The Ghost and the Darkness

1996 · 109 min · EN · R · 6.8 (1,146 votes)

Dir. Stephen Hopkins · Starring Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Emily Mortimer, Bernard Hill · Music Jerry Goldsmith

“Prey For The Hunters”

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Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

VIBE

Feel the relentless, escalating dread as human ingenuity clashes with untamed, ancient forces in a visually sweeping, period-set adventure. It's a primal, suspenseful journey into the heart of a terrifying wilderness, where the hunter becomes the hunted and survival hangs by a thread.

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