The Mist - Influence in Other Media

Influence in Other Media

• An interactive fiction computer game based on the novella was released by Mindscape in 1985.
• The 1996 tokusatsu series Ultraman Tiga features an episode entitled "The Mist", which uses a plot heavily based on the story, with one character even alluding to its similarities to a "story she once heard".
• Both the games Final Fantasy IX and Legend of Legaia have the mechanism of a Mist that brings monsters out, or in another case, make them crazy and enemies of humans.
• The 2001 film Evolution makes reference to the peterosaur creature that invades the shopping mall, as a similar accident occurs in the film.
• The developers of the Half-Life video game series, which also deals with creatures from parallel dimensions breaking through to ours, have listed The Mist among their primary influences for the game plot. The first game in the series was originally going to be called Quiver, as a reference to the Arrowhead base from The Mist.
• An episode in the kids show Fanboy and Chum Chum, is about four people trapped in a convenience store surrounded by a thick fog, fearing that a monster is outside. Several references are made to the film, including sending someone out with a rope attached to their waist.
• A film version, also titled The Mist, was released in 2007. It was directed by Frank Darabont and starred Thomas Jane.
• The film adaptation was referenced in King's 2009 novel Under the Dome.