Movie Details
| Title: | Roar | |
| Director: | Noel Marshall | |
| Year: | 1981 | |
| Genre: | Adventure | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.11.26 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.11.26 | Blu-ray | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2026 This one's been on the shelf since Drafthouse Films was a thing. It's pretty notorious due to the film involving real wild animals and multiple injuries while shooting, but I think I didn't realize just how many fucking lions are in this movie. It's too many lions! I'd be freaked out if a movie had this many house cats in one room. It's like a joke how many lions there are. They're the movie. There's barely a story here. it's just lions. The story about the movie and how it was made is way more interesting than the story in the movie, but really it's just an hour and a half of lions. Some tigers, jaguars, cheetahs, elephants, what have you, but mostly lions. The first 20 or so minutes is extremely anxiety inducing. Like, this could have been Grizzly Man but with lions. Really it's astonishing that it wasn't? To be honest I'd always left this on the shelf because I thought I knew its deal and actually sitting through it wasn't necessary but I was wrong. It's overwhelming how crazy this movie is. And there's like light-hearted playful music going on throughout the hole thing which is also bizarre. I mean the movie's not a horror movie or anything but the idea that this would be like a family film to take kids to? There's a message in the beginning titles saying no animals were harmed in the making of this picture, and another protracted message at the end reiterating that the lion deaths in the narrative of the film were not real. But the lions eat an entire zebra carcass on screen! One of them drags the fucking zebra's head into the house. There's like thirty lions covered in blood in the living room of this house and they thought it would play for small children? What the fuck? Astonishing. Amazing that this movie exists. Amazing that someone thought to make this movie. I know there's a strong conservationist message behind this, and I'm all for that, but not in the house, man! Although it's funny for how massive and ferocious these creatures are, once they close their eyes and stick out their tongue a little bit they're adorable. As long as they're not covered in the blood of their kill that is. |
