. They took all that shit out. Nobody was
- 22:51Speaker 2: ready for that. Because they're talking about how if this
- 22:54Speaker 2: fits in with the Dark Tower, then this Project Arrowhead
- 22:58Speaker 2: would have been what they referred to as like a
- 23:01Speaker 2: crack or a doorway, a deformation in the fabric of
- 23:08Speaker 2: the universe. And those cracks, as they're called, connect to
- 23:15Speaker 2: the total space, which is... a dimension of emptiness that
- 23:19Speaker 2: exists between alternate universes, and is inhabited by these entities
- 23:25Speaker 2: and creatures that are fucking impossible for the human mind
- 23:29Speaker 2: to even comprehend. So, again, if it's connected to the
- 23:35Speaker 2: Dark Tower series, and they're bringing in the Thing and
- 23:37Speaker 2: all that shit, God only knows what they took out
- 23:42Speaker 2: about this Project Arrowhead. So, anyways... As the story goes,
- 23:48Speaker 2: this big thunderstorm rolls through and it breaks the window
- 23:53Speaker 2: where David Drayton is sitting there painting stuff. And the
- 23:59Speaker 2: next day he sees this mist rolling in from the
- 24:02Speaker 2: mountains and he tells his wife, I'm going to take
- 24:05Speaker 2: our son. I'm going to go down to the fucking supermarket.
- 24:09Speaker 2: I'm going to buy a few things, a few essentials
- 24:11Speaker 2: we might need. And maybe some tape or some shit
- 24:15Speaker 2: to tape this window up. So fucking the elements don't
- 24:18Speaker 2: get inside the house. And she's like, okay, honey, just
- 24:21Speaker 2: fuck off and I'll see you later. But before he
- 24:24Speaker 2: does that, his neighbor, because of the bad storm, a
- 24:28Speaker 2: tree fell on his car and he needs to lift
- 24:32Speaker 2: his supermarket too. So he pick up his neighbor. He's
- 24:35Speaker 2: got a son, Billy, and they head off to the supermarket.
- 24:38Speaker 2: By the time they get to the fucking supermarket, the
- 24:41Speaker 2: whole mist is covering everything, it's covering the whole damn town,
- 24:45Speaker 2: it's coming in through the parking lot, it's ominous, it's horrifying,
- 24:49Speaker 2: it's horrible, and they're like, oh my god, it's the mist, ah,
- 24:54Speaker 2: you know, and this guy, this rando guy, he runs
- 24:59Speaker 2: into the supermarket, and he's like, there's something in the mist,
- 25:04Speaker 2: there's something in the mist, and this is where you're
- 25:07Speaker 2: adrenaline really starts pumping because we haven't seen what's in
- 25:11Speaker 2: the mist yet but it's one of the most important
- 25:14Speaker 2: lines in the entire story because it's like what's in
- 25:17Speaker 2: the mist something's in the mist and these horrendous sirens
- 25:21Speaker 2: like if you ever heard I lived in Oklahoma for
- 25:24Speaker 2: 13 years so I get the sirens they tested the
- 25:27Speaker 2: sirens every Saturday at noon just to make sure they
- 25:31Speaker 2: were working but the first time I heard them I
- 25:33Speaker 2: thought we were all gonna die I thought we were
- 25:35Speaker 2: all in the mist and And these entities were going
- 25:38Speaker 2: to come get us. I just knew it. The sound
- 25:42Speaker 2: of the siren sends just a chill down your spine.
- 25:47Speaker 2: And then you see the mist has totally encased the supermarket.
- 25:51Speaker 2: You can't see anything outside the fucking supermarket. There's zero visibility.
- 25:57Speaker 2: And everybody that's in there is trapped in there. Except
- 26:00Speaker 2: for this one woman... who's like a weird buzz-cutted Sigourney
- 26:05Speaker 2: Weaver knockoff from Aliens, and she's like, I got kids
- 26:12Speaker 2: at home. I gotta get out of here. Who's gonna
- 26:15Speaker 2: walk me to my car? Who's gonna see a lady home?
- 26:19Speaker 2: And everybody's like, fuck you, bitch, and fuck your kids, too.
- 26:22Speaker 2: I ain't going out there and that shit, and It's
- 26:25Speaker 2: a real weird moment in the whole storyline because she's like,
- 26:30Speaker 2: I got kids at home. Somebody be a gentleman and
- 26:34Speaker 2: see a lady back to her home. I'm a single mom, whatever.
- 26:38Speaker 2: And everybody's just like, fuck you, bitch. Any kids. And
- 26:42Speaker 2: that's important. We'll talk about the rest of that in
- 26:45Speaker 2: a minute. But she goes out on her own. She
- 26:47Speaker 2: goes into the mist and we never see her ass again.
- 26:50Speaker 2: And not a single person, not a single fucking person
- 26:54Speaker 2: piped up saying, I will walk you home. I'll go
- 26:57Speaker 2: with you. We'll do it together. Nobody's saying that. But
- 27:02Speaker 2: something happens. I think the generator went out or something
- 27:07Speaker 2: like that. And so the next part of the storyline,
- 27:12Speaker 2: David Drayton goes with this little bag boy, Norm. out
- 27:17Speaker 2: to the loading dock where the generator is and they're
- 27:21Speaker 2: trying to figure out something's wrong with it and they're
- 27:24Speaker 2: trying to get it powered back up because they need
- 27:27Speaker 2: power to the store obviously and the little ginger hair
- 27:33Speaker 2: bag boy who is one of the ugliest human beings
- 27:36Speaker 2: i've ever seen in my life i'm not going to
- 27:38Speaker 2: say he deserved to die but i wasn't sad about
- 27:40Speaker 2: it if you know what i'm saying because i could
- 27:42Speaker 2: not have looked at him for the rest of the
- 27:44Speaker 2: movie just no jawline, just receded chin as fuck, just
- 27:50Speaker 2: the worst type of ginger I've ever seen, um, and,
- 27:55Speaker 2: you know, just a pompous asshole, and he goes, oh,
- 27:58Speaker 2: there's something clogging it up from the outside, let's open
- 28:02Speaker 2: the loading dock door, and, um, I'll go out there,
- 28:07Speaker 2: I'll see what's wrong with it, and I'll come back
- 28:09Speaker 2: inside and David Drayton's like, you probably fucking shouldn't because
- 28:13Speaker 2: we don't know what's in the mist. It could be,
- 28:15Speaker 2: they were all thinking that the mist could be like
- 28:17Speaker 2: some type of, you couldn't breathe in it or it'll
- 28:20Speaker 2: choke you out or something like that. They weren't scared
- 28:22Speaker 2: about that. Well, they found out what they really needed
- 28:25Speaker 2: to be scared about when they opened the loading dock door.
- 28:29Speaker 2: And this thing, this fucking creature that you don't ever
- 28:34Speaker 2: want to see in real life had tentacles with little
- 28:38Speaker 2: mouths on them. And the mouths have little teeth, little
- 28:42Speaker 2: sharp teeth. And it grabs this kid. And it just
- 28:48Speaker 2: is tearing him up. It's just, there's just, oh, oh.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm not saying he deserved it. But
- 28:57Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. And... the the it's just it's just pulling
- 29:04Speaker 2: him under it's just wrapped him up it's just got
- 29:06Speaker 2: his legs it's got his arms we never even see
- 29:09Speaker 2: what the tentacles are attached to and it gets norm
- 29:13Speaker 2: and he just you know accepts his fate i guess
- 29:16Speaker 2: he gets he's like ah somebody help me well yes
- 29:20Speaker 2: wanted the door open and now the door's open They
- 29:24Speaker 2: ended up getting the door back closed, but it took
- 29:26Speaker 2: little Norm ass. It took him in and drug him
- 29:29Speaker 2: all the way back to wherever the fucking creature was.
- 29:33Speaker 2: We didn't see where the, all we saw was the tentacles.
- 29:36Speaker 2: And it was horrific. David Dre. he goes back to
- 29:43Speaker 2: tell everybody something took norm and it had tentacles and
- 29:46Speaker 2: it was fucked up and it was crazy and his
- 29:49Speaker 2: neighbor and You know, all these super liberal, they make
- 29:54Speaker 2: sure to let you know they're all super liberal. The
- 29:56Speaker 2: one guy's a black guy and he's super liberal and
- 29:59Speaker 2: he's from New York. And they're all like, oh, fuck you.
- 30:03Speaker 2: And you don't tell me what I'm going to do.
- 30:04Speaker 2: You don't kind of tell me there's creatures in the mist.
- 30:06Speaker 2: You think I'm a stupid hillbilly. And so all the
- 30:10Speaker 2: liberals join up and they're like, we're going to go
- 30:13Speaker 2: outside and we're going to face this mist because there's
- 30:16Speaker 2: nothing in the mist. you fucking asshole. And David Drayton's like,
- 30:21Speaker 2: all right, that's fine. Y'all go on ahead. We'll stay
- 30:24Speaker 2: right here. And one of the guys, he didn't even
- 30:26Speaker 2: want to go, but he was like, fuck it, I
- 30:29Speaker 2: guess I'll go. And they tie a rope around him,
- 30:32Speaker 2: send him out into the mist with all the liberals. And,
- 30:37Speaker 2: you know, they just want to see how far he'll get.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Based on how much rope gets let out. And needless
- 30:45Speaker 2: to say, he gets halfway out the damn door. And
- 30:47Speaker 2: that rope is just, they're trying to pull him back inside.
- 30:50Speaker 2: And the rope is all bloody. And they just pulled
- 30:54Speaker 2: back half of his torso. And he's all cut up
- 30:56Speaker 2: and hacked up. And we don't even know what happened
- 30:59Speaker 2: to the rest of him. All we got is a torso,
- 31:03Speaker 2: set of hips, a couple legs, and the cowboy boots.
- 31:06Speaker 2: That's it. That's all that came back. So they all
- 31:09Speaker 2: start really freaking the fuck out because they were like, oh, actually,
- 31:12Speaker 2: there's something in the mist. But all the meantime, there's
- 31:18Speaker 2: this lady, something or other, Mrs. Carmody, Mrs. Carmody. And
- 31:24Speaker 2: she's like this Bible something person. old school preaching doomsday
- 31:33Speaker 2: book of revelation um you know just the worst type
- 31:40Speaker 2: of you know and i'm not gonna lie i might
- 31:44Speaker 2: i might be this person if some shit like this
- 31:47Speaker 2: started but i'm not saying i'll i would go as
- 31:49Speaker 2: far as she did but if i saw something like
- 31:53Speaker 2: this i'd be thinking biblical And they did go this
- 31:56Speaker 2: biblical angle with it, like the wrath of God type stuff.
- 32:02Speaker 2: And Miss Carmody, she starts saying like, oh, we gotta,
- 32:06Speaker 2: we get, this is God's punishment on us. And everybody
- 32:09Speaker 2: was like, shut the fuck up, Mrs. Carmody, you fucking asshole.
- 32:13Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden when people start, you know,
- 32:18Speaker 2: getting taken by things in the mist and shit starts
- 32:22Speaker 2: really popping off and they start breaking through the, front
- 32:25Speaker 2: of the supermarket and there's there's these I don't even
- 32:29Speaker 2: know what to call them they're like they're like scorpion
- 32:33Speaker 2: mixed with a uh like they have chameleon eyes but
- 32:40Speaker 2: they they got scorpion tails and they got wings like
- 32:44Speaker 2: a fly and they got legs like a spider and
- 32:48Speaker 2: um just the worst type of weird insectoid looking thing
- 32:52Speaker 2: and you've ever seen and they burst through the front
- 32:56Speaker 2: of the supermarket and these weird like dragon like things
- 33:00Speaker 2: burst through the front of the supermarket and they're stinging
- 33:03Speaker 2: people in the neck and they're all they're getting the
- 33:06Speaker 2: pus squirting out of their necks and they're all dying
- 33:10Speaker 2: and um you know the they look the other ones
- 33:13Speaker 2: look like a dragon and a buzzard mixed together oh
- 33:16Speaker 2: it's terrible But after that happens, people start paying a
- 33:20Speaker 2: little too much attention to Mrs. Carmody. Because they're like, uh-oh,
- 33:25Speaker 2: we're out of control here. And people's dying left and right.
- 33:28Speaker 2: Maybe Mrs. Carmody's right. Now, what's interesting about this is
- 33:34Speaker 2: that the character Mrs. Carmody is based off of an
- 33:39Speaker 2: actual real life. And I got this from the director's notes.
- 33:44Speaker 2: And he told her to study... this TV preacher. And
- 33:49Speaker 2: I want to say it's that one that I'm always
- 33:52Speaker 2: talking about. Gosh, what is his name? Oh, he's just, he's,
- 33:59Speaker 2: he's got connections to Tyler Perry and he speaks in tongues,
- 34:04Speaker 2: but it sounds like the devil's coming right through him.
- 34:08Speaker 2: And he's got some really, really suspicious ties. He's got
- 34:12Speaker 2: a private jet and he flies it to like Haiti
- 34:15Speaker 2: and stuff and does weird shit with kids. Anyways, the
- 34:21Speaker 2: director said Mrs. Connerty's character is based off of him
- 34:25Speaker 2: and he told her to study him, which I think is, again,
- 34:32Speaker 2: is everything a conspiracy? Yeah, I think everything is a conspiracy.
- 34:36Speaker 2: We already got all this project arrowhead and all this
- 34:39Speaker 2: stuff breaking loose and i couldn't i i can't help
- 34:44Speaker 2: but to think that this televangelist guy is part of
- 34:49Speaker 2: it but so people start really paying attention to her
- 34:53Speaker 2: and she forms this little cult and for whatever reason
- 34:58Speaker 2: she's drinking milk all the time again and It's just
- 35:03Speaker 2: weird symbolism. You know, she's drinking milk out of a
- 35:06Speaker 2: glass jar in a lot of the scenes. What that
- 35:10Speaker 2: could mean, I don't know. But I feel like it's
- 35:12Speaker 2: really significant because I don't think a lot of people
- 35:15Speaker 2: just sit and drink milk out of glass cartons all
- 35:17Speaker 2: the time. But she's formed a little cult and she's
- 35:22Speaker 2: talking about expiation, expiation in the only way possible. she
- 35:28Speaker 2: tells everyone the only way that their lives will be
- 35:31Speaker 2: spared is if they start sacrificing people to the beast. Literally,
- 35:41Speaker 2: that's what she starts saying, is the only way that
- 35:46Speaker 2: their lives will be spared is if they continue sacrificing
- 35:50Speaker 2: people to the beast. And believe it or not, there
- 35:55Speaker 2: are some military men that got stuck inside the supermarket
- 36:00Speaker 2: and they've got these project arrowhead badges this is where
- 36:04Speaker 2: this is the first reference of when we see the
- 36:06Speaker 2: project arrowhead and anybody even talking about it and um
- 36:11Speaker 2: you know one of the military men he was like
- 36:13Speaker 2: we were trying to open a window but we opened
- 36:16Speaker 2: a door and we That's where these creatures are coming from.
- 36:19Speaker 2: And Mrs. Carmody, she's like, okay, well, you're the first
- 36:22Speaker 2: one to get sacrificed. Congratulations. And he was like, I
- 36:26Speaker 2: just worked there. I didn't do this shit. And she's
- 36:29Speaker 2: basically like, nope, you're part of it. So they toss
- 36:33Speaker 2: his ass out. And strangely, it works. It works, quote unquote.
- 36:39Speaker 2: I don't even know. I guess it worked. And the
- 36:42Speaker 2: thing grabbed him and tore him into a million pieces
- 36:45Speaker 2: and ate him up. And then they didn't have any
- 36:49Speaker 2: more experiences the rest of that night. And she was like, okay,
- 36:53Speaker 2: it's satisfied expiation. Now it won't come for us again.
- 36:58Speaker 2: And so that was even further. People were like, all right,
- 37:02Speaker 2: she knows what she's talking about. We got to expiate
- 37:04Speaker 2: these people. But it takes a real hard turn when
- 37:09Speaker 2: she said the next person that needed to be sacrificed
- 37:12Speaker 2: was David Drayton's little boy, Billy, who was probably all
- 37:16Speaker 2: of about eight years old. And David Drayton's like, all right,
- 37:21Speaker 2: now fuck this shit. And they all hurt so badly. Mrs.
- 37:27Speaker 2: Carmody's little cult that she got started was like, oh no,
- 37:31Speaker 2: she said, Billy's got to be sacrificed. So we got
- 37:34Speaker 2: to get Billy. So they all, everybody in the grocery
- 37:37Speaker 2: store start coming after that little boy and they're going
- 37:39Speaker 2: to toss him into the mist. And out of nowhere,
- 37:42Speaker 2: one of the sane people pulls out a gun, shoots Mrs.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Carmody in the head or in the stomach and her milk.
- 37:51Speaker 2: bursts everywhere and then shoots her again in the head,
- 37:54Speaker 2: I think. And people are like, oh my fucking God.
- 37:58Speaker 2: And basically David Drayton gets his son and the few,
- 38:05Speaker 2: like three or four, Let me see. It would have
- 38:08Speaker 2: been three other people or four other people that hadn't
- 38:11Speaker 2: joined the cult yet. Bands together and they decide, fuck
- 38:15Speaker 2: this shit. We just going to go ahead and go
- 38:18Speaker 2: out into the mist. It's better than staying here with
- 38:20Speaker 2: all you fucked up individuals. So they go out into
- 38:25Speaker 2: the mist. A couple of them gets scooped up by
- 38:28Speaker 2: these things. And this just, just carnage just ripped into
- 38:34Speaker 2: a million pieces. But they make it to one of
- 38:38Speaker 2: their cars. I think it's David Drayton's car. They make
- 38:43Speaker 2: it to the car. And they decide they're just going
- 38:47Speaker 2: to keep driving until the gas goes out. And there's
- 38:51Speaker 2: all these things in the mist. There's something called the
- 38:54Speaker 2: behemoth in the mist. There's just prehistoric looking creatures in
- 39:01Speaker 2: the mist. And the whole, one of the ideas is
- 39:06Speaker 2: that the mist was an atmosphere in and of itself,
- 39:10Speaker 2: and that's what allowed these creatures to live in it,
- 39:13Speaker 2: in our world, is that it was part of their
- 39:16Speaker 2: atmosphere that seeped into our world, but, um, yeah, it
- 39:22Speaker 2: was just, it was crazy, and then, you know, they're driving, driving, driving,
- 39:27Speaker 2: it's David Drayton, his little boy billy couple of school
- 39:31Speaker 2: teachers and this old cowboy guy they're the last ones
- 39:36Speaker 2: from the supermarket to make it out alive and they
- 39:40Speaker 2: just keep driving and all of a sudden oops ran
- 39:44Speaker 2: out of gas and they can hear these creatures all
- 39:47Speaker 2: around them they're surrounded They can't see anything else. The
- 39:52Speaker 2: mist is totally and completely thick as a blanket laying
- 39:56Speaker 2: over you. And they have a few bullets left from
- 40:01Speaker 2: shooting Mrs. Carmody left in the gun. Because I shot
- 40:06Speaker 2: her twice and they got, I think, four bullets left. Or, yeah,
- 40:13Speaker 2: that would have been one, two, three, four.
- 40:16Speaker 3: Yep.
- 40:17Speaker 2: They got four bullets left in the gun because they
- 40:20Speaker 2: shot Miss Carmody twice. And David Drayton decides and he
- 40:24Speaker 2: looks at everybody and he's like, you want me to
- 40:26Speaker 2: do it? And they're like, yeah, except for Billy. He's
- 40:29Speaker 2: eight years old. He don't even know what the fuck's up.
- 40:31Speaker 2: So this is like, this is not actually in the book.
- 40:34Speaker 2: And it just was this horrific for the movie. He
- 40:38Speaker 2: takes the gun and he shoots them all. He shoots
- 40:40Speaker 2: his son in the head. He shoots both of the
- 40:42Speaker 2: school teachers in the head and he shoots the old
- 40:44Speaker 2: Western guy in the head and there's no bullet left
- 40:47Speaker 2: for him. And he just got to sit there and
- 40:49Speaker 2: let one of these creatures eat him up, I guess.
- 40:53Speaker 2: So he exits the car and he's standing in the mist.
- 40:56Speaker 2: And he's ready for something to come and grab him
- 41:01Speaker 2: and just eat him up. And instead, the mist starts clearing.
- 41:09Speaker 2: And all these military vehicles are racing past them. And
- 41:16Speaker 2: all of these... military personnel with like flamethrowers are coming
- 41:22Speaker 2: out from all over the place and they're they're uh
- 41:27Speaker 2: killing all the creatures and they got grenades and fucking
- 41:32Speaker 2: all this stuff and that that you can see the
- 41:34Speaker 2: mist is slowly clearing until it's almost not there anymore
- 41:39Speaker 2: and this military vehicle passes by and it's got the
- 41:45Speaker 2: buzz-cutted Sigourney Weaver knockoff on the military van with her
- 41:51Speaker 2: two kids, and she's just looking at him like, see, bitch,
- 41:55Speaker 2: I got saved, and nobody wanted to walk me out
- 41:59Speaker 2: of the store when I asked if anybody could help me,
- 42:02Speaker 2: if anybody wanted to go with me. I had to
- 42:04Speaker 2: get back to my kids, and nobody wanted to go
- 42:06Speaker 2: with me, so I went by myself, and I got
- 42:08Speaker 2: saved by the military people when I'm here with my
- 42:11Speaker 2: two kids on the military bus, and look at your ass.
- 42:14Speaker 2: You just killed your whole family and all your friends
- 42:17Speaker 2: and you're alone now. I can't imagine if it really
- 42:22Speaker 2: came down to it and you were in that type
- 42:24Speaker 2: of situation and to spare your own son, you had
- 42:27Speaker 2: to blow his head off. And then, oh, just kidding.
- 42:31Speaker 2: Everybody's got saved. Everybody's getting saved. And that includes everybody
- 42:36Speaker 2: at the supermarket that kept saying, no, let's stay here.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Let's just keep sacrificing people to the thing so it
- 42:45Speaker 2: won't come back after us. If we give it a
- 42:47Speaker 2: snack every now and again, it might not come back
- 42:50Speaker 2: after us. So everybody in the supermarket was saved. The
- 42:54Speaker 2: lady who went to go get her kids was saved.
- 42:57Speaker 2: The only person that died directly related to David Drayton
- 43:03Speaker 2: were the ones that he killed. He killed it. He
- 43:07Speaker 2: did the things that they could have all been saved.
- 43:11Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying? But this is the, I
- 43:15Speaker 2: guess it's an experiment in the human condition as well
- 43:19Speaker 2: as this dark ops project. You know what I'm saying? This,
- 43:25Speaker 2: this project arrowhead stuff and What I also later found
- 43:34Speaker 2: out is that the creatures in The Mist are based
- 43:39Speaker 2: off of some H.P. Lovecraft stuff. And a lot of
- 43:46Speaker 2: inspiration was drawn from H.P. Lovecraft for this film. That
- 43:53Speaker 2: comes from the director. And the guy who did the
- 43:57Speaker 2: visuals of the creatures and stuff, they all said, They
- 44:01Speaker 2: took a lot of inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft. And the
- 44:05Speaker 2: whole movie is just, you sit at the edge of
- 44:09Speaker 2: your seat and you're hoping to God that it's over
- 44:13Speaker 2: soon because you got on the roller coaster and immediately
- 44:17Speaker 2: regretted it. You know, that's happened to me before. I
- 44:21Speaker 2: can't even go to theme parks anymore. And I just
- 44:24Speaker 2: seen a motherfucker died on a roller coaster recently. So
- 44:27Speaker 2: that's definitely, I can't do it. Nope.
- 44:29Speaker 3: Mm-mm.
- 44:30Speaker 2: I have a little baby son and I got to
- 44:32Speaker 2: protect him from my death. No more roller coasters. But
- 44:36Speaker 2: I have gotten on roller coasters before. I've stood in
- 44:39Speaker 2: line for an hour, gotten up there, got in the motherfucker,
- 44:43Speaker 2: closed myself into it, and then immediately was like, how
- 44:47Speaker 2: do I get out of this? I do not even
- 44:49Speaker 2: want to go on this ride. That's what it feels
- 44:52Speaker 2: like watching The Mist. You think you want to. you
- 44:56Speaker 2: start it you're like all right this isn't too bad
- 44:59Speaker 2: and it hits you and it hits you fast and
- 45:01Speaker 2: you're like oh god no i'm ready to get off
- 45:05Speaker 2: you know you're on the stephen king coaster and that's
- 45:12Speaker 2: how it is and supposedly like i said this is
- 45:16Speaker 2: all connected to the dark tower series and um why
- 45:21Speaker 2: they took out all the extra bits and pieces about
- 45:24Speaker 2: this Project Arrowhead and all the visual stuff about the
- 45:28Speaker 2: Project Arrowhead remains to be seen. There's conflicting information on
- 45:35Speaker 2: why they took that out. I think it's because it
- 45:38Speaker 2: was showing a little bit too much. And there's even
- 45:41Speaker 2: this one scene, I didn't even mention it because I'm
- 45:45Speaker 2: just trying to get all the most important bits out there,
- 45:49Speaker 2: but They have to go across the street to this pharmacy,
- 45:52Speaker 2: and there's these little demon spiders, and they lay eggs
- 45:57Speaker 2: in you. But anyways, there's like a military guy in there,
- 46:00Speaker 2: and he's giving away trade secrets, and then all these
- 46:04Speaker 2: spiders explode out of him. You guys just need to
- 46:07Speaker 2: go back and watch it. I'm telling you, it's like
- 46:09Speaker 2: if The Thing and Stranger Things... And I guess the
- 46:16Speaker 2: Dark Tower stuff. And they all fucked in some type
- 46:19Speaker 2: of a menage a trois. And they had a baby.
- 46:22Speaker 2: It would be The Mist. And so, you know, it's
- 46:28Speaker 2: just the fact that I know this is really, really real.
- 46:31Speaker 2: They do and are currently trying to open these doors
- 46:36Speaker 2: and open these windows. And it's a matter of fucking
- 46:40Speaker 2: time before, oopsie, we're in The Mist. And if we
- 46:45Speaker 2: happen to become in that situation, just know, based off
- 46:51Speaker 2: of what I've learned from The Mist, don't join any
- 46:55Speaker 2: cults and just stay your ass in your house until
- 46:58Speaker 2: help comes. Don't kill your whole family. Probably don't go
- 47:03Speaker 2: televangelist on anyone. Also, don't open the door and think
- 47:08Speaker 2: you're the big hero, because I promise you're not. Just
- 47:11Speaker 2: stay your ass inside. Just make sure you got enough
- 47:16Speaker 2: Uncrustables and Totino's pizza rolls to last you for a
- 47:21Speaker 2: couple weeks and you'll be good. But I want to know,
- 47:25Speaker 2: have any of you seen The Mist? You know, what
- 47:30Speaker 2: are your thoughts on it? Like I said, I clearly... Obviously,
- 47:35Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you there's more going on with
- 47:38Speaker 2: this story. And it's probably closer to reality based on
- 47:43Speaker 2: reality than we even realize. I think Stranger Things was too.
- 47:49Speaker 2: But I want to know, what do you think of this?
- 47:52Speaker 2: Let me know in the comments section. If you've seen
- 47:55Speaker 2: The Mist, what your thoughts on it are. This was
- 47:58Speaker 2: just a quick little breakdown. It's one of my favorite
- 48:00Speaker 2: Halloween movies to watch.
- 48:03Speaker 3: And.
- 48:04Speaker 2: They got some Dark Tower stuff coming out soon, and
- 48:09Speaker 2: now more than ever, it's kind of interesting to go
- 48:13Speaker 2: back and see what all he has incorporated into the
- 48:18Speaker 2: Dark Tower. I guess the mist is part of.
- 48:20Speaker 3: It, too.
- 48:22Speaker 2: But if you enjoyed today's breakdown, go ahead and comment
- 48:27Speaker 2: Project Arrowhead in the comments section. Again, that's Project Arrowhead
- 48:33Speaker 2: in the comments section. If you enjoyed today's episode, let
- 48:36Speaker 2: me know if you've seen it, what your thoughts on
- 48:38Speaker 2: it are. And take care of yourselves out there. I
- 48:43Speaker 2: love each and every one of you. And I will
- 48:46Speaker 2: catch you on the next one.