I get there are some weird films out there but asa tomato reviewer said
The wiki entry is tame. You see the looks on the faces of the “actors” in the clips and there is true mortal panic in their eyes.
Discussion clip here Roar" actors battle animals in newly-released 1981 film
As a final note per the below quote Tippi Hedren must have a brain the size of a baseball.
That sounds completely insane. Not sure if I want to see it really…
Love the tagline “no animals were harmed in the making of this film - 70 cast and crew members were”.
Darn, it’s not on Netflix.
Dennis
Wow…America must not have been a litigious society yet.
I wonder if this movie was one of MyLord’s citations in his Lion vs Tiger thread.
Someone has never seen Visitor Q.
It’s on YouTube.
This movie was released in Australia in 1981, and it actually aired numerous times on Aussie TV later in the 1980s. I can’t remember if we saw it in the theater, but i know that my mother, my sister and i watched it together at least once, possibly more, on VHS and/or on TV.
The movie never seemed especially gory or scary to me, partly, i guess, because i was a teenage boy who reveled in that stuff anyway, and partly because i also assumed that all of the blood and the attacks were carefully choreographed and fake.
I don’t think i had ever heard before about all the real attacks and other problems on the set. Pretty crazy!
The imdb Trivia page on this film is outrageous:
My favorite item:
I’ll never listen to that Katy Perry song the same way again.
funny thing is I live near a big cat preserve… I think that’s the one …
I am not sure I want to actually watch this movie but after watching that CBS clip I think I would find a full length making of documentary utterly fascinating. Certainly one of the most bizarre episodes in movie history.
White people. smh
If they cut out all the parts where people were running from the cats, the movie could have been done in 15 minutes.
#notalllions
You know, “getting eaten by lions” is not something I’d normally consider a white people’s problem.
Unless the white people in question actually went and gathered the lions, then arranged themselves on a buffet table for said lions so they could film the attacks to … make money? Jeebus cripes. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that other peoples may have done or do the same, but we white folk certainly are the poster children for smh sometimes.
On another point, did they not realize that by introducing those predators to the taste of human flesh, they were training them as maneaters? How many were killed after, and how many were released which may have later targeted people as food due to their experiences? … smh doesn’t cover it. This is closer tho. :eek:
All of these animals were gathered and kept on a private game reserve owned by the family. They lived and interacted with big cats regularly. Most if not all of the attacks were in the nature of playing or other incidental behaviors, not hunting. None of the animals were released into the wild.
That quote was from John Marshall, not Tippi. She probably wouldn’t refer to herself in the third-person anyway.
Americans wtf