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I Swear I Have Seen This Movie Before!

posted 8 years ago by jackbax-94771
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This movie seems evar so familiar to me, although they say it's from 2007. The ending... The end scene where David stands next to the car, in total amazement when the tanks arrive and the mist clears... That sequence seems so damn familiar.

I swear by God, I've seen it before... On VHS rental (Say WHAT?!) way back in the mid 90's. So now I keep racking my brain over the fact that I may indeed have seen it before, in perhaps an alternate title or version.

The only differences were, that when the mist arrives, the population (knowing Project 'Arrowhead' went askew and NO storm) in the parking lot, starts to panic and tries to get home in a frenzy in their cars, causing fender benders and leaving behind numerous seriously wounded and dead in the parking lot. There's also a children packed school bus crashing into one of the monsters in the mist (arthropod mantis monster), which is then picked up and thrown aside.

When the other-worldy monsters arrive... The ones left behind in the parking lot are the first food they encounter, hearing them shriek and scream as they are torn to shreds and eaten, whilst the others seek shelter in the known store wondering in fear what the heck came over them.

Also more and different monsters kill more people.

Now you may call me crazy... But in the end... David shoots even himself while totally unnecessary, leaving the watcher in a "WFT?" state.

Does anyone recall this??? I'm looking for alternate versions now... but haven't found one yet.

[–] malley321 8 years ago

There's definitely never been another adaptation of this movie, and the ending here is actually unique to the movie and wasn't in the book, so it wouldn't likely be in any hypothetical earlier version anyway. I did a Google search and can't find any movie matching your description. Maybe it was a TV show episode? You have me intrigued now.

[–] jackbax-94771 8 years ago

It wasn't a TV show... I watched it with my partner... Back in the 90's we were really hooked on movies and rented video's like there was no tomorrow. We've seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert LOL... and Stephen King was one of our favorites. Langoliers, The Shining, Christine... we've seen it. We were Binge watching even way before they invented the term.

I am sure it must have been an alternate title on VHS... Because when I saw the DVD cover I went "Hey,I know this one already, good flick, I'll watch it again"...

Watching it I noticed that scenes were altered or cut.

[–] debunkerboy 8 years ago

Been on this board and researched thee film since 2007 and never heard of any other versions or anything like you describe - my theory is that you are remembering a dream but I am also intrigued that something else is out there that was similar enough that you unconsciously filled in details from Mist and conflated two different stories.

[–] speculator-1 8 years ago

It doesn't sound familiar.
Can you remember anyone who was in it?

If it was 1980s low-budget straight-to-video stuff then it probably used animatronics or bluescreen. Should be easy enough to narrow it down if we have a few more pointers.

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[–] jackbax-94771 8 years ago

Who was in it? Well Tomas Jane of course, Toby Jones as Ollie and Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs Carmody...

This was not some cheap 80's direct-to-video horror flick, but a well shot and written out movie with all the trimmings. This was simply "The Mist" with a different -"WTF that wasn't necessary?"- ending on a VHS cassette...

Back in the early to mid 90's "King movies" were pretty popular in the rental ciruit. Titles such as "Thinner, Langoliers, The Stand and some more titles..." They were all available on VHS...

[–] speculator-1 8 years ago

Well, since it couldn't have been them then @Debunkerboy is right, you're confabulating two different movies.

The other one could be an episode of some TV anthology show or something, like @Malley321 said.

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[–] debunkerboy 8 years ago

Who was in it? Well Tomas Jane of course, Toby Jones as Ollie and Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs Carmody...

This was not some cheap 80's direct-to-video horror flick, but a well shot and written out movie with all the trimmings. This was simply "The Mist" with a different -"WTF that wasn't necessary?"- ending on a VHS cassette...

Back in the early to mid 90's "King movies" were pretty popular in the rental ciruit. Titles such as "Thinner, Langoliers, The Stand and some more titles..." They were all available on VHS...

Since this is clearly impossible you must be sub-consciously mixing up the Mist with something else that came before it, perhaps The Fog. The Fog has a very similar name and a similar general premise about a fog coming in off the water which is hiding bad things which will kill you.

[–] jackbax-94771 8 years ago

I have seen The Fog... and it ends way different than The Mist... I'm talking other worldly monsters here. Not zombie pirates wreaking havoc on the local radio station, lighthouse and church.

[–] speculator-1 8 years ago

The FAQ says the story was published in 1980 and the audio version came out in 84. Maybe there was an unauthorized pastiche sometime in the early 1990s under a different title.
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[–] jackbax-94771 8 years ago

I'm still diggin' the net for info's... Up to now I found zilch. But... Your reply might make people scratch the back of their heads, and something might turn up.

You know... It's the last few minutes of the movie, where the soldiers appear and the tanks arrive... Also my immediate reaction to the DVD on first sight "I know this one already, it was good" made me think. Why would I utter those words at all for a new movie? Give me a reason for saying those words cuz I can't think of one. 

[–] debunkerboy 8 years ago

There are possible reasons. Those reasons may seem unlikely to you but compared to the alternative one of them must be true.

Darabont wrote the ending in the film. All previous versions of the Mist (book, audio) used King's very different ending. If there is Darabont's version somehow miraculously duplicated in the past and actually released on VHS then Darabont is a thief and not even King knew of it, because he praised Darabont for thinking up the new ending.

How could you have had that thought? The ending was pretty obvious. Lot of people saw it coming. Maybe you just intuited the ending sequence because of the way it was set up. Since you also had this suspicion that you had seen this all before you could easily have assumed your intuition was actually a memory. The brain has all sorts of tricks like that.
It is also possible someone had told you about the end and you just forgot about it until it started to dimly resonate.

Slightly similar thing is that story recently that a lot of people actually remember Sinbad playing the role of Shazzam, but it was Shaq, not Sinbad. They actually have a memory- the brain does construct false memories and they feel like actual memories, virtually indistinguishable.

[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

very well put. i would like to add another remotely related example. many people were 100% sure, that they once have seen a version of the tom hanks movie "big", where after he has become a child again, his adult love interest became a girl again, so that she could be with him.

in reality though, they are mixing it up with the film "14 going on 30" that came out around the same time and had a similar theme.

[–] myystk (374) 7 years ago

yes i remember that ending about the girl. i was loosing my mind, thinking that was BIG...

[–] steveinstantnewman 8 years ago

Maybe you're losing your mind?

[–] aristide (265) 7 years ago

Do you remember the berestein or berestain bears?

[–] Kajohns49 8 years ago

I know this is an old thread but there is (was?) a video game based on the novella, by Steven King, called "Half Life", which is what this film is based on.
Just an idea that I didn't see mentioned in any of the other replies.

[–] debunkerboy 8 years ago

That game was only very loosely inspired by The Mist. Only similarity is that a government facility opens up a portal and strange creatures come through. That's about it. No Drayton, no car in the mist, no grocery store, no military rescue etc.