Frank Darabont Archives

A Nightmare on Elm Street III: The Dream Warriors (1987)

Rating: ★★

Jul 29, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man

The point where Robert Englund's Freddy went from a boogeyman into the equivalent of Wile E. Coyote, popping up like a malevolent jack-in-a-box to quip a one-liner and dispatch victims

Director: Chuck Russell

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Craig Wasson, …

Category: Horror

29 July 20025 July 2026 by Roog

The Blob (1988)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 6, 2000Monster Movie

The original 1958 The Blob gets a full makeover via some sensational state-of-the-art animatronics and makeup effects with impressive results. A much superior work to the original in all ways

Director: Chuck Russell

Actors: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Joe Seneca, Donovan Leitch, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 August 200025 May 2026 by Roog

The Fly II (1989)

Rating: ★★

Dec 16, 2001Human-Fly Hybrid

Sequel to the David Cronenberg remake of The Fly directed by that film’s effects creator Chris Walas. This reduces Cronenberg’s obsessive bodily transformation film into just another monster on the loose tale

Director: Chris Walas

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Gary Chalk, John Getz, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

16 December 200124 October 2025 by Roog

Buried Alive (1990)

Rating: ★★

Jan 14, 2020Burial Alive and Revenge Scheme

The directorial debut from Frank Darabont who went on to make The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist. A wife and her lover plot to kill husband off by poisoning him only for him to survive and plot an elaborate revenge scheme

Director: Frank Darabont

Actors: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton

Category: Horror

14 January 20206 July 2022 by Roog

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

Rating: ★★

May 8, 2000Frankenstein Adaptation

An adaptation of Frankenstein made as companion piece to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Kenneth Branagh creates a lush production but the attempts to emulate Coppola's sensuality go awry

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, …

Category: Horror

8 May 20008 July 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

The Mist (2007)

Rating: ★★★★

May 25, 2009Creatures in the Fog/Stephen King Adaptation

Frank Darabont delivers one of the best Stephen King adaptations where the story of people at siege in a supermarket from unseen creatures in a mystery fog outside becomes a study in fear and prejudice. With one of the great unforgettable endings

Director: Frank Darabont

Actors: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, …

Category: Horror

25 May 200930 March 2026 by Roog