TAATM #31: The Hunter vs. The Ghost And The Darkness

Heather and Paul take deadly aim at two films about men stalking big game in dangerous environments. First, Willem Dafoe is a loner hired by a shadowy pharmaceutical company to track down the world's last remaining Tasmanian tiger in the moody 2011 drama THE HUNTER; then, Val Kilmer is a railway engineer in turn-of-the-century Kenya who teams up with Michael Douglas to hunt down a pair of relentless maneating lions in the 1996 adventure THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS. Val Kilmer or violent Kiwis: which will prevail?