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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) -- Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to kill them.
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6.6/10   18,239 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
William Goldman (written by)
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Release Date:
11 October 1996 (USA) more
Tagline:
Control Your Fear more
Plot:
Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
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A tense, intense, and spooky hunt more (112 total)

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Rated R for some violence and gore involving animal attacks.
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109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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The real Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson published a book about his experiences, titled "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo." more
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Continuity: The hand that Patterson is holding his rifle in when running to discover Remington's body. more
Quotes:
Charles Remington: Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.
[Samuel laughs]
Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?
Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.
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Version of Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) more
Soundtrack:
Jungal Bahar (The Prey Song) more

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A tense, intense, and spooky hunt, 3 October 1998
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Author: Karen Davis from Laurel MD

"The Ghost and the Darkness" is a marvellous movie, in the literal sense: the lions come out of the long grass in the daylight or the groundfog in the darkness like the devils they are thought to be. No true motives are ascribed to them, as how could they be?, and that actually serves to make them more demonically terrifying. But whether they are the devils come to prevent Val Kilmer's Patterson from building his bridge, or merely (!) animals hunting for the pleasure of it, they provide more suspense, more terror, and more death than most high-tech cgi aliens. Michael Douglas's Remington, dispossessed of home and family in the American civil war, is an interesting character, but it's Kilmer's British bridge-builder in a time where engineers had to know how to shoot tigers and manage Hindu-Muslim conflicts fully as much as how to put up their structures, who is the focus of the film, and rightly so. Kilmer's performance is quiet, almost understated, but one of the best I've seen him give; he's fully convincing, especially as he fights the belief that the lions are, in fact, out to get him personally. "They are just lions," he says halfway through the movie, and you can hear how much he wants to believe it. John Kani also gives a good performance, contained mostly in small moments that are so true they almost hurt. The cinematography is beautiful, especially the of the lion attacks and their passages through the grass. Again, no cgi effects could convey so much beauty and lurking menace. This movie is beautiful, intense, and dramatic; I highly recommend it.

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