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'Tiger King' has nothing on the insane 1981 big-cat adventure 'Roar,' now streaming via Drafthouse Films

Through Wednesday, a big-cat drama at least 22 times more nerve-wracking than the Netflix documentary "Tiger King" is streaming online in care of Drafthouse Films and the Music Box Theatre. I can only speak for my own eyebrows, but mine hit the ceiling in astonishment a minute into "Roar" and they haven't descended since.

Objectively terrible, yet full of queasy suspense regarding the blood shed for real by members of the cast

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