History YMMV / TheGhostAndTheDarkness

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/JerryGoldsmith was behind the film's score, giving us musical moments of adventure and dread, particularly the music used in the film's climax.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Emily Mortimer makes her film debut as Patterson's wife.

* AwesomeMusic: Music/JerryGoldsmith was behind the film's score, giving us musical moments of adventure and dread, particularly the music used in the film's climax.

* AwesomeMusic: Jerry Goldsmith was behind the film's score, giving us musical moments of adventure and dread, particularly the music used in the film's climax.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. God, where could one possibly begin? Throughout the entirety of the movie, the lions [[ParanoiaFuel lurk in the tall grass just out of sight]]. At times, one can see a tail swish from above the grass, but aside from that they are nearly invisible until they drop their stalking modes and attack. They seem to be almost supernaturally cunning and stealthy. What makes all of this worse is that the film implies that they are not simply killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' Worst of all is that the lions portrayed in the film actually existed (sans manes) and many of the film's nightmarish events actually happened.
** The lion's den is littered with the human skeletal remains.
** There is also the [[spoiler: hospital massacre sequence in which the lions invade the hospital tent and proceed to slaughter everyone inside.]] At several times during this sequence, the lions' eyes appear to glow demonically.
** Patterson's nightmare in which one of the lions attacks his wife and baby and the build-up to it. At starts off happily, then MoodWhiplash kicks in.
** At one point, fire reflects in one of the lion's eyes, as if hell itself was inside of them.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. God, where could one possibly begin? Throughout the entirety of the movie, the lions [[ParanoiaFuel lurk in the tall grass just out of sight]]. At times, one can see a tail swish from above the grass, but aside from that they are nearly invisible until they drop their stalking modes and attack. They seem to be almost supernaturally cunning and stealth. What makes all of this worse is that the film implies that they are not simply killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' What makes all of this worse is that the lions portrayed in the film actually existed (sans manes) and many of the film's nightmarish events actually happened.

* RootingfortheEmpire: Some viewers find themselves rooting for the lions as they believe the arrival of the workers and the construction of the railroad was an invasion of the lions territory.

** At one point, fire reflects in one of the lion's eyes, as if hell itself was inside of them.

* AwesomeMusic: Jerry Goldsmith was behind the film's score, giving us musical moments of adventure and dread.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. God, where could one possibly begin? Throughout the entirety of the movie, the lions [[ParanoiaFuel lurk in the tall grass just out of sight]]. At times one can see a tail swish from above the grass, but aside from that they are nearly invisible until they drop their stalking modes and attack. They seem to be almost supernaturally cunning and stealth. What makes all of this worse is that the film implies that they are not simply killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' What makes all of this worse is that the lions portrayed in the film actually existed (sans manes) and many of the film's nightmarish events actually happened.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. Dear God, the lions. Throughout the movie [[ParanoiaFuel they lurk in the tall grass just out of sight]], stalking and killing workers. They seem to be almost supernatural in their stealth and cunning and are not only killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' Their den is also littered with the skeletal remains of their prey. It doesn't help much when the audience know these particular lions actually existed.
** There is also the [[spoiler: hospital massacre sequence in which the lions invade the hospital tent and proceed to kill everyone inside.]]

* NightmareFuel: The lions. Dear God, the lions. Throughout the movie [[ParanoiaFuel they lurk in the tall grass just out of sight]], stalking and killing workers. They seem to be almost supernatural in their stealth and cunning and are not only killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' It doesn't help much when the audience know these particular lions actually existed.

** When the heroes of the film come across the lions' den, we see massive amounts of human skeletal remains.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. Dear God, the lions. Throughout the movie [[ParanoiaFuel they lurk in the tall grass out of sight]], stalking and killing workers. They seem to be almost supernatural in their stealth and cunning and are not only killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' It doesn't help much when the audience know these particular lions actually existed.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. Dear God, the lions. Throughout the movie [[ParanoiaFuel they lurk in the tall grass]], stalking and killing workers. They seem to be almost supernatural in their stealth and cunning and are not only killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' It doesn't help much when the audience know these particular lions actually existed.

* NightmareFuel: The lions. Dear God, the lions. They're throughout the movie lurking in the tall grass, stalking and killing workers. They seem to be almost supernatural in their stealth and cunning and are not only killing the workers for food, but ''for pleasure.'' It doesn't help much when the audience know these particular lions actually existed.

* NightmareFuel: Besides the lions themselves, there is also the [[spoiler: hospital massacre sequence in which the lions invade the hospital tent and proceed to kill everyone inside.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: ''Oooh boy.'' The fact that somewhere in the tall grass of the savannah lurks two seemingly supernatural lions that deliberately stalk and kill humans is enough to give someone the creeps.

* NightmareFuel: Besides the lions themselves, there is also the [[spoiler: hospital massacre sequence in which the lions invade the hospital tent and proceed to kill everyone inside.]]

* NightmareFuel: Besides the lions themselves, there is also the [[spoiler: hospital massacre sequence in which the lions invade the medical campsite and proceed to kill everyone inside.]]

* NightmareFuel: Besides the lions themselves, there is also the [[spoiler: hospital massacre sequence in which the lions invade the campsite and proceed to kill everyone inside.]]

* CompleteMonster: Well, given the fact that these two lions hunt and kill humans for pure fun or lick their victim's skin off and drink their blood as it oozed to the surface (normal lions never do this) then we have a proof of what happens when an animal falls in this trope.

* NightmareFuel: Being eaten alive.
** Morphs into HighOctaneNightmareFuel during some sequences.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: AwesomeMusic/JerryGoldsmith

* AwesomeMusic/JerryGoldsmith

** Morphs into HighOctaneNightmareFuel during some sequences.