Ever since Drafthouse Films decided to rerelease an old 1981 film called Roar, folks have been buzzing. Billed as one of the most dangerous movies ever made, this crazy long-lost experiment directed by Noel Marshall and starring Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith is unlike any movie you've ever seen. 

Why? Well, maybe the 100 real-life wild animals (most of them lions) has a little something to do with it. Don't believe us? Here's the trailer.

Roar was filmed entirely using real lions, tigers, jaguars, giraffes, elephants and a whole host of other unpredictable creatures. It's about a man (played by Marshall) who gets the bright idea to live with over 100 of these untrained animals. His family (including Hedren and their real-life daughter Melanie Griffith) decides to visit him, but by the time they find him in Africa, his entire farm has become overrun by these beasts, and so it turns into an increasingly absurd adventure story about this family trying to survive the insanity.

The movie bombed when it was first released in 1981 (it took 10 years and $17 million to make and only took in $2 million at the box office), and since then it's garnered a small but vital reputation as the kind of bad movie that just needs to be seen to be believed. And so naturally the guys at Drafthouse Films, who are experts when it comes to spotlighting obscure movies that need to be seen to be believed (here's looking at you, Miami Connection), got hold of the movie and is rereleasing it in theaters on April 2015.

While out in Austin during SXSW, we caught up with Drafthouse Films honcho Tim League and grilled him on a movie that's so insane and over-the-top, it's hard to believe it's even real. 

Check out what he had to say below.

Some more on Roar, from an earlier story on its trailer. 

ed note: Peter Hall contributed to this story.