Frank Darabont has done plenty of Stephen King adaptations over the years, including "The Woman in the Room," "The Shawshank Redemption," and "The Green Mile." In 2007, he added another one to his resume: "The Mist." The film, which marked Holden's second collaboration with Darabont after 2001's "The Majestic," tells the story of a band of survivors trapped inside a grocery store. They're trying to escape a mysterious mist that contains a range of blood-thirsty monsters. Holden stars as Amanda Dunfrey, a school teacher who befriends David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy (Nathan Gamble).
"The Mist" blends practical and CGI effects expertly, and while speaking to Fangoria in 2007, Holden praised the film's realism regarding practical creature designs. "The animators demonstrated how every single creature moved — their teeth, their tails, their wings, what color they were, the hair — with such detail that it gave us a wonderful point of reference when we had to look at an X on the window or a tennis ball on a stick," she said. "We all knew exactly what we were looking at, which was very helpful."
