The Mist (2007) KILL COUNT

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The Mist (2007) KILL COUNT is the thirtieth video of The Kill Count.

Overview[]

The movie begins with David Drayton hand-painting a movie poster for an upcoming film. A collection of his other original works, including a poster of The Thing, can be seen in his studio. That night, an immense storm strikes Bridgton, Maine, the location of the story, and his house loses power and a tree pummels through his studio window, destroying his latest painting. The next morning, David, his eight-year-old son Billy, and his wife Steff are straightening out debris and assessing damage from the storm. Outside, the family notices a thick mist coming from off the nearby lake. In the storm, the Drayton family boathouse has been crushed by a fallen tree from their neighbor's house. They go to their neighbor, Brent Norton, who is a lawyer, to exchange insurance information about the boathouse. David notices that Brent's Mercedes convertible has been demolished by a falling tree. Brent asks David if he will be going into town to pick up food and supplies and if he could get a ride, noticing that the storm claimed his car. David says yes, and they drive to town in David's SUV for the grocery store. Steff sticks around behind the house. While driving to the supermarket, they view several electric company trucks leading in the other direction, and oddly, several dozen military vehicles presiding to the military base. David says to Brent if he's ever heard of all the crazy conspiracy stories about the military base and Project Arrowhead, but he simply laughs.

Upon arriving at the supermarket, they find the store to be packed with people who are also stocking up on supplies. Three military men in the store are on break. The soldiers are approached by a Military Policeman to return to base and their leave has been adjourned and they have thirty minutes to complete their shopping. After a minute elapses as David, Billy, and Brent enter the store, a man, Dan Miller, a local townsperson, flies into the market, bloodied and frantic. The man instantly begins screaming about something hidden in the mist that is attacking and annihilating people. Everyone looks outside, and the mist has now entirely surrounded the grocery store and nothing can be seen outside of the store but white smoke. Several people flee the store directly and screams are heard shortly after coming from outside. Jeff tells everyone to close off the doorway to the store and to remain inside. However, there is a lady who fears that she's left her two young children on their own at home. She wants to leave the supermarket to go home to check on them and asks everybody to volunteer to chaperone her. Nobody volunteers, so she leaves the supermarket on her own.

Meanwhile, David already realizes that they will be spending the next several hours, if not days in the store, and goes to the back of the store to check the generator. In the backroom of the store where the generator is, the loading dock, he hears something outside of the large loading dock door. Eventually the thing, the creature, starts pressing heavily into the door and he runs back into the main store. He tells Myron, Jim and Ollie what he heard through the door and they don't believe him. David also tells him that the generator is smoking and might not work for that much long if it is not fixed. The four of them are joined by a young bagboy of the grocery store, Norm, and the five of them go back to the loading dock in the back of the store to fix the generator.

They conclude that the generator's exhaust system is plugged up outside and that someone must physically remove what's unclogging the generator. Norm recruits to go outside. David warns and pleads for no one to go outside. Norm and the other men ignore the alarms and open the large loading dock garage door. Upon opening the door, the mist has become extremely thick and begins gradually entering the loading dock. Before anyone can respond, a large tentacle catches Norm's leg and pulls him under the door. He grabs the door and David pulls him back into the loading dock. Unfortunately, several additional tentacles track Norm back into the loading dock and start tearing flesh from his body. Bloodied and terrified Norm is dragged outside into the mist. David quickly grabs an axe and contrives to chop off the end of one of the tentacles. They close the loading dock entrance. The mist concealed what the tentacles were attached to. The generator is regardless occluded.

The men are in surprise and go back into the grocery to tell Brent what they've found out, and to ask him if he has no idea what to do. However, he lashes out at them, believing they are playing a prank on him by saying that monsters are residing in the mist. Brent assumes that some of the townspeople are setting him up and that no monsters exist. Brent says that he knows it's merely a storm and that trying to joke about monsters is not going to work on him. He says that the men are trying to trick him because he was the lawyer who represented people who sued this grocery store and lost. David and the men though show Brent and several others the piece of tentacle that David had severed from the monster. Brent has already made up his mind though, and he says that it proves frivolity and that the mist is nothing more than part of a storm.

Brent organizes a group of people to leave the store to drive and track down help, comforting them that nothing is going to occur if they leave the store into the mist. One man says that when Brent and his group leave, he will go to the parking lot and retrieve a shotgun from another man's car who is too afraid to retrieve the gun himself, and he will bring the gun back into the store. David asks the man to tie a 300-foot rope around his waist so that the people in the store will know that he made it at least as far as the rope goes. Brent and his group leave first. The man with the rope leaves right behind them. After a minute of silence, waiting for the man to come back with the shotgun, his rope starts pulling rapidly out of the store. David and several others try to hang on but suffer rope burns. Finally, the rope stops pulling, and David and the others pull on the rope. Eventually, the rope starts coming back into the store red, covered in fresh dripping blood, and everyone in the store begins crying and screaming. The lower, severed half, of the mans body is still attached to the end of the rope. They decide not to drag the torso in and let it rest in front of the store. The remaining people presume that Brent and his group have also died and they acknowledge the only way to survive is to barricade everything in front of the storefront. One of the store supervisors watches the entire front of the store's large glass windows. Ollie, being the store's supervisor, organizes all of the dog food and fertilizer to be stacked up. The wall is only five feet tall and the remaining three feet of glass is exposed.

Since the moment that they've been caught up in the store, the public has been split into two groups. One group follows David and Ollie and believes that they must barricade the doorway and survive until help comes. The second group, regardless, listens to an intensely religious woman, Ms. Carmody, who assumes that God has sent down his afflictions and wrath upon their town and the world for their sins. Ms. Carmody gradually persuades many people that God is angry at the sins of the world and has seen down monsters and demons in the mist to claim all those are not decent of redemption. She cries out that she's a righteous follower of God and that anyone who wants to be saved should hear her words and scripture. David and several others are persuaded that this is not a biblical hardship and that it can be rationally worked out.

Both groups don't have a chance to argue that night though, as giant, two-foot-long insects begin landing on the windows of the storefront. The insects, though, are not the problem; it's the giant six-foot pterodactyl-like predator birds that are now colliding into the windows that are shocking. The birds are killing the insects, but whenever a bird crashes into an insect resting on a window, they cracks further. Eventually, a bird shatters a window cleanly, letting several insects soar through the window. The insects attack and prick a woman, who is the love interest of one of the military personnel, Private Jessup, and she later dies of the poison. The people utilize shovels, rakes, and sticks to overthrow and slaughter the insects, but two large bird creatures, too, enter the store. The first bird kills a man instantly upon coming into the store, and is in turn, killed by being set on fire. The other bird is shot by Ollie who wields a six-shooter pistol. The fire used to kill the bird, though, also harshly scorches a man. He is burned so badly that he says that the pain is unbearable, and begs to be killed so end his suffering. David and those attending to the burn victim tell him to hang on a little longer.

David and his group set out to outside go to a nearby drugstore in the shopping plaza to retrieve burn medication, antibiotics, and anesthetics for the burn victim. Jessup sees the group vacating the store and volunteers. On the mission, they locate the Military Policeman who called the three military soldiers on leave to return to duty. The MP has been strung up in a spider web and has big throbbing sores covering his body. Coughing and stuttering, he says that everything is their fault and that the military is accountable. The sores on his body then open up to disclose live spiders thriving inside of them. David and his group see the basis of the smaller spiders, several large three-foot-long spiders, and begin to retreat back to the grocery store. The large spiders have claws and fangs but also shoot acidic webbing. One man dies from the webbing burning through his jeans and flesh, eventually bleeding to death. The other victim is surrounded and attacked by spiders and killed.

David and his group make it back to the store and ask the trooper who came with them on the mission what the MP meant by it is the military's responsibility. Jessup says his two other soldiers who are in the store can illustrate it reasonably, but the group discovers that the two other soldiers have committed suicide by hanging themselves in the loading docks. Jessup then discloses that all he comprehends is that scientists had established a way to open up doorways to other worlds and dimensions and they called it Project Arrowhead. This is all indicated to the remaining survivors in the store. Ms. Carmody says that the portal was hell and that now they are expending for the soldiers' mistakes. She demands that the remaining soldier be offered for his sins, for bringing these monsters here. She says that God requires his blood. The soldier begs that he was just a lowly soldier and the scientists are the ones who did all of the experimenting. Ms. Carmody exclaims that they have tampered with God's power, they have split His atoms, used His stem cells, and allowed abortions and now those accountable must suffer. The butcher, Mr. Mackey, who has sided with her, thrusts and stabs the soldier three times in the stomach. To David and his group's horror, the soldier is thrown out through the front door to the outside. Bleeding and alive, he begs to be let back inside. A massive monster approaches the store, grabs the soldier, and kills him. The monster leaves and Ms. Carmody says that it has been appeased tonight, but more people must be offered up someday.

Ms. Carmody's biblical wordage became vigorous and systematic. She starts talking commandingly about a human sacrifice. David gathers several people, to accompany him, because he aspires to to break out of the store and see if he can drive through the mist and find a place where it is not there. David, his son, Ollie, and six others agree that in a couple of nights, they will leave after stockpiling food and supplies under the influence of Ms. Carmody and her group. The night of the departure, Ms. Carmody captures them before they can leave and summons everyone else in the store to avert them from leaving. David tells her to move, but she disagrees by saying that not only can David not leave the store, but that David's son Billy, must be the next sacrifice. David and Ollie are drawn nearby several men armed with knives. Ollie doesn't hesitate, though, and opens fire on Ms. Carmody with his pistol. He shoots her in the stomach, astonishing her followers, and then he executes her with a bullet to the forehead, completely horrifying them, and causing them to back off. Ollie points the gun at the knife-wielding men, compelling them to withdraw, and signals for David and the group to make a break for it. On their way out, a furious woman, who was a very ardent follower and seemed to have had a very close friendship with Mrs. Carmody, screams at Ollie, calling him a murderer, and approaches the group, intent on killing Billy herself in order to avenge Mrs. Carmody, but runs off in terror when Ollie points the gun at her.

David and the group get outside and run for David's SUV. Myron drops and is assisted by Ambrose and Ollie. Myron and Ambrose are attacked and killed by spiders and Bud runs back to the market and is welcomed inside. Ollie reaches the SUV first but is killed by the tremendous creature that killed the soldier from before. David, his son Billy, a woman, the original man who warned of the creatures in the mist, and an older woman, finally, make it into the SUV. David, before driving away, sees the gun that Ollie dropped and grabs it off the hood of his car while a giant spider climbs on the car. David starts the car and drives by the front of the store, while the survivors, who heeded Ms. Carmody, have now come back to reality and realized what they had done, watching him drive by.

David, his son, and the three others move through the mist for hours looking for help or a sign of evidence until The SUV runs out of gas. On the ride, they first stop at David's house, where he sees his wife's lifeless remains in a spider web. On the main roads, they see tons of cars that have been capsized, a school bus full of webbed children, and tons of detritus and roadside damage. While driving, they even encounter the largest creature in the film, a tremendous six-legged monster surrounded by thousands of smaller creatures and tentacles that are the size of several large buildings and are so high that only its legs can be seen as its head is well above the trees. With the SUV out of gas, they pull over. They have not been able to deport the mist. With Billy asleep, David pulls out the gun and nods in quiet agreement with the other members of the group. David says that there are solely four bullets, not enough to kill all of them, and David will remain alive and allow the creatures to kill him, saying that he will figure something out.

Four gunshots are heard and four flashes of light are articulated from the car. David exits the car screaming for the monsters to come get him. He has shot and killed his eight-year-old son, and the three other survivors, and is now staying for his own death. A large rumbling noise emerges in the distance, something is approaching David. Yelling and appealing to die, a monster does not reveal itself in the mist. Instead, it is a U.S. military tank. In fact, it is a full military squadron. Tanks, soldiers with flame throwers and rifles, and truckloads of survivors are now transiting on the road. Some of the survivors are from the grocery store and one of them is the one woman who left by herself, who is completely unharmed and has her two children with her. Finding out that he just killed his son and three innocent people only moments before they would have been saved and that they should have never vacated the market in the first place, David descents and two soldiers approach him, unaware of what he has just done.

Deaths[]

Parking Lot Dude - Something in the mist! - 12 mins in
Norm - Leg & neck ripped open, something in the mist! - 27 mins in
Norton - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Silas - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Other Guy #1 - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Other Guy #2 - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Other Guy #3 - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Other Guy #4 - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Other Guy #5 - Something in the mist! _(presumably) - 52 mins in
Biker Dude - Torn in half by something in the mist! - 53 mins in _{(body seen)}
Tom - Neck ripped out by Pterry - 1 hr 2 mins in
Sally - Poisoned by mist bug sting - 1 hr 2 mins in
Hattie - Suicide via pill overdose - 1 hr 9 mins in
Pharmacy Patron #1 - Bodies seen cocooned in spider webs - 1 hr 20 mins in
Pharmacy Patron #2 - Bodies seen cocooned in spider webs - 1 hr 20 mins in
Pharmacy Patron #3 - Bodies seen cocooned in spider webs - 1 hr 20 mins in
Pharmacy Patron #4 - Bodies seen cocooned in spider webs - 1 hr 20 mins in
M. P. Officer - Infested with eggs, burst into baby spiders - 1 hr 23 mins in
Mike - Sprayed in face w/ acid web, eaten - 1 hr 23 mins in
Bobby - Died from acid web wound on leg - 1 hr 24 mins in
Joe - Died offscreen from earlier burns - 1 hr 26 mins in _{(news of death)}
Pvt. Morales - Suicide via hanging - 1 hr 29 mins in _{(body found)}
Pvt. Donaldon - Suicide via hanging - 1 hr 29 mins in _{(body found)}
Pvt. Jessup - Eaten by Acklay creatures - 1 hr 34 mins in
Mrs. Carmody - Shot in stomach and head by Ollie - 1 hr 40 mins in
Myron - Face eaten by mist spider - 1 hr 41 mins in
Ollie - Torn in half by Acklay creature - 1 hr 41 mins in
Ambrose - Killed offscreen by a buncha spiders - 1 hr 42 mins in
Stephanie Drayton - Body found cocooned in spider webs - 1 hr 45 mins in _{(body found)}
Girl on bus - Body seen cocooned in spider webs - 1 hr 47 mins in _{(body found)}
Billy - Mercy killed by David via shot to head - 1 hr 53 mins in
Amanda - Mercy killed by David via shot to head - 1 hr 53 mins in
Irene - Mercy killed by David via shot to head - 1 hr 53 mins in
Dan - Mercy killed by David via shot to head - 1 hr 53 mins in

Non-counted Deaths[]

John Lee Frovin - Dragged into mist by unseen creature (Mentioned by Dan)

Trivia[]

This is the first 2007 movie covered on the Kill Count.
This was the Kill Count with the most amount of deaths (with 34) until Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) got that award (with 40 deaths).
This is the third kill count that covers a movie from Stephen King.
This is the fourth "one-off" Kill Count James did.
This was the first Kill Count to not include the window curtain background in the thumbnail.
This was the longest Kill Count (at 16:51) until Alien Resurrection (1997) KILL COUNT got that award (with 18:19).