Castle Rock Entertainment Archives

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Rating: ★

Dec 18, 2011Reversion to Barbarism

Remake of William Golding’s classic work about boys stranded on a desert island descending into barbarism where the book is disastrously Americanised in a clodding adaptation that misses the original’s rich swim of symbolism

Director: Harry Hook

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Bob Peck

Category: Science Fiction

18 December 201123 February 2026 by Roog

The Spirit of 76 (1990)

Rating: ★★

Aug 6, 1999Time Travel/1970s Retro Comedy

Clearly an attempt to copy the success of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, this is a comedy with time travellers visiting the 1970s. Lots of 70s pop culture and faces without any of it being funny

Director: Lucas Reiner

Actors: David Cassidy, Olivia D'Abo, Geoff Hoyle, Leif Garrett, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 August 199923 March 2026 by Roog

Misery (1990)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 23, 2026Writer Imprisoned by a Psycho Fan/Stephen King Adaptation

A classic Stephen King adaptation from Rob Reiner with writer James Caan imprisoned by psycho fan Kathy Bates, who gives a terrifying performance that won her an Academy Award

Director: Rob Reiner

Actors: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, …

Category: Horror

23 March 202623 March 2026 by Roog

Late for Dinner (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 2, 2000Cryogenic Sleepers Awake in the Present

A thoughtful and well-written Cryogenic Sleepers Awake film that charts the culture shock experienced by two men frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in the present day

Director: W.D. Richter

Actors: Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Wimmer, Colleen Flynn, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 August 200021 June 2026 by Roog

Needful Things (1993)

Rating: ★★

Aug 8, 2000The Devil Stirs up a Small Town/Stephen King Adaptation

Anodyne adaptation of a weaker Stephen king novel about a curio shop that sells objects that cause people to become obsessed and in so doing wreaks havoc throughout a small town

Director: Fraser C. Heston

Actors: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh, …

Category: Horror

8 August 200023 March 2026 by Roog

North (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 26, 1999Fabulist Adventure

Likeable absurdist fable from Rob Reiner with Elijah Wood as a boy searching the world for perfect parents. With Bruce Willis as the Easter Bunny

Director: Rob Reiner

Actors: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Jason Alexander, …

Category: Fantasy

26 December 199922 January 2025 by Roog

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Rating: ★

Sep 5, 2002Dracula Parody

Mel Brooks had a huge hit with Young Frankenstein, an affectionate spoof of the Universal Frankenstein films. Two decades on he returns to do the same for the Dracula film but with far more scattershot results.

Director: Mel Brooks

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNichol, Steven Weber, Mel Brooks, …

Category: Horror

5 September 200223 March 2026 by Roog

Extreme Measures (1996)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 23, 2000Illicit Medical Experiments

Solid and effective thriller in the vein of Coma where ER doctor Hugh Grant finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy involving illicit medical experiments at the hospital where he works

Director: Michael Apted

Actors: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 September 200031 January 2026 by Roog

Hamlet (1996)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 14, 2004Shakespeare Adaptation/Ghosts and Madness

Kenneth Branagh emerged as an director with his dynamic cinematic Shakespeare adaptations. In this lavish production, he attempts no less than a definitive version of what is regarded as Shakespeare's greatest play

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers, …

Category: Fantasy

14 August 200424 March 2026 by Roog

The Green Mile (1999)

Rating: ★★

Dec 24, 1999Miracle-Healing Death Row Inmate/Stephen King Addaptation

Frank Darabont had a hit with the Stephen King adaptation The Shawshank Redemption. Here he makes another King adaptation about a Death Row inmate with healing powers

Director: Frank Darabont

Actors: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, Doug Hutchinson, David Morse, …

Category: Fantasy

24 December 19995 July 2026 by Roog

Lost Souls (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 13, 2000Demonic Possession

Steven Spielberg's regular cinematographer Janusz Kaminski takes the director's chair and conducts a modest and effective revival of the 1970s occult/Anti-Christ film

Director: Janusz Kaminski

Actors: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt, John Diehl, …

Category: Horror

13 October 200023 March 2026 by Roog

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Rating: ★★

Sep 29, 2001Clairvoyance/Stephen King Adaptation

Another in the spate of serious Stephen King adaptations that seeks to avoid the horror label. Although psychic powers do feature, this is more of a wistful 1960s Coming of Age story

Director: Scott Hicks

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boreem, …

Category: Fantasy

29 September 20015 July 2021 by Roog

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

Rating: ★★

Apr 1, 2003Lunar Comedy-Thriller

Huge flop comedy for Eddie Murphy in which he plays a nightclub owner on The Moon. There is an almost good SF film hiding inside and depiction of a surprisingly detailed Lunar culture but the unnfunny comedy elements kill it

Director: Ron Underwood

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid, Joe Pantoliano, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 April 200311 November 2025 by Roog

Murder By Numbers (2002)

Rating: ★★

Sep 14, 2002Forensic Psychology Thriller

Thriller with Sandra Bullock as a burned-out detective investigating two teenagers who have decided to commit a murder as an experiment in amorality

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, …

Category: Horror

14 September 200218 February 2021 by Roog

Dreamcatcher (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 27, 2003Alien Body Snatchers/Stephen King Adaptation

Lawrence Kasdan directs an adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a group of men on a weekend get together in the woods who find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Actors: Thomas Jane, Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 April 200323 March 2026 by Roog