1996 · adventure · thriller · history
The Ghost and the Darkness
Directed by Stephen Hopkins1h 49m1996
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.
Our read: The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive adventure · thriller · history entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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