The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - Full Reaction
Added 2023-09-16 18:16:53 +0000 UTCI was completely captivated by this film. I wanted to look away but I couldn't! Thought the main 3 actors were fantastic! So the intro is missing the music in this one, and it makes it SO WEIRD haha. We are fixing that but int the meantime you can watch everything else just fine. Also, sorry about my coughing, I have a cold :(. Hope you enjoy!
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I watched Ghandi (1982) a few times over the years. My son watched it with me in 2017 before we visited Ghandi’s house in Mumbai.
Clay F
2024-10-11 00:13:02 +0000 UTCOne day maybe, but it's doubtful anybody will ever react to it sadly. I'm not holding my breath. Old movies, even multiple, multiple award winners, just get absolutely forgotten unless they are in the popular culture somehow. It makes me have a sad. Whats even better, it seems most people have fallen for all the absolutely a historical, no factual basis, rumors and negative propaganda about Gandhi and his life. No fact checking, just people believing whatever they see on the internet.
Astraeos
2024-10-10 23:46:42 +0000 UTCA big +1 for Gandhi (1982)
Clay F
2024-09-26 17:05:14 +0000 UTCI remember the red all over the grass made me squeamish...
Em McG
2023-10-08 22:51:22 +0000 UTCI've seen this before, but it was so long ago I was maybe a teenager or younger so really didn't remember much. Fun watch and reaction. The JAWS shirt was quite appropriate. Serious JAWS influences in this one. BTW, would love to see a JAWS 2 reaction someday! Solid sequel.
SeanATX
2023-09-19 04:00:46 +0000 UTCAnd of course Bernard Hill also played Captain Smith in TITANIC. I've seen GHOSTS before but a long time ago so a fun surprise to see King Theoden show up.
SeanATX
2023-09-19 03:55:57 +0000 UTCPerhaps you've seen this video but if not then you might be interested in this this video, which explains how historically accurate the movie is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5QWPKL74E&ab_channel=HistoryBuffs
Cody Nelson
2023-09-18 14:52:35 +0000 UTCWell, that explains the PAL timing.
Mike Lemon
2023-09-18 09:25:11 +0000 UTCDer Geist und die Dunkelheit. It is German, literal translation of The Ghost and the Darkness.
Gábor Árki
2023-09-18 05:49:13 +0000 UTCNot me unfortunately. This movie came out 21 years after I graduated! (Class of 1975)
Richard Rolen
2023-09-18 02:39:20 +0000 UTChttps://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/tsavo-lions
Richard Rolen
2023-09-18 02:38:00 +0000 UTCWas that a french opening title?
Eric Wallace
2023-09-18 02:19:56 +0000 UTCOkay so a couple things. Who else here watched this in High School? I think I watched it twice, once in Biology, and once in like Geography I think. Another thing, a recommendation that I seriously, seriously hope you consider that this movie made me think of; Gandhi (1982), Directed by Richard Attenborough, who is Dr. Hammond in Jurassic Park, and starring Ben Kingsley as Gandhi himself. Its honestly a super important movie in my opinion, and another movie I watched in High School that has absolutely stuck with me throughout my entire life.
Astraeos
2023-09-18 01:37:53 +0000 UTCAbout 30 mins in I remembered the dream sequence and thought, 'oh my, that is really going to do a number on her'. On the 5th "I will...." I couldn't help but laugh haha. They did you so dirty on that one, it looked like you were about to throw hands.
Erik Daniel
2023-09-17 21:33:50 +0000 UTCThe fermented fruit. XD
Doug Fisher
2023-09-17 19:51:43 +0000 UTCWent to see this with my friend in the theatre. It is a great movie but the problem with the first time I saw it was we could only get front row seats and all the swaying grass made me motion sick and I had to leave. The positive was the manager gave me comp tickets so I was able to watch it again... from much farther back. lol
Doug Fisher
2023-09-17 19:49:32 +0000 UTCI visited the Field Museum in Chicago and they have these lions' exhibit in there. The Lions of Tsavo exhibit.
Jacob Colson
2023-09-17 18:57:05 +0000 UTCSounds familiar lol. We'll get there some day.
Erik Daniel
2023-09-17 18:43:59 +0000 UTCThanks Cassie, for showing me another movie I had never seen before. The two lead performances were great, well worth the price of admission.
Mike LL
2023-09-17 18:26:02 +0000 UTCYeah I saw Brotherhood Of The Wolf, but it just didn't do it for me. They didn't do what I thought they were going to do. Without giving away major plotlines. I liked the idea of Native American and Gothic aesthetics. But for me they used the wrong animal.
Zachary K. (Verified Swiftie)
2023-09-17 16:02:44 +0000 UTCIt was mentioned by someone in the comment section after the poll went up.
My_Cousin_Mose
2023-09-17 15:45:18 +0000 UTC+1 for The Saint
Mike Lemon
2023-09-17 14:13:29 +0000 UTCIf we're talking animal movies, Togo on Disney+ is excellent
Odd Thomas
2023-09-17 12:32:27 +0000 UTCWilliam Goldman wrote the screenplay. He also did Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Maverick, The Princess Bride, Misery and heaps of other great movies including All The Presidents Men which would be good to see on the channel.
Jacob King
2023-09-17 11:00:25 +0000 UTCAnother fun 90s jungle movie is Congo, starring Laura Linney from Primal Fear and Tim Curry
Odd Thomas
2023-09-17 10:50:41 +0000 UTCA fun schlocky movie based on the beast of Gevaudan is Brotherhood of The Wolf. It’s the same basic structure as Ghost and the Darkness except there is a Native American king fu master, secret societies, and a ton of Gothic aesthetics.
Jacob King
2023-09-17 10:45:38 +0000 UTCThe Grey with Liam Neeson is great too; kinda like this but with wolves
Odd Thomas
2023-09-17 10:23:16 +0000 UTCSince Cassie like this so much, I think she'd really like The Edge.
Johnny
2023-09-17 09:26:00 +0000 UTCI haven't been to the Field Museum in about 5 years even though I can walk there from where I work. They were still there. Like others have mentioned they didn't have manes which was unexpected. The lions used in the movie look bigger then the real ones but they were still quite the lethal duo.
Obsolyeet
2023-09-17 07:09:11 +0000 UTCWas partly waiting for Cassie to recognize Bernard Hill (the camp doctor), who played King Theoden in LOTR. And John Kani, who plays Samuel, most recently appeared in BLACK PANTHER. And gosh. Handsome Val Kilmer era, for sure.
Alex Villarreal
2023-09-17 06:54:00 +0000 UTCHi Cassie, you said you want to research the true story. This video from "History Buffs" channel is great and really breaks down the true story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5QWPKL74E&t=3s
Andy Bodkin
2023-09-17 06:43:22 +0000 UTCI’m a huge Val Kilmer fan. Met him twice. I highly recommend the Amazon Prime documentary VAL. It’s a great way to get to know an actor that many think they know, but in fact don’t. He’s an artist, through and through. It’s narrated by his son (who sounds exactly like he did before cancer took his voice). A great watch for this channel would be Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang with Val and Robert Downey Jr.
Brian Lowery
2023-09-17 04:04:22 +0000 UTCPlease watch Val in The Saint and Real Genius
Jaime Hernandez
2023-09-17 03:09:45 +0000 UTCBased on how much you enjoyed this, you should really watch Out of Africa. It'll never win any polls here because I don't think many of your subscribers have seen it or even heard of it. It would have to be a popcorn pick of the month, but Carly would enjoy it too. OoA is directed by Sydney Pollack (Jeremiah Johnson, The Firm, Sabrina) and stars Meryl Streep & Robert Redford. It won 7 Oscars, including best picture and best director. Synopsis: "In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter." Imagine Ghost and the Darkness but less scary, with more epic cinematography of Africa, and a love story with Redford and Streep. How can you go wrong with that?
Jesus F Christ
2023-09-17 02:08:14 +0000 UTCBetween this and The Bridge On The River Kwai, you missed doing an Engineer’s Week - except the only other movie I can think of with building a railroad is Blazing Saddles, which might be a stretch.
2-Can
2023-09-17 01:52:41 +0000 UTCCassie funny your wearing a jaws shirt because jaws was base on a man eater shark in early 1900s trust me there are more man eaters then you think
MatthewBrown74m
2023-09-17 01:43:39 +0000 UTCGreat Reaction. To a great movie. I love true stories. Those Lions were scary. They killed for the fun of it.
Rick Williams
2023-09-17 00:50:41 +0000 UTCThis was fun; I have seen it a few times before. I love man-against-beast movies; when John Henry Patterson's wife gets attacked in the dream scene, I thought that was it for Cassie; I thought she passed out because she was already sick. I hope you start feeling better, Cassie.
Eddie Perkins
2023-09-17 00:46:27 +0000 UTCI'm not in the convo much these days and always late to the party, but was White Fang ever talked about for animal week poll?
Erik Daniel
2023-09-17 00:03:56 +0000 UTCWatched it just now for the first time. Good stuff and now Toto’s Africa is looping in my head but I’m good with it.
Omar
2023-09-17 00:00:19 +0000 UTCI have been to see the lions from since childhood 68 years ago. As far as I know they are still at the Field Museum. Not sure if they are scary as much as weird looking. They had no manes which is unusual for male lions. And THIS is even scarier...In 2010, Paul Raffaele wrote a piece for the Smithsonian Magazine about his travels following Bruce Patterson to Kenya to explore the real story. When he arrived in the capital city of Nairobi, a lion had just killed a woman, and only weeks earlier a cattle herder was killed and eaten. “That’s not unusual at Tsavo,” said Samuel Kasiki, the deputy director of biodiversity research and monitoring with the Kenya Wildlife Service. It’s not unusual for the continent of Africa either. A study published in Nature in 2005 counted nearly 600 deaths and 300 people injured by lions in Tanzania alone since 1990
Anthony Perez
2023-09-16 23:53:45 +0000 UTCHaven't seen this in forever, almost forgot about it, Douglas kinda does that character well, same type person he did in Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile just in a different setting. He plays it well. Since we're doing bridge movies now is Bridges at Toko Ri or Bridge Too Far on the list 🤣
Bubba Fett
2023-09-16 22:54:43 +0000 UTCI have to say I absolutely loved this reaction. The most unbelievable parts about this story are true. Research it Cassie. But loved your reaction it was intense. There were worse man-eaters The Beast Of Gévaudan that killed 113 in France in the 18th Century, The Tiger of Champawat which killed nearly 400 before being stopped in 1907.
Zachary K. (Verified Swiftie)
2023-09-16 22:31:53 +0000 UTCBad bug going around. Had me out two days. Feel better.
Brian Lowery
2023-09-16 21:07:05 +0000 UTCI am more worried about that cough Cassie, please tell me you are feeling better?
Zachary K. (Verified Swiftie)
2023-09-16 21:00:33 +0000 UTC“I’m not crying; you’re crying.”
Uncle Phoenix
2023-09-16 20:58:42 +0000 UTCGrowing up my dad introduced me to this movie when I was like 10 years old and it terrified me. Even to this day, even tho I go to the field museum for the dinosaurs, I can never leave without visiting the Tsavo Lions. You should definitely take a trip to see them!
LuMarq
2023-09-16 20:48:58 +0000 UTCThis was a great Saturday afternoon matinee. Thanks Cassie.
Bill Hayden
2023-09-16 20:48:35 +0000 UTCCassie should watch Secondhand Lions. In fact, in could have been on the animal poll.
Bill Hayden
2023-09-16 20:47:39 +0000 UTCI told you, you had to vote for "The Horse Whisperer"! I love Michael Douglas, but Robert is more effective, he also whispers in the lion's ear.😎😁 Great reaction Cassie!
Grégory Gautier
2023-09-16 20:32:28 +0000 UTCOne of Michael Douglas's other best films is Wonder Boys
Odd Thomas
2023-09-16 20:22:59 +0000 UTCOne of the most underrated 90s movies imo
Odd Thomas
2023-09-16 20:21:49 +0000 UTCThis is one of my all-time favorites and I believe it's so underrated. One of my favorite memories of this was during a high school field trip, involving a tour bus. We were allowed to bring movies. By the way, this was back in the days of VHS; for those old enough to remember. Guess which movie I brought. It was so much fun to find out who had never seen the movie, based on their reaction(s) to the 'nightmare scene'; if you know what I mean. LOL
DesertSwordsman
2023-09-16 20:10:58 +0000 UTCa fun fact about these lions, the real-life lions of Tsavo were mane less. the males don't have manes and are bigger than other lions with the manes. reason those bushels of thorns didn't work was because the lions had nothing to get caught on them. i loved this movie when it came out, the theatre had those lion roars deafening. oh i wanted to add i was soooo waiting for your reaction to when his wife gets attacked. and you didnt disappoint. lol. that was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jimmy Reyes
2023-09-16 19:54:49 +0000 UTCI don’t know why I got this movie confused with Secondhand Lions with Robert Duvall, Michael Caine and Haley Joel Osment.
Tara
2023-09-16 19:52:18 +0000 UTCSame director did Predator 2, which given your love for Danny Glover, wouldn't be a bad choice in the future
Choof
2023-09-16 19:46:53 +0000 UTCwatched this one so many times back in the 90s, but now don’t remember it very well so glad there’s a reaction to it…must also admit: I once had the privilege of seeing the lions at the Field Museum in Chicago, it was quite an experience knowing that it was based on a true story
JL_83
2023-09-16 19:24:46 +0000 UTCI remember being really impressed with this movie when it came out. Being a true story makes it all the more shocking.
Richard Bourne
2023-09-16 19:16:15 +0000 UTCJohn Henry Patterson wrote a book of his experiences called The Man-eaters of Tsavo. One of the creepiest details I read was the glowing yellow eyes of the lions staring at the camps during the pitch-black night.
Alex Villarreal
2023-09-16 19:15:28 +0000 UTCGood question,animals turn from natural behavior for the sake of vengeance?
Celeste McAllister
2023-09-16 19:01:34 +0000 UTCThis is a good one, can't wait to watch a little later. Feel better soon, lol. You can always tell when kids are back in school- the parents get sick...
Dave
2023-09-16 18:57:06 +0000 UTCI've honestly never heard of this one, is that Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer? Hmm, interesting! I might give it a shot sometime later! For now, duty calls today lol! In less than a week, I turn 35, yet I still feel 21 lol! Sorry you have a cold Cassie, hope you feel better soon, hope you still have a great Saturday! Hope you liked the cute pics I sent you and I hope you enjoyed watching the video link I sent you with the voting poll idea in the messages lol! Love and support always, [virtual hug] God bless you, Carly, and your family! And as always [snaps fingers & winks] stay classy Cassie🥰😁😉😇🙏👍🌹
Wesley White
2023-09-16 18:49:18 +0000 UTCI'm curious about this one, based on the premise I not just haven't watched it, but I don't think even heard about this movie before. It seems like a rare and intriguing story. Cassie, to close your animal week on a happy note I would suggest watching ANIMALS ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE off channel, a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. We loved it as kids with my brother, and despite being a documentary we watched it dozens of times. It is the funniest and most enjoyable documentary I've ever seen.
Gábor Árki
2023-09-16 18:44:07 +0000 UTCSo in real life Micheal Douglas's character never existed. It's not unheard of for two male lions to hunt together. It's the way they did it that was so unusual. Recent studies of the lions hides have shown why the lions hunted the way they did. At least they think.
Zachary K. (Verified Swiftie)
2023-09-16 18:40:16 +0000 UTCPerfect timing. My pizza was just delivered. Lunch and a watch along of one of my all-time favorite flicks with Cassie. Couldn’t ask for more 🍕🎬😊
Ramzi M. A. Ramzi
2023-09-16 18:36:33 +0000 UTCDon’t think I’ve ever seen this one. Looking forward to watching it along with you Cassie. P.S. Hope you’re feeling better
Robert da Spruce
2023-09-16 18:36:01 +0000 UTCNever even heard of this one. Excited to give it a watch
aarswft
2023-09-16 18:34:10 +0000 UTCMichael Douglas at his peak
Russell Teo
2023-09-16 18:26:30 +0000 UTCi need to go watch that! thank you! I wonder if anything like it has happened since?
Cassie
2023-09-16 18:22:58 +0000 UTCIf you go to 'History Buffs' channel Nick Hodges has a detailed synopsis on this movie,this really happened..
Celeste McAllister
2023-09-16 18:22:21 +0000 UTCMy dad and I bonded over this movie. One of the first DVDs we ever bought. We loved the music so much we spent a LOT on it’s out of print, low run soundtrack. I’m so excited. One of my favorite Val Kilmer performances.
djKENTO
2023-09-16 18:19:50 +0000 UTCSuch a great Man vs Beast film and based on a true story. The only difference was that the real Lions of Tsavo were maneless. It's crazy that they killed over 130 people.
Zane From Canada
2023-09-16 18:18:39 +0000 UTC
