Sweeney Todd (Burton)

Sweeney Todd. Tim Burton, 2007.

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Edition screened: Warner DVD, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 116 minutes.

Summary: Insect smashing.

Details: While making pies and singing at Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter flicks an insect to the floor and steps on it at 09:25, and smashes another with her rolling pin at 11:25. Cartoonish.

The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter. Atom Egoyan, 1997.

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Edition screened: Included in Artificial Eye The Atom Egoyan Collection Blu-ray set, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 112 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #555, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Extra features on the Criterion Blu-ray include Dermont McQuarrie’s 1986 documentary, Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, with no animal violence.

Sweet Sugar

Sweet Sugar. Michel Levesque, 1972.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-Ray #171, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.

Summary: Abuse of cats; animal mutilation.

Details:

1) A cat in a small cage is injected (off screen) with a serum 42:00-42:11. The cat becomes violently upset, then numerous other caged cats are brought into the room. They agitated cats are roughy thrown over a barrier wall so they will attack prisoners on the other side, 43:00-43:40.

2) A mutilated cow head hangs from a rope, 55:40-56:59.

The Swinging Cheerleaders

The Swinging Cheerleaders. Jack Hill, 1974.

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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Sword of Vengeance

Sword of Vengeance (Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance/Kozure Ôkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru). Kenji Misumi, 1972.

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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #841, Lone Wolf and Cub, released 2016. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

This is the first of six films in the original Lone Wolf and Cub series.

Swordfish

Swordfish. Dominic Sena, 2001.

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Edition screened: Warner DVD, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 99 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Sworn to the Drum

Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella. Les Blank, 1995.

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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray set #737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 34 minutes.

Criterion indexes the related 2014 making-of documentary A Master Percussionist after this title.

Sybil

Sybil. Daniel Petrie, 1976.

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Edition screened: Warner 30^th Anniversary Edition DVD, released 2006. English language. Runtime approximately 187 minutes.

Summary: Depictions of a decapitated cat.

Details:

1) A series of drawings illustrate Sybil’s nightmare involving a decapitated cat. Two drawings showing the dismembered animal are shown consecutively, 59:42 through 1:00:02. A third drawing is shown 1:00:25-1:00:34.

2) We share Sybil’s actual nightmare in which she is pursued by a decapitated cat. We first see the screeching cat in a trash can with only its head protruding. Following is a 1-second shot of a headless cat howling from a tree (2:08:30), and the head alone staring up from the floor of the barn loft (2:09:27-2:09:29).

1973 Bally Monte Carlo in one arcade, and other pinball machines in another arcade.

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes. William Greaves, 1968 & 2003.

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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #360, released 2006. English language. Cumulative runtime of two feature films approximately 174 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals in any material on either disc.

The Criterion DVD set includes Greaves’ original Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968, 75 minutes), along with Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2003, 99 minutes). 

Sympathy for the Devil (Godard)

Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One). Jean-Luc Godard, 1968.

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Edition screened: Universal DVD, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

This film is approximately 50% live footage of the Rolling Stones rehearsing “Sympathy for the Devil” in studio, cut with fictional depictions of Black Panthers and ironic social protest.

Symptoms

Symptoms. José Ramón Larraz, 1974.

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Edition screened: BFI ‘Flipside’ Blu-ray #32, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.

Summary: Dead game birds.

Details: 

1) There are approximately five quick images of game birds caught in traps or being carried dead, each of which is only about 1 second long and visually indistinct due to rain or darkness. Only one image is particularly gruesome, below:

2) The camera lingers on a dead white goose that hangs with blood draining from its slit throat, 25:58-26:08.

The BFI release includes several cast and crew interview along with two decent documentaries about Larraz and his films: On Vampyres and Other Symptoms (Celia Novis, 2011, 74 minutes) and From Barcelona to Tunbridge Wells: The Films of José Larraz (Andrew Starke & Pete Tombs, 1999, 24 minutes).

Taboo (Stevens)

Taboo. Kirdy Stevens, 1980.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #128, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 3/5❤

Taboo II/Taboo III

Taboo II/Taboo III. Kirdy Stevens, 1982-1984.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #142, released 2016. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 190 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals in either feature.

Taboo II, 1982, approximately 97 minutes. 4/5❤

Taboo III, 1984, approximately 93 minutes. 3/5❤