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Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) a score of 2.5275 out of 4

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(18)

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Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)

The most important aspect of The Ghost and the Darkness is that it is fun. That's a strange thing to say of an adventure/horror score, but ultimately, the adventure cues greatly outnumber the horror variety. Nevertheless, this is a...read the complete Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)

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Scott Renshaw

Ordinarily, it is be a remarkably bad idea for a film in any genre to make such obvious references to the classics of its genre, because they only serve to emphasize that you are not watching a much better movie of the same kind. Yet there is something...read the complete Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) review at Scott Renshaw

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Jam! Movies (Louis B. Hobson)

A compelling experience because it is true and because it is photographed with such panoramic intensity....read the complete Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) review at Jam! Movies (Louis B. Hobson)

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Dragan Antulov

THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS was based on the real events, chronicled in Colonel Patterson's book and adapted for screen half a century ago in BWANA DEVIL. But the audience would probably think that the main source of inspiration was Steven Spielberg's...read the complete Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) review at Dragan Antulov