Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: THE MIST

Episode Date: July 30, 2021

There's something in the mist and thank god Henley isn't here to find out how to escape it! Join us for the recap of this utterly devastating creature/monster flick. Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fm The Mist is available to rent on VODSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, bonus episode number two for the month of July. Ooh baby, here we July. Ooh, baby. Here we are. We've arrived. And you guys helped us pick our bonus episode for this second bonus episode of July. And we were doing a little theme of creatures and monsters.

Threw a little poll up on the Patreon. And you picked The the mist which is an excellent choice and i'm very excited to talk about it i'm very excited to hear about it what do you know about it emily almost nothing like maybe literally nothing great creatures are involved i would imagine that's a safe safe say. And there's a lot of mist. I love fog. How do you feel about fog, Sammy? I also love fog.

I love most weather other than wind. If it's too windy. Yes, I hate wind. I don't like it. I hate wind. Wow. It gets stuff blown in your face and your hair just gets all

blown around and it's like the air is really dry and sometimes it makes your ears hurt I hate wind um but I like

mist I like fog um it's I like how like moody it is and often if it's misty

and foggy it's like very calm outside. And I imagine that's not totally the case in what I'm about to hear. Yeah, I was going to say. I'm sure I have positive associations with mist. Yeah, we'll see if that remains the case post hearing about this movie.

Got to say that this is one of Jenna's favorite movies. She has been trying to get us to do this one for a long time, so she's very thrilled that we're doing it now. So thank you to everybody for picking it from Jenna. XO from Jenna.

XO, Jenna. I don't even know. Yeah, I don't know when it came out. I don't know who's in it. Is it Stephen King? No. Yes? No. Yes! Okay. Yeah, okay. So let me tell you about it. It came out in 2007. It is written and directed by Frank Darabont based on a novella by Stephen King. A novella! A novella. I always laugh. What does a novella by King mean? Like, so 400 pages?

Yeah, just like a regular book. Yeah, just a regular book where the font is like so small you need a magnifying glass no it's a novella it's a novella look how small it is teeny tiny um it is starring thomas jane of deep blue sea fame uh marcia gay harden laurie holden andre brower toby jones william sad Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Francis Sternhagen. That's a pretty good cast and everyone's pretty good in it. I mean. Did you say what year it came out? Sorry.

2007. Oh, that's more recent than I thought. Yeah. I thought this was like 90s. Yeah, I kind of did too, but 2007. Okay. Frank Darabont is the guy that did The Walking Dead. Oh, okay. The Walking

Dead. I feel like I put the emphasis. The Walking Dead. You got the wrong part there. And so a lot of this cast is will return and collaborate with him again in The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead. That's cool. The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead.

That's cool. The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead. And it is available to rent right now for $3.99 most places and $3.80 on Amazon. What? So if you want a little discount. Save 19 cents, baby. Thanks, Jeff.

He did one good thing. Yeah, he did one good thing. He did one good thing. He cut off 19 cents on the price of the mist. Some trivia for us. Stephen King says that he was genuinely frightened by this adaptation of his novella. And Frank Darabont described that as the happiest moment of his career. That's got to be pretty fun, I guess. Yeah.

I turned your thing into something that scared you. I would love to scare Stephen King. Me too. Let's find out where he lives. What I mean is I just want to spook him. Let's go spook Stephen King. During an action scene in the film, a man runs into a wire rotating bookshelf in the grocery store. And if you look carefully,

you can clearly see that all the books on the shelf are written by Stephen King. Kind of fun. That is fun. And this is the third film that Frank Darabont has adapted from Stephen King's work. The other two are the Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile. So first horror one, I would say.

Yeah, is this very stupid of me that I didn't know that those were Stephen King? No, it is weird that he's also written some completely non-horror things. He also wrote Stand By Me, I believe. Holy shit. Yeah. Wow, I thought he literally only did horror. He does some more drama, and

Green Mile, at least, has some supernatural elements, but I don't think the other two do, but I've never seen any of those. Which is pretty crazy. I would say see Stand By Me if you're going to see any of them.

Not Shawshank. I think Shawshank's a little overrated, personally. But I saw it much later in life. Also, later in life. It's just, for me, I just, I've never wanted to put myself i'm just like do i want to do i want to inhabit that world i don't know that i do i know that it will be emotional and uplifting and blah but sometimes i'm like i just don't want to feel all that yeah i really like the green mile i'd say that would be my second one but i haven't seen that wow folks

you heard it here first sammy hates shawshank redemption i don't know why i just didn't i didn't like it that much i mean i liked it but i'm like i love it i won't be seeing it again wow unless someone like really sits me down and is like you must have really missed it the first time you watched it and you have to watch it again have to watch it then maybe but interesting i feel like once was enough for me wow um oh and then yeah so jeffrey de munn melissa mcbride laurie holden juan gabriel pareja sherry dvorek sam wit Witwer, and Tiffany Morgan are all actors that are in this that then will appear in The Walking Dead. Cool.

Thomas Jane was the first actor that Frank Darabont sent the script to. I imagine he was a huge Deep Blue Sea fan. And he also wanted Thomas Jane to play Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead. Whoa. Which I guess I could see it. Why not? I wonder why he said no. That's like a huge role that he must have turned down.

Yeah, man. If he said no, he's regretting it. I bet he's kicking himself for that. I got to look at what Thomas Jane looks like right now. I think Thomas Jane is dating Anne Heche. That's interesting. He is. You're right.

Oh, I could see. Yeah, I could see it. I haven't seen The Walking Dead, to be fair, but he's got that. You know what I mean? Andrew Lincoln has just I mean, you know, when someone is the character, it becomes hard to picture someone else as the character. So I feel like Andrew Lincoln is a very good Rick Grimes, but I fell off The Walking Dead. I watched the first few seasons and it just keeps going and going.

Oh, Andrew Lincoln. I like his face. Like I was about to be like, he's hot. And he is. But what I really actually mean is I just I like his face. OK. You know what I mean? I do.

Some people have like faces that are just nice to look at. His face is pleasing to my eyes. OK, I'm sorry. This is not relevant. I'm looking up Andrew Lincoln. Did you know that his birth name is not Andrew Lincoln? Do you know what his birth name is? Tell me.

I don't know if I can even say it. It's not that funny, but it just really shocked me. His name is Andrew James... Andrew James Clutterbuck Clutterbuck How is the last name Clutterbuck? What is that?

That's very funny. Shook. Clutterbuck. How do you say that? Clutterbuck. Clutterbuck. Andrew Clutterbuck. Andrew Clutterbuck. How do you say that? Clutterbuck. Clutterbuck. Andrew Clutterbuck. Andrew Clutterbuck. Wow. Oh, my God. That really shocked me. I'm sorry. I just saw the word Clutterbuck. Just look at it written sometime in for the editing process because he was interested to learn about it. And as an editor, that just really stresses me out. I hate people watching me edit more than anything. Especially when you're watching someone edit yourself. Like, you're obviously going to have opinions about like, oh, no, use this one or like oh you know like that's yeah but i guess thomas jane was about to embark on his directorial debut and so he wanted to learn the process and the editors said that he was a delight to have in the editing room so i guess he wasn't a a dick about it which would

be pretty crazy but it'd be crazy to request to be in the room and then make it awful for everyone anyways um and this just made me laugh this is frank darabont's shortest film to date or at least whenever this trivia was written i don't know maybe it's had a shorter one since then but this movie is two hours and nine minutes long so oh buddy you got to do shorter that's not you can't this being the shortest one but i guess it makes makes sense that Shawshank and Green Mile are also very long. That rings a bell. Right, yeah. That also is probably why I've always just been like, no. It's so much to ask.

It's so much. If you're over two hours and 15 minutes, I'm like almost never going to watch your movie because I have to start early enough that it's like. I'm not going to start a three hour movie at nine o'clock. That's madness. That's insane. That's why you're never going to watch Magnolia. It's so long. Oh God, but I got to see that tiny ponytail.

I mean, Tom Cruise is magnificent in it, but it is one that I had on VHS and it was a two VHS movie. Now that being said, I have seen the extended editions of Lord of the Rings more than once, so what the fuck am I talking about? But, you know.

Just a different kind of vibe. It's different when it's like fantasy action. Yeah. And I think that we should save the trailer for the end because I think going into this blind is going to be more fun. Okay, that's fun.

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