History Fridge / TheMist

** Uh... one, I highly doubt anyone would allow their child to be sacrificed without putting up a fight, whether they followed Mrs. Carmody or not. Two, they likely realized that Mrs. Carmody was an insane person who manipulated and duped them and not an invincible prophetess, and were not willing to spill anymore blood. Anyone who still believed her preachings (e.g. the woman who screamed "Murderer!" at Ollie), would have likely been told to shut up. And 3, If anyone was a likely target to be sacrificed in Billy's place, it would have been the store manager. After all, it was HIS employee and HIS buddy who killed her.
*** If you do not believe somebody would allow their child to be sacrificed, you don’t know very much about people.

* We never see what happens to the remaining supermarket survivors after the main character's group drive away. Thus, we never see if the others from Mrs. Carmody's "cult" snap out of their fanaticism once she's dead, or if they rationalize her death as "martyrdom" and continue to embrace her crazy beliefs. Which is a disturbing possibility in the movie, but a ''horrific'' one in the story, because [[spoiler: there's ''another small child'' - a little girl - in the novella's grocery store. Did '''she''' get sacrificed in Billy's place?]]

* Mrs. Carmody has a line, said quietly and easily dismissed as a throwaway, but it drops her and the events she sets into motion into a very scary place. [[spoiler:Specifically, she says "My life for you." To someone not familiar with King's works, this might sound like a simple bit of pious devotion. Except King frequently invokes this phrase to be said by characters following Randall Flagg, King's version of the devil. This puts her AxCrazy cult's creation and actions in a very different and chillingly plausible context.]]

** Worse: they were going in the same direction as the military, but they were too far ahead of the pending rescue.

* The group of survivors we've been following the entire time since leaving the store has been going in the literal opposite direction of the military cleaning things up. They were actively running away from rescue. Also means it is likely the cult like survivors at the store probably were saved hours before the military reached our group of heroes.

* The group of survivors we've been following the entire time since leaving the store has been going in the literal opposite direction of the military cleaning things up. They were actively running away from rescue. Also means it is likely the cult like survivors at the store probably were saved hours before our group of heroes.

* If the cult survived (chances are that they did), then they likely ended up getting away with the murder of Jessup and the attempted murder of an innocent child. After all, apart from Jessup's bloody handprint on the door, there's little to no evidence that either crime took place.

* Mrs. Carmody has a line, said quietly and easily dismissed as a throwaway, but it drops her and the events she sets into motion into a very scary place. [[spoiler:Specifically, she says "My life for you." To someone not familiar with King's works, this might sound like a simple bit of pious devotion. Except King frequently invokes this phrase to be said by characters following Randall Flagg, King's version of the devil. This puts her AxCrazy cult's creation and actions in a very different and chillingly plausible context.]]

* As if being some of the scariest creatures in the Mist wasn't bad enough, the Gray Widowers also seem to be the most likely to come into direct contact with humans. The frequency with which their nests are encountered once the survivors leave the market suggests that they are likely to invade any structure that they can get into. This means that more people probably died to Gray Widowers - an especially horrible fate even by the standards of the Mist monsters - than to any other kind of monster.

* We never see what happens to the remaining supermarket survivors after the main character's group drive away. Thus, we never see if the others from Mrs. Carmody's "cult" snap out of their fanaticism once she's dead, or if they rationalize her death as "martyrdom" and continue to embrace her crazy beliefs. Which is a disturbing possibility in the movie, but a ''horrific'' one in the story, because [[spoiler: there's ''another small child'' - a little girl - in the novella's grocery store. Did '''she''' get sacrificed in Billy's place?]]

** There is always the dim hope that one of the Really Big Things stepped on the store, even if any of the Small or Medium Things didn't somehow get in (that plate glass and those loading bay doors: they can't hold out against accidental perforation forever). Not that that helps the few nice people left behind, there, though.

[[AC:FridgeLogic]]

* While the end seems to suggest "bitter coincidence", the events do line up. The religious nut proposes that the boy be made a human sacrifice, something which is resisted by the sane members of the group. On the road, after the boy and the other members of the group are dead, everything is better. In effect, after the boy - who was proposed to be a sacrifice - dies, the problem goes away.