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Directed by Stephen Hopkins
USA 1996
Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer star in this tense, terrific and true adventure set in 1896 East Africa. There, two lions on a 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. *** 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. |
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Theatrical Release: October 3rd, 1996
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Review: Shout! Factory - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Runtime | 1:49:55.714 | |
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2.12 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 32,341,576,244 bytesFeature: 31,762,771,968 bytes Video Bitrate: 32.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 2633 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2633 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Shout! Factory
2.12 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 32,341,576,244 bytesFeature: 31,762,771,968 bytes Video Bitrate: 32.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Original Theatrical Trailer (2:14)
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On their
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Shout! Factory give the option of DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround or 2.0
channel stereo tracks (24-bit) in the
original English language. The Ghost and the Darkness
has aggressive lion attacks and growling snarls, screaming, a train as
well as the mysterious rustling grasses. There were some less-deft
separations to the rear speakers that add to the film's suspense, fear
and intensity. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for
supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler. The score is another good one
by
Jerry Goldsmith (Papillon,
The
Salamander,
The
Mephisto Waltz,
Seconds,
The Shout! Factory
Blu-ray
Stephen Hopkins' The Ghost and the
Darkness
was written by William Goldman - who was not pleased with the final
product. I have always liked it - a fictionalized account of the 1898
Tsavo man-eaters that killed 135 people. They were two male lions that
attacked and often devoured workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during
the building of a bridge over the river Tsavo for the Uganda-Mombasa
Railway in East Africa. The film's deaths are gruesome with the lions
'playing' with their prey at times taking them back to a lair discovered
by hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) and Col. John Henry
Patterson (Val Kilmer.) I hadn't seen The Ghost and the Darkness
for over a decade but still enjoyed the tense, creature-feature-esque
story. The bare-bones Shout! Factory Blu-ray
is good for a late Friday night viewing. It's very re-watchable so a
keeper for me. |
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