Overdue Homework The Ghost And The Darkness 1996

2025-10-13

The Ghost and the Darkness is basically Jaws, but with lions and fewer functional accents. Val Kilmer tries to build a bridge, but instead builds a buffet line for two man-eating cats who think they’re horror movie villains. Enter Michael Douglas, rocking a mullet and a rifle like they’re superpowers, only to prove he’s just as edible as everyone else. By the end, the lions are the most competent characters in the movie. This is the Overdue Homework Podcast we review and assign new 80's and 90's Movie, TV, or...

The Ghost and the Darkness is basically Jaws, but with lions and fewer functional accents. Val Kilmer tries to build a bridge, but instead builds a buffet line for two man-eating cats who think they’re horror movie villains. Enter Michael Douglas, rocking a mullet and a rifle like they’re superpowers, only to prove he’s just as edible as everyone else. By the end, the lions are the most competent characters in the movie.

This is the Overdue Homework Podcast we review and assign new 80's and 90's Movie, TV, or Video Game homework every episode.

We assign 1996's The Rock

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/TheGhostAndTheDarkness

https://movieweb.com/true-story-that-inspired-the-ghost-and-the-darkness/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/trivia/

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