Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s famous novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé and James Fox. The show is the third screen adaptation of the novella, following a 1958 television adaptation for the anthology series "Playhouse 90" starring Boris Karloff, and 1979's "Apocalypse Now" with Marlon Brando, which loosely adapted it and updated it to the Vietnam War. The film was filmed as a co-production with Ted Turner's Turner Pictures, and then aired by his TNT network. Ivory
Prince of Darkness (film) in "Time Out" gave a positive review of the film, calling "Prince of Darkness" "engrossing" and adding "the claustrophobic terror generated by fluid camerawork and striking angles" leads "to a heart-racing climax". The film currently holds a 56% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 36 reviews. In 2004, Jim Emerson wrote that "Prince of Darkness" was an undervalued horror film: "What makes me goose-pimply about "Prince of Darkness" is its goofy-but-ingenious central conceit and its truly Surrealistic imagery, some of which could have sprouted out of Buñuel and Dali's "Un Chien Andalou"." Like most of Carpenter's films, "Prince of Darkness"