Reminiscent of (and in moments consciously invoking) The Exterminating Angel– Luis Brunel’s devastating satire, concerning a lavish dinner party after which guests are inexplicably unable to leave, trapped in their host’s music room. The group schisms into magical-thinkers and pragmatists the pressure stultifying and panic-inducing. Like much of King’s work, The Mist affects both pulpy potboiler and societal allegory with all the trappings and hammed-up scares of supernatural genre-fiction, coupled with the tensions of a group of people gradually abandoning behavioral norms. Transporting the action out of the supermarket and redistributing it across multiple locations in the town, the teaser trailer for the TV show features scenes in a church, shopping mall and hotel room – the television reboot appears to offer a more expansive take on the work, while retaining the claustrophobia innate to the novella. A trip to the chemist reveals giant spiders garroting human prey with acidic webs. Four-foot flies with “burnt-flesh” hides and eyes protruding from their heads dive bomb at night. A swarm of digestive tentacles tries to eat them. Remaining inside the supermarket for a couple nights, the novella details this makeshift community’s response to the terrors that ensue.
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