Engineer John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) and expert hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) are called upon to end the threat and kill the almost supernaturally clever lions. The film is set in late 19th-Century Kenya, where a pair of man-eating lions (named The Ghost and The Darkness, of course) are terrorizing a railroad crew as they construct a vital bridge.
Like Jaws, The Ghost and the Darkness is another tale of man battling beast inspired by real events. Never once did it occur to them to cut their losses and move inland. In the original, the island town of Amity is stalked by a large and very tenacious Great White whose arrival is heralded by John Williams' iconic score.Īquaphobic Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) managed to blow up the shark in the climax, but he and his family would continue to be hounded by similar creatures for another three sequels. beast battles than with the movie that made generations of moviegoers afraid to go in the water? Jaws is inspired by a series of real-life shark attacks in New Jersey in the early 1900s.
What better way to kick off a list of epic man vs.
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