The Mist Has One of the Most Messed Up Endings in Horror History
The Mist is one of my favorite monster horror films of all time. I had watched this movie with my family, and once the ending came around, we were all in absolute shock with that ballsy ending. The Mist was originally a novel written by Stephen King, and while I love the book, the ending in my opinion, is far better in the film.
The story centers around a father and his son, who go to the grocery store, not realizing that their lives are about to change for the worst. Several townspeople in the store notice a white mist heading straight toward the town, and everyone near the grocery store takes refuge inside. The town learns that monsters reside within the mist, and whoever dares to stumble upon the mist, will meet a gruesome fate.
It was confirmed that some kind of government experiment was taking place, and the soldiers opened up a portal to another world, that consists of the mist, filled with monsters.
The movie and book are similar when it comes to the story, mostly taking place inside of the store, and the insane desperate measures the people do to survive. The endings between both the novel and the movie are so different, and while they are both effective, the ending to the movie feels like you just got punched in the stomach.
The father, his son, and three other survivors escape from the grocery store, after one particular woman in the town attempted to turn the people in the store against them. They escape from the store, and leave in a vehicle from the chaos, into the mist. The group drive for miles, finding nothing but more mist, and monsters in their wake.
The car eventually runs out of gas, and the group comes to a horrible decision, realizing there is only one way to escape their fates of getting killed by a monster. The father pulls out a gun with four bullets, and right when his son wakes up in the arms of a friend, he kills everyone in the vehicle, except for himself. The father is broken, and he runs out of the car, yelling at the monsters to come for him.
Instead of the beasts coming to kill him, a tank emerges from the mist, being driven by the soldiers. They had found a way to defeat the mist, and they kill the monsters that stand in their way. The father also sees a truck filled with survivors, including one woman that had left the store in search of her children. The father screams in misery as some soldiers watch in confusion as his whole world shatters.
That is one of the most cutthroat endings I have seen in a horror movie.
It's so vicious, knowing that if the father had waited a couple of minutes more, he could have prevented losing his son and his new allies.
I believe that the message of the film was losing your humanity.
From the disturbing events that take place in the store by the madwoman, it's awful that these people who were going to kill the father's son in a sort of sick ritual to save themselves from the mist, were most likely saved by the soldiers in the end. The ones were truly deserved to survive from this horrific ordeal, were the ones who each met an awful fate.
That ending got to me so bad, and I became so emotional when the movie ended with hope…but not for the father. I couldn't get over the soldiers watching him as they walked past, disposing of the monsters. I wouldn't doubt they had already witnessed so much carnage in their wake, but they were there on a mission, to rid the world of their mistake.
And that poor father was one of the few that suffered greatly for it.
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