What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back and we have another episode of the Hello

Sydney podcast here, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things

horror and it's me, your girl, Sydney. Welcome back to another Friday, another episode of

Stephen King Month and the movie that we're talking about today. I think is easily the movie with the most devastating ending.

Probably in cinematic history, but especially this month. There is another one that's

kind of devastating. There's actually, damn, Stephen King has some devastating endings,

man. Like if he stuck to killing Tad into Kujo, that would have been absolutely devastating.

The ending of Thinner, which we're talking about next week, I think is devastating. I think the book is

worse. Yeah, the ending of Pet Cemetery was pretty devastating. And, but the crazy thing about this

one, the mist, is Stephen King actually didn't even write this ending. However,

it is historically known as one of the just most gut-wrenching, devastating endings of all time.

I don't even think that just goes for horror cinema. I think that goes for cinema in general,

and it absolutely deserves that title. And we're talking about the mist. And the mist is actually based

on a short story by Stephen King. It was a novella. And it was adapted into a screenplay written

and directed by Frank Darabond. And now there's been times before where I have said that I think

the only person who should be allowed to adapt

Stephen King novels is Mike Flanagan. And I am absolutely wrong in having said that because Frank

Darabont has made the single-handedly greatest adaptations of all time. And that's me saying that

to my Mike. Like, I love you, Mike. But Frank Darabont wrote and directed both Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile, which in the scope of things, my top four favorite movies of all time really aren't even horror movies, but both of those are in there. It's literally like Titanic, Shawshank, Green Mile. And I don't know, maybe Life of Chuck. Life of Chuck is like top

four material. So Mike obviously does a great job as well. But Frank Darabont just makes these

absolute epics and these just like Oscar worthy films from Stephen King adaptation. So the

miss was actually the third novel of his that he, or story of his, that he adapted. And the two of them were actually like personally friends. That's how we even got into this business because the first movie of his that he wanted to make was Shawshank Redemption. And Stephen King thinking, because that was a short story as well, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. He was like, oh, that's not going to go anywhere.

...