Violence to Animals in Film: September 2024

My Young Auntie

My Young Auntie (Zhang bei). Liu Chia-Liang, 1981.

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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language. Runtime approximately 119 minutes.

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

The painful cheap comedy is relentless even by Liu Chia-Liang’s standards. Just when I was thinking, Oh God, this is like a 1960’s musical but with the production numbers mercifully deleted, a group of smirking college boys broke into a song. Excruciating.

My Brother’s Wife

My Brother’s Wife. Doris Wishman, 1966.

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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 61 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Gil Kenan, 2024.

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Edition screened: Sony Blu-ray, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 115 minutes.

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

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Danny Steinmann, 1985.

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Edition screened: Included in Paramount Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection DVD set, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.

Summary: Cooking porn.

Details:

1) An uncouth woman cuts up a plucked chicken with undo satisfaction, 31:14-31:52. This scene starts with a quick cut to the decapitating whack right after the councilor has Tommy pinned to the wall to calm him.

2) A small cat is tossed from off-screen and rebounds off a seat in a diner, 36:43, and runs off insulted and annoyed. It was intended to look as though she sprang from nowhere onto the seat but clearly was tossed and doesn’t hit the seat at a natural angle.