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Blonde Cobra

Blonde Cobra. Ken Jacobs, 1963.

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Edition screened: Included on Keno Lorber Blu-ray Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 33 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. A dead chicken, like from a butcher shop, is handled oddly, briefly.


Fraternity Vacation

Fraternity Vacation. James Frawley, 1985.

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Edition screened: Included on Image DVD Fraternity Vacation/Reform School Girls, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.


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

High Life

High Life. Claire Denis, 2018

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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 113 minutes.


Summary: Images of dead dogs.


Details:

1) A dog lies dead in a stream, 24:10-24:20.

2) A neglected kennel with dogs lying dead or near death, 1:32:24-1:34:14.


Hot Legs/California Gigolo

Hot Legs/California Gigolo. Bob Chinn, 1979.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome DVD #071 Peekarama: Hot Legs/California Gigolo, released 2016. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 150 minutes.


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


Hot Legs, 1979, approximately 79 minutes. 1.5/5

California Gigolo, 1979, approximately 71 minutes. 3/5


I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake. Ken Loach, 2017.

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Edition screened: eOne Blu-ray, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.


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


Reform School Girls

Reform School Girls. Tom DeSimone, 1986.

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Edition screened: Included on Image DVD Fraternity Vacation/Reform School Girls, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.


Summary: Implication of a murdered kitten.


Details: Pat Ast chases a kitten across the dormitory, attempting to stomp on it. We see only floor’s-eye-view shots of her gigantic shoes descending, but she apparently is successful in smashing the kitten at 1:07:55 based on reaction shots from the girls. No blood or dead kitten depicted, but the worst kind of cheap laughs for the cheaply enlaughed.


Wild Things (McNaughton)

Wild Things. John McNaughton, 1998.

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Edition screened: Arrow UHD, released 2022. English language. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals, despite scenes filmed at an alligator farm.


A 1975 Chicago Coin Olympics can be identified in the closing credits.


Witchfinder General

Witchfinder General. Michael Reeves, 1968.

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Edition screened: Tigon Blu-ray, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.


Summary: Implication of shooting a horse.


Details: At 59:39 we see Vincent Price shoot at a soldier on horseback and hear the horse whinny; cut to the man rising up from the ground uninjured but no sign of the horse.


The Tigon release also includes Reeves’ 1961 film Intrusion (10 minutes, silent, black-and-white, no animals).