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The Ghost and the Darkness

Michael Douglas (Actor, Producer), Val Kilmer (Actor), Stephen Hopkins (Director) Rated:

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Only the most incredible parts of the story are true. Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer star in this tense, terrific and true adventure set in 1896 East Africa. There, two lions on man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food-and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington (Douglas) and construction engineer Patterson (Kilmer) set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But, in this astonishing tale of man against beast, the hunters become the hunted.

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Val Kilmer stars as Lt. Col. John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when a pair of unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an Ahab-like, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is based on fact, though the film owes more to Spielberg (specifically to Jaws) than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one. --Tom Keogh

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medR R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Stephen Hopkins
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Letterboxed
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 1998
Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Bernard Hill
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ A. Kitman Ho, Gale Anne Hurd, Grant Hill, Michael Douglas, Paul B. Radin
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 6305181926
Writers ‏ : ‎ William Goldman
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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MovieLover

WHAT A MOVIE!

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2017

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Contrary to the 1/2 star offered by Robert Ebert (insane), we've watched this film at least 3 distinct times over the years. If we ever visit Chicago, we will go to see 'The Ghost' and 'The Darkness' - the Tsavo Man-Eaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History.

The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating Tsavo lions responsible for the deaths of a number of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway from March through December 1898. The significance of this pair of lions was their unusual behavior, such as the number of men killed and the manner of the attacks.

This movie has so many dimensions that warrant 5 stars that we can't even list them all. A compelling story based on real events. Bring popcorn, or you'll chew your nails off. All 10 of them! Enjoy 5x

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Red Oktober

Awesome Adventure

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018

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I'd say, this is a classic. Based on a true story and the evidence is in the Chicago field museum.
Good character build up, plot and an awesome cameo by Michael Douglas.
No CGI lions. All appearances by the lions were real.
You will definitely need a good subwoofer to watch this movie.

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Serkan Okar

German Region B Blu Ray of The Ghost and The Darkness

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2018

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This is German (Region B) blu ray release of The Ghost and The Darkness so it will play only on blu ray players that are configured to play Region B blu ray disc (multi-region or region-free blu ray player).

Blu ray transfer is decent but has flaws, some scenes have white dots flashing here and there, I wish they had cleaned up the film and corrected those errors. That's why, I gave 4 stars instead of 5. It's still better than the standard DVD edition. There is also no English subtitles. I think there is only German subtitles. Menu is in German so you will need to use your intuition to navigate through the menu options. There are a few extra features about the making of the film and interviews.

I've always liked this film. Somehow, it reminds me of Jaws. There are some parallel similarities in both movies. In Jaws, a shark kept attacking the same town's beach; in G&D, a couple of lions attack the same town. The scenes of fields with tall grass moving with the wind and a glimpse of a lion lurking reminded me of scenes in Jaws where the camera moves through the bottom of the ocean. In both movies, there is a trap devised to lure and capture the predator, in both movies they hire an expert hunter to deal with the situation. Overall, I think this is a very well-made film and one of the best monster movies ever made.

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Lee

Great film

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2016

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A total of 4 lions who were man eaters dominated this film. They hampered the construction of a bridge, terrorized, and killed almost 100 of the workers. A person cannot say that the lions were hunted, simply the lions hunted and while hunting man they were shot and killed at different times. The cast was superb, scenery superb, and the production was breathtaking. Surprise with Michael Douglas, as he was barely recognizable and gave a stellar performance. Val Kilmer was great in being able to project true fear. A bit brutal and graphic, but necessary to the plot.

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Fantastic movie!

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019

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I rarely give a 5 star rating but this movie is one of them. Michael Douglas (awesome), Val Kilmer and John Kani do an outstanding acting job in this movie; the entire cast was good. I've seen this movie before and it's one that will never be outdated. Great viewing!!

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Anna

Love this movie, but get your facts straight!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2019

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I have loved this movie since it was released, and have even been to the Field Museum to see the lions in person. They are old and not mounted very well, but still very impressive. I have issue with the trivia statement that some of the actors have polio vaccine scars on their arms. For the age of the actors, they most likely received oral polio vaccine and would not have any scars. Even the injected polio vaccine does not leave any scars. The scars are either from Small Pox vaccine, (given until 1972), or BCG vaccine, (protects against Tuberculosis), which has been in use since 1921 and still used in some countries today. If you are going to give us trivia to read, which I love by the way, at least make it accurate.

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Michael J. Scott

Outstanding Movie! Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray!

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017

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This is an outstanding movie, starring some big personalities, and then there's Mike Douglas, and Val Kilmer. The lions are the scene stealers of this huge motion picture. The African scenics are breathtaking, and the conflicts between labor and management are exciting indeed, with lessons to be learned for the 21st Century. I saw this movie originally in the theater, and can't help but wonder why it hasn't been released to Blu-Ray! Blu-Ray! Blu-Ray! Blu-Ray! I'll be the first of your millions of customers sure to follow.

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desert flower

the most racist, bigoted movie ever made

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2021

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I like Val Kilmer because of the documentary he did on the Salton Sea so I thought I'd give this a chance. This has to be the most disgusting example of colonialism and the white man thinking he is superior that I have ever seen. I can't believe the people representing Africa in this movie agreed to portray the lions as evil while including the storyline that the lions represented a ghost of wisdom against white elite colonialism. I wanted the lion story in the movie to be defended, not the colonizers. Through its role in colonialism, the railway in Africa represents the tearing apart of cultures and destroying ecosystems.

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Super 8er

Leider gekürzt

Reviewed in Germany on March 16, 2019

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Leider gibt es diesen Film zur Zeit nur in der FSK 12 Fassung, hier fehlt eine ganze Sequenz, nähmlich die in der Michael douglas vom Löwen den Kopf abgebissen bekommt. Ich habe den Film noch in der FSK 16 VHS Version, da ist die Szene vorhanden. Ich kann mich auch noch gut an die Reaktionen im Kino bei dieser Szene erinnern. Ich habe mehr als 38 Jahre als Filmvorführer gearbeitet und mich auch oft mit Stammgästen unterhalten, viele fanden diese Szene zu gruselig, ich fand sie sehr realistisch und finde es sehr schade, dass sie herausgeschnitten wurde.

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Jon L.

GERMAN LANGUAGE ONLY!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2017

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Great film!! However, after being denied the DVD in the UK now for years (long deleted), we have no blu ray either. So i thought An international Region B was my answer. Almost ALL US/UK movies put out in europe have the original English soundtrack available as an option, so i was bitterly disappointed they have removed it. This is GERMAN ONLY folks, and its also pretty stupid the listing here doesn't seem to see fit to tell you that.

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PAUL BRYETT

Der Geist und die Dunkelheit Includes English Language

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2021

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I have wanted a Blu-ray copy of this film for a long time.

I hadn't bought it before because there's reviews advising that its German language only which are probably from previous releases.
However when i looked at this up-close i could see a white bubble saying "inkl. deutscher und englisher Tonspur , putting this into google translate as i don't speak German! it says including German and English Soundtrack , so i took a gamble and ordered it.
Watched last night and picture is good 4 to 4.5 out of 5,( this is from1996) there was no sign of the white veil others reviews have mentioned.

So picture good to very good, no flaws i saw watching on a 50" pioneer plasma, English language with no subtitles displaying whilst watching ( unfortunately there is no English subtitle option) and no sound issues.
It is slightly cut as another reviewer has mentioned.

So if like me you really want this and buy this version from Amazon you should be happy, i think unless they reissue this films its the best version( the only version!) available.

ScottPaul ScottPaul

The Boos In The Blackness.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2014

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1996, for better or worse (well, worse, let's be honest) brought the slasher back into fatal fashion via 'Scream' but 'The Relic' and this film proved horror and thriller cinema could still function away from the human killer motif, and this is one of those rare occasions where the "based on true events" emblem is a satisfactory addition to mull over rather than a hateful marketing ploy and plea to excuse any run-of-the-mill exploitative humdrum nonsense regarding human-on-human violence and pretending it equals horror and quality.

Here, of course it does, as Michael Douglas's "big game hunter" is breezed in by haughty and cold railroad financier Tom Wilkinson, who's blanching at his hand-picked military engineer's inability to capitalise on a lucky shot that took out a marauding lion, and Val Kilmer's engineer is assuredly put out, but remains in awe of the newcomer, whilst Douglas gives him a withering reception, but grudgingly comes around over the amount of time they have to spend together, and as Wilkinson is still roaring about the railway and a bridge under construction all but being abandoned in the wake of a pair of leonine monsters rampaging about the area, both make quick tacks to track this "Ghost and Darkness" (so-called for their stealth-heavy appearances out of air that strike and kill before anyone can react), which was always going to be the biggest challenge either man had ever faced.

Based on The Man Eaters Of Tsavo by the creaky colonel who had the gall to kill both lions after the carnage said to have killed anywhere between 30-135 railroad workers during the 1898 building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in Kenya. William Goldman had wanted to put it to script as soon as he heard the story upon a visit to Africa in 1984 and six years later he presented it to Paramount, who could have killed it dead before it started, for, despite interest by Kevin Costner, world's worst 'actor' Tom Ooze Cruise where who they wanted, but mercy bowed when the wretch turned it down, and then Val Kilmer (who had scarily turned down Ooze's 'Top Gun' role, despite appearing in the same appalling film) desired it. Michael Douglas wasn't first choice either, but Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins had declined, and whilst Gerard Depardieu was given consideration (interesting!), on came Douglas or in came Douglas, whichever you prefer.

The film is acted well enough, but it's South African actor and playwright John Kani as the Maasai supervisor and the story's narrator who makes the most human and long lasting impression, but Bernard Hill and Brian McCardie also register well, and Emily Mortimer pops up in an early role. The lion scenes are generally shot really well, and the film is rather astoundingly gory, delivering and dissecting more meat then I would have expected. The actual lions of this historical horror are not exactly what you see-the two on film were brother animals hired from a Canadian zoo that also featured in the stupid Brendan Fraser flick 'George Of The Jungle'-the two lions responsible for the myriad deaths of so long past were actually Tsovo natives that barely had any mane, but it's likely, as well as the recorded fierceness of the lions that come from this area, that the studio were afraid barely maned lions wouldn't be taken as seriously or even considered male. Okay, but a little silly, when we know that lionesses are more likely to attack people, what with being more active than the lazier males.

Location work is suitably charming-shot in a game reserve, with many actors portraying the Masaai workers, though there is at least one real tribe in the film as depicted at one of the hunt attempts. The film won an award for Best Sound Editing, though Kilmer would be less happy to have scooped a Razzie nomination, there were also rumours he and Douglas didn't get on, but he was very difficult in those days of the mid-90s, the man seems to have mellowed since, and has been doing largely good film work since the really cool but undervalued thriller/film noir 'The SaltonSea' in 2002.

Both region discs have no extras to speak off so you'll just have to enjoy the film, the same year's 'The Edge' (maybe why Anthony Hopkins turned it down) has a little bit more in the extras department. But films are worthy and great examples of survival horror and adventuring thrillers, and this spirited blackness roars its pride.

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Lonely Russian

Poor QUALITY

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2019

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It does have English audio but no subtitles. What is much worse is a very poor grainy picture quality. Not worth the price.

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