If you are bored tonight,

[shortylickens]

have a read:


http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Ghost_and_the_Darkness


Its not Cracked, but they've run dry.

 

[phucheneh]

What am I looking for? Is it the movie that's funny or something actually on IMFDB? Bets hedged on 'neither.'

I vaguely remember the trailers for that movie. They advertised it like a horror film. Much like the Mars movie that Kilmer was in around the same time.

The true horror of both, though, was Val Kilmer.

 

[shortylickens]

No I mean cracked is a better read but they dont have much today.

 

[mmntech]

No I mean cracked is a better read but they dont have much today.

What about Buzzfeed, the Cracked for women and gay men?

Anyway, if you're going to surf around the IMFDA, might as well check out the IMCarDB.
http://www.imcdb.org/

 

[phucheneh]

I was reading the Wikipedia entry for this movie and was then lead to the page on the real events. For some reason, this is neat to me. Scary fuckin' cats, mang.

Patterson writes in his account that he wounded the first lion with one bullet from a Martini-Enfield chambered in .303 calibre. This shot struck the lion in its back leg, but it escaped. Later, it returned at night and began stalking Patterson as he tried to hunt it. He shot it through the shoulder, penetrating its heart with a .303 Lee Enfield, and found it lying dead the next morning not far from his platform. The second lion was shot at most nine times, five with a .303 Lee Enfield, three with a Martini-Henry carbine, and once with an unidentified rifle.[3]

The first was fired from atop a scaffolding Patterson had built near goat kills done by the lion. Two, both from the Lee Enfield, were shot into it eleven days later as the lion was stalking Patterson and trying to flee. When they had found the lion the next day thereafter, Patterson shot it three more times with the Lee Enfield, severely crippling it, and shot it three times with the Martini-Henry carbine, twice in the chest, and once in the head, which killed it. He claimed it died gnawing on a fallen tree branch, still trying to reach him.[4]

After 25 years as Patterson's floor rugs, the lions' skins were sold to the Chicago Field Museum in 1924 for a sum of US$5,000 (US $66,389.37 in 2012).[5] The lions' skins arrived at the museum in very poor condition. The lions were then reconstructed and are now on permanent display along with the original skulls.