1981

Director: Noel Marshall

Genre: Adventure thriller

What an experience it is to watch this.

If you don’t know, Roar is a film where a family of actors work alongside 150 untrained wild animals. There’s a very thin plot, about a family visiting their father who happens to own a ridiculous amount of lions. There’s also some poachers trying to kill the lions, and one evil lion that fights with the other ones. But that’s about it.

The main plot of the movie is really summarized by this image:

There are so many lions in this movie. As well as tigers and panthers and elephants and leopards. All of them living together.

The creators didn’t really write this movie. In fact, some of the lions share writing credits. They basically gave the actors different scenarios, such as hide, or run, or drive a motorcycle, and then they unleashed approximately fifty lions on them.

It’s truly amazing to see, and you will watch this with your mouth open at just the shock of seeing so many untrained dangerous animals onscreen.

This movie has become notorious for how many of the cast and crew were injured during the filming. And it makes total sense when you watch it. Because, and I can’t stress this enough, there are so many lions in this movie.

The characters try to look for a safe place. They go up the stairs and see lions looking down. They open a door and see lions running by. They hide in a closet and the room is overrun by twenty lions.

It’s insane.

It’s also hilarious.

There are many great moments when an actor is trying to read his line, but a lion keeps getting in the way.

Imagine filling a small room with fifty cute little cats and then going in that room. All the cats would want your attention, to be fed, or just to play.

That’s Roar. Except instead of little cats, there are giant wild lions. Much bigger than people, with claws that can (and did) seriously injure someone.

It might seem like this is similar to watching america’s funniest home videos. Or a youtube compilation of people getting hurt. But there’s more to it than that.

There’s a crazy amount of both tension and adorableness going on here. The animals do look very cute and cuddly, but you know in the back of your head that they could attack anyone at any time. It feels like no one is safe, and I don’t mean the characters in the movie. I mean the real life actors and filmmakers.

This movie is like if you took a very simple family drama and just added an absurd amount of lions to it. The actors feel like they’re trying to squeeze out a plot, but the vast amount of animals keep interrupting.

You really have to see this for yourself. It’s more of an feast for your senses than a standard movie. A roller coaster of disbelief and shock.

This movie is a great example of why people love cult movies. It’s bizarre, totally unique, and something you would never see from any film studio.

It’s also ridiculous amounts of fun to watch.

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