Stephen King the Mist Immensely Creepy Crawl Skin

Stephen King's new movie, "The Mist", premiered the day before Thanksgiving on November 21. Please don't confuse "The Mist" as a remake of John Carpenter's flop called "The Fog" because "The Mist" promises to make one squirm uncomfortably with the creepy crawlies.

Stephen King's movie, "The Mist", is based on a short story that was made specifically for stereo headphone listening. A characterization of the audio play as a 'book on tape' would be a misnomer for the half hour long cassette tape because it is not a simple narration. "The Mist : In 3-D Sound" is a 1984 cassette tape performed by a full dramatic cast with surround sound special effects which engulf your imagination. With stereo headphones on, the woman running and screaming from your right ear to you left ear, embeds the listener within the midst of horror and dread of the story itself.

It's hard to decide which element of the story is scarier, the psychological horror of people's reactions to a crisis, or the thought of every day invisible no-see-um bugs that have grown to gigantic size and feed on humans. It is the reverse of the comedy movie "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" because it's a lot more creepier to imagine the creepy crawlies getting bigger, rather than shrinking down to size to make ordinary bugs seem immense.

People have bugs all inside and throughout the entire body, Demodex mites have adapted to live within the hair follicle shafts. Humans beings would be unable to live without the help of the intestinal flora within our guts but bacteria is not classified as a plant, animal, or fungi.

The largest insect today is the Goliath beetle which can grow up to lengths of four and a half inches, but the Goliath would be of trivial size compared to the biggest bug ever know to have existed in the world. A colossal fossil from a giant sea scorpion's claw has been recently discovered in Germany and is estimated have had a body length of eight feet. Other fossils record behemoth bugs of enormous sizes. Imagine the dread of facing a prehistoric colossal cockroach or a Spiny Assassin Bug towering over you and this scenario would fit right in with King's horror movie, "The Mist".

It has been theorized that the lack of oxygen in today's atmosphere is the only thing that is limiting the size of insects making the 'experiment gone wrong' movie plot of "The Mist" plausible and believable - and that much more scary.

The fog could be made of one third oxygen similar to the atmosphere that supported huge gigantic insects millions of years ago. Oxygen euphoria could also be a plausible reason for the ensuing irrational behavior exhibited by the trapped humans. Normal air contains twenty-one percent oxygen at sea level. "Humans can live normally for seven days with elevated oxygen levels." [scuba-doc]

Even the fleas have fleas. Although I listened to the "The Mist : In 3-D Sound" long ago, I can still picture the imaginative description of the towering daddy long legs so immense, that only the lower legs could be seen in the thick fog, and on those legs were smaller unknown bugs.