The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

The Ghost and the Darkness rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.8/10· 69K votes

Rotten Tomatoes51%

Metacritic46%

TMDb6.8/10· 1K votes

With 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.8/10 on IMDb and 46/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Ghost and the Darkness

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.

Cast of The Ghost and the Darkness

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  Michael Douglas

  as Charles Remington

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  Val Kilmer

  as Col. John Henry Patterson

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  Tom Wilkinson

  as Sir Robert Beaumont

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  John Kani

  as Samuel

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  Emily Mortimer

  as Helena Patterson

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  Bernard Hill

  as Dr. David Hawthorne

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  Brian McCardie

  as Angus Starling

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  Om Puri

  as Abdullah

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  Jack Devnarain

  as Nervous Sikh Orderly

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  Henry Cele

  as Mahina

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  Kurt Egelhof

  as Indian Victim

• S

  Satchu Annamalai

  as Worker

The Ghost and the Darkness facts

Budget

$50M

Box office

$38.6M