Since the mid 1990s, Elfman has expanded his craft to a range of genres, including thrillers ("Dolores Claiborne", "A Simple Plan", "The Kingdom"), dramas ("Sommersby", "A Civil Action", "Hitchcock"), indies ("Freeway", "Silver Linings Playbook", "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot"), family ("Flubber", "Charlotte's Web", "Frankenweenie", "Goosebumps"), documentary ("Standard Operating Procedure", "The Unknown Known"), and straight horror ("Red Dragon", "The Wolfman"), as well as notable entries in his well-established areas of horror comedy ("The Frighteners", "Mars Attacks!", "Dark Shadows") and comic book-inspired action films ("Hulk", "Wanted", ', ').