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, leopards, cheetahs etc, but also general head-scratching, brain-bubbling accidental surrealism. It's the kind of movie that is at once documentary-like and so completely alien (ON THE BOWERY and THE INTERRUPTERS come to mind as two unlikely comparisons) that it feels like teleportation. Leaving the theater after the movie, the real world looked strange without three or four giant felines in my field of vision at all times.

One thing I did…

Jesus Fucking Christ, who thought it was a good idea to make a film this way?

Tippi Hendren and Noel Marshall must have had some sort of death wish to be raising the cats the way they were. Over 150 live, untamed big cats are used in the film. All the stunts are done by the actors themselves. Over 70 crew members were injured during filming. Its all wrapped up in a weird message of sorts about preserving wildlife, but it strangely avoids the point. The real message here is clear: the 1980s was a scary place.

Here is the entire plot from Wikipedia:

Hank (Marshall) lives contentedly with his wild animals: four tiger cubs, two elephants and 110 tigers,…

Rembrandt Q Pumpernickel didn't need to work hard to convince my roommate and me to go out and see this with him. His avid interest in it explained a lot of his houseguest behavior; if ever there was a rogue lion, it is RQP. Also, he chewed on my arm last night.

I can't imagine there's much I could add to the discussion of this film, but I felt like it was fascinating, terrifying, and fucking stupid all at the same time, which impressed me in a weird way. I also found it interesting that the character Mativo was the only sensible character in the film, and yet he was the one who was presented as comic relief. That says…

"You're lucky that Togar didn't get you" -Jerry,

I'm on Mativo's side... this should be tagged as horror.

HOLY SHIT have you seen this movie? Or... I'm not really sure I would call this a movie as much as evidence for committing a person to a mental health facility. Roar is the "story" of a man and his family who run a wildlife game preserve for big cats and all of the adventures that they have with those big cats. It's people talking while real life untrained lions nearly kill them for an hour and thirty-five minutes. As an unnerving experience it is rarely matched in film. From an ethical and cinematic standpoint this movie is kind of a dud.…

This is one of the most unique films I’ve ever watched. After hearing some of the behind the scenes for this movie I didn’t know exactly what I was in for. I watched Redlettermedia’s video on this movie and had been meaning to watch it since then. It didn’t disappoint at all. 

On most levels this fails as an actual movie but the concept, execution and behind the scenes knowledge make this movie great. For those that don’t know the director filmed this at an abandoned plantation and filled it with a bunch of a real untrained lion. Pretty much every lion attack in this movie is natural and unscripted which is why a lot of it feels so disjointed.…

Wenn mich das nächste mal jemand nach einem Film mit Löwen fragt (kam noch nie vor...), ja Halleluja, ist die Antwort dann klar!
Letztens "Boar", heute gibts "Roar", wohl einen der einzigartigsten Streifen, die ich je erleben durfte!

Aber um was geht es eigentlich in "Roar"?
Wenn ihr mich fragt, geht es um die Liebe zur Natur und zu exotischen Tieren... Großkatzen um genau zu sein!
Hank hat in Afrika eine Anlaufstelle für Wildkatzen aller Art eröffnet um dort in Ruhe ihr Verhalten und Interaktionen mit anderen Gattungen zu erforschen.
Als ihn seine zweibeinige Family besuchen kommt, gab's n kleinen Zahlendreher bei der Uhrzeit und so ist der gute Hank leider nicht daheim als seine Brut eintrudelt.
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