Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week, we are going to be examining Frank Darabond's 2007 adaptation of the short story contained within the publication's

skeleton crew, that short story adaptation, of course, being The Mist.

So I wanted to start off with a quote from one of the characters in the movie that I think

just sums up the entire movie.

I'd rather die out there trying than in here waiting.

That's pretty much just the odds that the characters have to overcome in this movie.

So those of you who haven't seen this movie, I think they should go out and do it.

It's done very, very well.

For those of you who don't know, Frank Deribont is the guy that popularized the walking dead um you know

i mean chances are if you're listening to the podcast you know that and you know what the walking

dead is but by chance if you don't know what the walking dead is um it's it's a smash hit

smash hit sorry this is a supposed to be an explicit free podcast on iTunes,

but it's a smash hit AMC show about zombies and survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.

And of course, Frank Deribont is no stranger to uh to stephen king having uh directed the shawshank redemption and the green mile

this is something that he wanted to do uh he kind of he's wanted to do just a straight up stephen king

traditional i guess what we would call stephen king's story. And I loved it.

I think that he did an incredible job with it.

And so I was really excited to pop it in and watch it.

And just so you know, I was watching the black and white version of this movie.

So if you're not aware, if you go and you get either the DVD or the Blu-ray, it should

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