Inside the store, we meet a mixed bag of locals and weekenders, including Brent Norton ( Andre Braugher), the Draytons' litigious neighbor Mrs. They leave mom behind, which may turn out to be a mistake. When the electric power goes out, David Drayton ( Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy ( Nathan Gamble) drive slowly into town to buy emergency supplies at the supermarket. In "The Mist," based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. Combine (1) a mysterious threat that attacks a town, and (2) a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror movies, from " Night of the Living Dead" (1968) to " 30 Days of Night." All you have to do is choose a new threat and a new place of refuge, and use typecasting and personality traits so we can tell the characters apart.
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