Avenged (Savaged). Michael S. Ojeda, 2013.
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Edition screened: Uncork’d Blu-ray, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: A dead coyote or wild dog is found in the desert in a state of decomposition, 5:08-5:30.
Blue Movie (Verstappen)
Blue Movie. Wim Verstappen, 1971.
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Edition screened: Included on Cult Epics The Dutch Sex Wave Collection, released 2017. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film. 2.5/5❤
The Blue Movie BD in the Cult Epics set also includes three short films:
• Heart Beat Fresco. 1966, Pim de la Parra
• Joop. 1969, Pim de la Parra
• Joop Strikes Again. 19670, Wim Verstappen
Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers. Jim Jarmusch, 2005.
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Edition screened: Universal DVD, released 2006. English language. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Burmese Harp
The Burmese Harp (Biruma No Tategoto). Kon Ichikawa, 1956.
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Edition screened: Eureka! Masters of Cinema # BD 013, released 2012. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 117 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
City of Lost Children
City of Lost Children. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1995.
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Edition screened: Columbia/TriStar DVD, released 1999. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 112 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes. Jim Jarmusch, 2003.
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Edition screened: MGM/UA DVD, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Commando Fury
Commando Fury. Godfrey Ho, 1986.
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Edition screened: Watched on Amazon. English dub. Runtime approximately 81 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Nothing to see here. Nothing entertaining, exciting, sexy, or inadvertently funny. Do not be misled by Amazon’s image of the girl in the black boots, criminally opposite of anything in the film.
Embodiment of Evil
Embodiment of Evil (Encarnação do Demônio). José Mojica Marins, 2008.
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Edition screened: Synapse Blu-ray, released 2011. Portuguese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: Desecration of a pig’s body; animals used as instruments of torture.
Details:
1) 1:03:56 through 1:04:27, we see the body of a large dead pig, clean on the exterior and stitched up the belly. The stitches are snipped, releasing a nude woman.
2) Soon thereafter are two torture scenes involving animals. The first shows a woman’s face forced into a crock full of live roaches. The second involves a large rat turned loose on a restrained woman after a honey-like substance has been poured on her body. We do not see the roaches or the rat injured.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2022. English and Mandarin with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 139 minutes.
Summary: “Comedic” depiction of extreme physical abuse of a dog.
Details: From 1:15:30 through 1:16:33, a leashed Pomeranian is used as a martial arts weapon. The dog repeatedly is twirled on his leash and used as a rope dart, then kicked hard enough to send him soaring across a large room.
Frank & Eva
Frank & Eva: Living Apart Together (Frank en Eva). Pim de la Parra, 1973.
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Edition screened: Included on Cult Epics The Dutch Sex Wave Collection, released 2017. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Heart Beat Fresco
Heart Beat Fresco. Pim de la Parra, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included on Cult Epics The Dutch Sex Wave Collection, released 2017. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 10 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
Joop
Joop. Pim de la Parra, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included on Cult Epics The Dutch Sex Wave Collection, released 2017. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 10 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
Joop Strikes Again
Joop Strikes Again (Joop slaat weer toe). Wim Verstappen, 1970.
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Edition screened: Included in Cult Epics The Dutch Sex Wave Collection, released 2017. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 10 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George. Nicholas Hynter, 1994.
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Edition screened: MGM/UA DVD, released 1994. English language. Runtime approximately 110 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Monster (Jenkins)
Monster. Patty Jenkins, 2003.
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Edition screened: Included on Columbia/TriStar DVD, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 119 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Purge
The Purge. James DeMonaco, 2013.
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Edition screened: Universal Blu-ray, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The game room in the house has a 1980 Stern Galaxy, and a 1992 Williams The Getaway: High Speed II. Partial views of both starting at 1:04:10.
Redd Inc.
Redd Inc. (Inhuman Resources/Headhunt). Daniel Krige, 2012.
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Edition screened: Green Light Blu-ray, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.
Summary: There is a closeup of a cockroach lying on its back, apparently near death. No other animals or references to animals in the film.
Szinbád
Szinbád. Zoltán Huszárik, 1971.
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Edition screened: Second Run DVD #058, released 2011. Hungarian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Second Run DVD also includes Peter Strickland’s Szinbád: An Appreciation (2010, 12 minutes).
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano. John Huston, 1984.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #410, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 112 minutes.
Summary: DÃa de los Muertos festivities include amateur Capeas, a bullfighting style in which the bulls are provoked with pink capes but not injured.
The Criterion DVD also includes Donald Brittain’s 1976 documentary Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry.
A Very Long Engagement
A Very Long Engagement. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2004.
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Edition screened: Warner DVD, released 2005. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 133 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry. Donald Brittain, 1976.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #410 Under the Volcano, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 99 minutes.
Summary: Physical abuse of bulls
Details:
1) A man hacks at a skinned bull skull with a hatchet, 47:07-47:45. The intact eyeballs and general violence make this unpleasant.
2) Bulls are downed, tied, hit, dragged, etc. as part of rodeo “fun”, 58:02 - 59:37.