Frank Darabont

King on Screen

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world.

Release Date: 2023-08-11

Character: Self

Vote Count: 10

Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead

In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.

Release Date: 2018-02-13

Character: Self

Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Release Date: 2016-07-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 18369

Walking the Mile

Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel.

Release Date: 2014-12-09

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

The Director's Chair

Robert Rodriguez sits down with the industry's most iconic directors and engages in a revealing and unexpected exchange about the world of filmmaking.

Release Date: 2014-05-10

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Mob City

Based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of 1940's Los Angeles, this is the seductive story of the violent crime underbelly of America's most glamorous city and those who wanted to control it.

Release Date: 2013-12-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 76

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

A documentary on legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan.

Release Date: 2013-07-19

Character: Self

Vote Count: 40

Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger

Retrospective on The Nightmare On Elm Street Series.

Release Date: 2012-02-10

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Nightmare Factory

The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents’ chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on to create KNB EFX Group, one of the most prolific makeup effects studios in the world. After twenty years as the “go to guy” for the world’s most successful horror/sci-fi films, Greg Nicotero is the first one directors like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez call.

Release Date: 2011-10-27

Character: Self

Vote Count: 22

Clint Eastwood's West

An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, John Lee Hancock and many more.

Release Date: 2011-07-06

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

The Walking Dead

Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

Release Date: 2010-10-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: (uncredited)

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 17003

The United Monster Talent Agency

A short comedy spoof about Universal Monsters and their everyday unconventional work done at their very own talent agency for their movies.

Release Date: 2010-09-27

Character: Director #1

Vote Count: 14

The Making of The Walking Dead

The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead.

Release Date: 2010-07-31

Character: Self

Vote Count: 153

Tales from the Script

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.

Release Date: 2009-01-10

Character: Self

Vote Count: 38

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

The astonishing story of the genesis, production, worldwide success, and legacy of King Kong (1933), directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, a landmark of cinema, one of the most influential motion pictures in history.

Release Date: 2008-10-11

Character: Self

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dante and many others with a strong focus on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB Make-Up EFX. Written by Kevin VanHook

Release Date: 2008-10-07

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

Release Date: 2008-03-25

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Character: Self

Vote Count: 6

Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'

Whenever a solid "brain trust" around creature assembly exists, then the process behind crafting these monsters must've been interesting. This 13-minute featurette captures the process of crafting the concepts for the monsters, from the models assembled for the primary ideas to the separation of computer and realistic tangible effects. KNB effects did some really strong work here, even in the small ways that purely give actors inspiration for their performances.

Release Date: 2008-03-25

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist

This is a short featurette that features famed poster artist Struzan, made legendary for his beautiful Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Stephen King adaptation posters. Thomas Jane's character became modeled after Struzan, which might be easily identifiable at the start of The Mist.

Release Date: 2008-03-25

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist

This 16-minute featurette focuses on CafeFX, the team behind the CG work in The Mist (as well as Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth). They discuss a wide array of points, from matching models with the KNB creature crew to documentaries that inspired the designs. It's great to see a lot of the work-in-progress materials (grid assembly, texture work, etc), as it helps to appreciate exactly what pops up on screen. Furthermore, it also discusses a lot of the "mist" effects that play off of their environments

Release Date: 2008-03-25

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35

Scene 35 can best be described as the point in which the muck hits the fan. It's a scene with unbridled chaos involving CG effects, creature models, stunts, coordination, dramatic character portrayals ... just about anything that could possibly go wrong in a scene. This feature shows how it came to be, how Darabont infused some last-minute ideas into its assembly, and how it wedged in as one of the stronger parts of The Mist.

Release Date: 2008-03-25

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 1

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.

Release Date: 2007-12-18

Character: Self

Vote Count: 73

Raines

Raines is a crime drama television series focused on Michael Raines, a 'mentally haunted' LAPD detective, who interacts with imaginary manifestations of dead crime victims in order to solve criminal cases. Raines must deal with his unique, unintentional method, as it causes problems with his co-workers and in his personal life.

Release Date: 2007-03-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 14

The Mist

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

Release Date: 2007-02-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5415

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense project from start to finish. It turns out that this one film may actually be a larger task to complete than all 3 of the Lord of the Rings films together.

Release Date: 2006-11-14

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

King Kong

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

Release Date: 2005-12-12

Character: Biplane gunner (uncredited)

Vote Count: 8062

Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy

A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert Hughes, Joe Carnahan, Richard Linklater, Antoine Fuqua and Frank Darabont are interviewed about the film.

Release Date: 2004-08-17

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.

Release Date: 2004-08-14

Character: Self

Vote Count: 6

Collateral

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

Release Date: 2004-08-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 5807

Entourage

Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.

Release Date: 2004-07-18

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 571

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes

A documentary on the Looney Tunes. Including interviews from people who worked on it, and their family.

Release Date: 2003-10-28

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 1

The Shield

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

Release Date: 2002-03-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 776

The Salton Sea

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Release Date: 2002-02-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 325

The Majestic

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Release Date: 2001-12-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 764

Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature

Film critic and presenter Mark Kermode explores the fascination and praise audiences, fans and critics have behind the classic The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and how its importance grew higher over the years despite being an overlooked film when it was released and not getting any Oscars victories when it was nominated as one of the Best Pictures of the Year.

Release Date: 2001-09-08

Character: Self

Vote Count: 16

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send the script to him firstly, when the first tale was finished and sent to Darabont, after reading such odd story, asking for more, so King replied "You must wait as anybody else", receiving later all other tales Frank wrote a screenplay on 8 weeks, so come up "the Green Mile"

Release Date: 2000-06-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Self - Writer / Director

Vote Count: 10

The Green Mile

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Release Date: 1999-12-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 18127

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life

On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary; fighting his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men and the enemy as he battles his way across the country. Depressed by the turmoil around him, Indy reaches his lowest point. Hope appears in the presence of Albert Schweitzer, a profoundly inspiring and committed doctor, philosopher and musician. Helping out at Schweitzer's jungle hospital, Indy finds his faith in humanity restored and his outlook on life forever changed in this beautiful and moving film.

Release Date: 1999-10-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 21

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate attempt to bring the war more quickly to an end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his espionage work once again threatening lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to empathize with their plight. As the country lurches toward revolution, Indy finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends and his military duty.

Release Date: 1999-10-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 21

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert

Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady spy. Relying on his wits and her tantalizing skill at belly dancing, the daring duo works desperately to defuse the explosives placed in the city's vital water wells by the occupying Turks. The story culminates in a spectacular cavalry charge by the gallant soldiers of the Australian Lighthorsemen Regiment, whose very survival hinges on the success of Indy's mission.

Release Date: 1999-10-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 23

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King.

Release Date: 1999-09-09

Character: Self

Vote Count: 9

Vampires

The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.

Release Date: 1998-10-30

Character: Man with Buick

Vote Count: 1274

Black Cat Run

A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation with the boy friend, he is killed by escaped convicts and the daughter is kidnapped. Everyone, including the deputy, is convinced that the boy friend committed the murder and ran away with the girl. This sets up a chase of the convicts by the boy friend and of the boy friend by the police.

Release Date: 1998-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 17

The Shining

A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.

Release Date: 1997-04-27

Character: Living Room Ghost

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 325

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father are forced together by circumstance when they get into a bind in the monasteries of Meteora, where they share some memorable moments.

Release Date: 1996-06-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 24

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

Release Date: 1994-11-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1259

The Shawshank Redemption

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Release Date: 1994-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 28411

Nightshift Collection

Stephen King's "dollar baby" double bill consisting of Frank Darabont's The Woman in the Room (1984) and Jeff Schiro's The Boogeyman (1982).

Release Date: 1994-08-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom

Indy is ordered to locate and destroy a powerful German artillery gun that is mysteriously able to appear and disappear at will, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Assisting him is a colorful group of soldiers nicknamed "The Old and the Bold" because of their old age and reckless courage. Their mission takes them on a dangerous journey across the German-held veldt via wagon train and hot-air balloon. Overcoming all manner of obstacles presented by the enemy, his own side and the harsh African terrain, Indy relentlessly follows the trail of the mega-gun right into the bowels of a secret mountain hideout, where he plans an explosive end for the phantom train of doom.

Release Date: 1993-06-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 22

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.

Release Date: 1992-03-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 121

Two-Fisted Tales

The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," and "Yellow." This star-studded telefilm was an attempt to launch a second anthology series in the mold of "Tales from the Crypt." When the film failed to generate sufficient interest, the three tales were re-edited and shown as "Crypt" episodes.

Release Date: 1992-01-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 14

Buried Alive

A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.

Release Date: 1990-05-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 160

Tales from the Crypt

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Release Date: 1989-06-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 912

The Fly II

Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.

Release Date: 1989-02-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 681

Stephen King's World of Horror

This horror documentary is not the same as the 1986 TV special Stephen King's World of Horror nor the 1988 VHS release of the same name, which runs 45 minutes, was distributed by Front Row Entertainment and is about King himself. Instead, This Is Horror (copyright 1989) was a TV special which ran in four 60 minute increments. This new special used some framing footage from the original 'World of Horror' but is primarily newer interviews and behind-the-scenes footage about what was hot in horror in the late 80s. Here in the U.S., a condensed 90-minute version made its way onto video courtesy of Goodtimes in 1990. Elsewhere, the entire special was released as 2 different tapes running 90 minutes apiece. In the UK these were titled This is Horror: A Video Encyclopedia of Horror (Volumes 1 and 2) and in Germany they were called Best of Stephen King's World of Horror (Parts 1 & 2).

Release Date: 1989-01-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

The Blob

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

Release Date: 1988-08-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 943

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for a suicide attempt, sends her to a psychiatric ward, where she joins a group of similarly troubled teens.

Release Date: 1987-02-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1859

Stephen King's World of Horror

A documentary about the works of novelist Stephen King and his influence on popular culture and his impact on horror film and novels. Includes celebrity guests John Carpenter, Clive Barker and Frank Darabont, plus a section on outrageous horror film promotions. Portions of this 45-minute TV special (released as is on VHS by Front Row Entertainment in 1988) were later used as bookmarking material for the This is Horror releases in 1989-90.

Release Date: 1986-01-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Trancers

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

Release Date: 1984-11-07

Department: Art

Job: Art Department Assistant

Vote Count: 206

Crimes of Passion

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

Release Date: 1984-10-19

Department: Art

Job: Set Dresser

Vote Count: 175

The Woman in the Room

The main character, an attorney by profession, spends endless hours with his terminally ill mother. Death is her only way out and he's the only one that can help.

Release Date: 1983-04-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 17

The Seduction

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

Release Date: 1982-01-22

Department: Crew

Job: Transportation Captain

Vote Count: 36

Hell Night

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Release Date: 1981-08-28

Department: Production

Job: Production Assistant

Vote Count: 184