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The Evolution of Horror

NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 19: Roar! (1981) & Grizzly Man (2005)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

What happens when filmmakers mess with REAL wild animals? This week Mike and Rhianna Dhillon discuss Noel Marshall's insane and ill-judged eco-adventure movie ROAR (1981) and Werner Herzog's chilling documentary GRIZZLY MAN (2005). 

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0:00.0

The So far this season we've looked at animal attack films that were shot under relatively

0:29.4

controlled circumstances by movie studios in reasonably safe environments.

0:35.3

But what happens when independent filmmakers obsessed with capturing the best footage they

0:40.6

can work with real dangerous animals up close and personal with no

0:46.7

safety measures in place.

0:48.7

Come on you should throw in your friends.

0:51.7

No!

0:54.0

In 1981, actress Tippee Hedron and her husband, filmmaker Noel Marshall,

1:00.0

completed making a film that had taken them over a decade to make, about a family living

1:06.2

on a nature preserve in Africa with tigers, lions, and other big cats.

1:11.2

Oh, no.

1:15.0

A,

1:17.0

Marshall, Hedderon and her family shot the movie together with over 150 untamed wild big cats.

1:27.0

And while nobody died, over 70 members of the cast and crew were seriously injured during production, including cinematographer

1:35.7

Yandabont, who was scalped by a lion and hospitalized.

1:40.0

The film, Raw, has since become known as the most dangerous film ever made.

1:45.4

Well, we're into autumn now.

1:47.0

Expedition 2001 coming to an end.

1:49.3

The bears moving safely towards their winter dens.

1:51.8

The fox is hiding in the woods, safe from the humans that

1:54.8

would come to harm them.

1:55.8

Twenty years later, filmmaker Werner Hurtog made a documentary that assembled the footage of

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