Roar (1981)

"The worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas." -- Jeff Goldblum The apex of irresponsible filmmaking, but start-to-finish completely harrowing even in the absence of much of a story, and ultimately more successful than probably anyone anticipated at illustrating…

matt lynch

The most reckless film-making I have ever seen. A production that has more plot than the actual movie. 71 lions and 26 tigers; 14 of them died, but not before hospitalizing two-thirds of the crew. What happens when your ego has a death wish. What happens when white people…

reibureibu

tippi hedren spent 40 years talking about the intolerable conditions of acting in marnie while hitchcock asked her on dates & never mentions making a movie where she feeds random african guys + her stepkids & biological daughter to actual lions

pd187

My fear going into ROAR is that the novelty of watching actors get mauled by big cats would wear off within about 20 minutes. Thankfully, it has much more to offer, not just in terms of variety of situations in which to place these actors and lions, tigers, panthers,…

laird

still one of the most successful failures in the history of things

Eli Hayes

If Hitchock and Cassavetes made a low budget JACKASS Movie with lions and tigers...

Brian Saur

A cute little slapstick family film about a nature researcher and his family fighting for a world where man and beast can live in feel-good harmony together that, due to genuinely unprecedented levels of egotistical delusion, unintentionally ended up closer to a snuff film…

Josh Lewis

When you put your family and crew through a sick game of Jumanji with lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, cougars, panthers and jaguars just for the sake of art. True genius is alienating.

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

There's a scene where a pack of real, blood-soaked wild lions run into a house carrying the limbs of dismembered prey and Tippi Hedren's response is "Wow, look at what the cat dragged in."

Cevin Kookman