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ShortHand: ROAR - "If Disney Made a Snuff Film"

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, H&S take a look at an 80s cult film that has truly earned its stripes as “the most dangerous movie ever made”.

‘Roar’ was filmed using 150 untrained and untamed big cats. And although no animals were intentionally harmed during the making of the movie, the same most definitely cannot be said about the cast and crew.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. Welcome to Shorthand. Very sleepy Shorthand.

0:18.0

Bit of a sleepy shorthand, we're banging the three o'clock slump today. Really timed this

0:23.4

accidentally, but we're going to wake up with scary animals. We are indeed because this is quite

0:31.2

the story. Yeah, nightmare feel. But like a nightmare that somebody could have just like not

0:38.2

just avoidable. Yeah, very the most avoidable nightmare. Let's get into it. Hit Flix said quote,

0:46.9

it's like Walt Disney went insane and shot a snuff version of Swiss family Robinson. So an incredible

0:52.6

tweet the other day that was like I'm convinced that Disney only made the film frozen. So when

0:57.2

you Google Disney frozen, the fact that he's crygently interred is no one here at the top of the

1:03.1

bay. Oh my god. I mean, it's like believing in a Loch Ness monster. It doesn't hurt anyone.

1:08.6

Next up movies.com. But quote, just watching it feels dangerous. And Complex magazine said it was

1:17.4

quote, like watching a live action Lion King as Mufasa holds a switchblade to your throat.

1:24.3

I mean, I would argue he's a lion. So it's just like he holds his open jaws around your throat.

1:30.1

Or maybe he's learned how to use a switchblade. He's grown a possible thumbs up. I scary this

1:35.5

film. But the sentiment I can agree with of all three of those quotes. And those quotes are just

1:41.4

a few reviews of the film that has been described as the most dangerous movie ever made.

1:47.0

To be honest, we kind of agree with all of the above. And this week's short hand we are taking you

1:51.8

through the making of the 1981 cult film Raw as an OAR not like uncooked. OAR? Whatever.

2:04.2

A film that used 150 untrained untamed lions, tigers, leopards and kougas.

2:11.3

And left 70 cast and crew members hospitalized. Many of them with life changing injuries.

2:17.5

So let's get to it. In 1969, film producer Noel Marshall was on safari in Mozambique with his

2:25.1

wife, the Golden Globe winning star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Tippy Hedron. She's had

2:30.1

enough problems with animals. Leave her the fuck alone. This is the thing. So much of what is

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