All the Colors of the Dark (Tutti i colori del buio; They’re Coming to Get You!). Sergio Martino, 1972.
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Edition screened: Severin Blu-ray, released 2019. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: A priest shoves a knife under a dog’s jaw. This happens off camera but we see blood dripping from the dog’s mouth, 36:03-36:30.
The Amazing Transplant. Doris Wishman (as Louis Silver), 1974.
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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Twilight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 71 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Preparati la bara!). Ferdinando Baldi, 1968.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2015. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 88 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
In which not-Franco Nero enlists the help of not-Jack Albertson to defeat an uncharacteristically evil not-Steve McQueen.
Five Easy Pieces. Bob Rafelson, 1970.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #546, included in America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 98 minutes.
Summary: Around 1:22:45 Karen Black tells a 30-second story about her kitten that was run over by a car.
Fly Me. Cirio H. Santiago and Jonathan Demme, 1973.
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Edition screened: Included in Shout! Factory Lethal Ladies Collection Vol. 2 DVD set, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 72 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Roger Corman’s Cult Classics Triple Feature ‘Lethal Ladies’ Collection Vol. 2 also includes:
Cover Girl Models (1975 Cirio H. Santiago)
The Arena (1974 Steve Carver)
Head. Bob Rafelson, 1968.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #544, included in America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Head reminds us that The Monkees were not an emulation of The Beatles in general but of the film Help! specifically. Head surpasses individual episodes of The Monkees, but also bests Help! in many ways as Help! relies on stupendous music and some heart warming set pieces to compensate for an otherwise tedious watch. Like The Beatles’ precedent, Head makes hay of a youthful fanbase’s naïve understanding of psychedelia to disguise a series of unrelated skits as a trippy experience. While Help! dawdles around an absurd plot that absolutely begs for Mike Meyers, the superior direction of Head focuses on legitimate and timely social criticism softened with love beads and Lennonesque wordplay.
All members of The Beatles and The Monkees looked and spoke beautifully in the late 1960s, but the movie camera liked Ringo best among The Beatles, and similarly Micky Dolenz carries most of the acting and screen time in Head. Musical pieces show conclusively that Dolenz, Nesmith, and Tork play their instruments with ease, expertise, and panache and I can’t believe we’re still indulging that stupid discussion.
The King of Marvin Gardens. Bob Rafelson, 1972.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #550, included in America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Last Picture Show. Peter Bogdanovich, 1971.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #549, included in America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 126 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Let Me Die a Woman. Doris Wishman, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Twilight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 79 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Our Selves Unknown. Edwin Rostron, 2016.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2, released 2024. No audio track. Runtime approximately 3 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
An artful and enjoyable silent animated film.
A Safe Place. Henry Jaglom, 1971.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #548, included in America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: Short, calm scenes of Orson Welles in a zoo; no depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Silent Hill: Revelation. Michael J. Bassett, 2012.
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Edition screened: Universal Blu-ray, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals or to Sean Bean.
Teenage Innocence (Little Miss Innocence). Chris Warfield, 1972.
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Edition screened: Included with Teenage Seductress on Vinegar Syndrome Drive-In Collection DVD #073, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 72 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 02/5❤
To Fire You Come at Last. Sean Hogan, 2023.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 45 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
The story of To Fire You Come at Last involves a group of socially disparate men who carry a coffin to the burial ground as night falls. An excellent supplemental video essay, On The Lych Way – Corpse Road Chronicler Dr. Stuart Dunn Discusses the Pathways of the Dead, illuminates the real pathways set aside in 18th-century England for these journeys.
Tora! Tora! Tora! Richard Fleischer, 1970.
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox Blu-ray, released 2009. English and Japanese languages with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 144 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea. Sean Hogan, 2017.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 22 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
A very good tale of holiday haunting in the tradition of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas.
Apocalypse Now Redux. Francis Ford Coppola, 2001.
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Edition screened: Paramount Blu-ray included in Apocalypse Now: Full Disclosure box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 196 minutes.
Summary: Murder of a water buffalo.
Details:
1) An adult water buffalo or cow with her feet bound is suspended in a net and airlifted by helicopter, 30:42-31:15.
2) A tethered water buffalo is killed by several hard machete strikes, 3:07:53 - 3:08:37. There are about three actual strikes to the animal’s neck and back, with these clips repeated several times and intercut with Colonel Kurtz being killed in a similar manner. It is violent and real, but not as horrific and exploitatively vulgar as slaughter scenes in many other films.
Drive, He Said. Jack Nicholson, 1970.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #547, included in America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: Disregard for animals’ well-being.
Details:
1) A long scene late in the film shows a student setting all the reptiles, insects, and rodents loose in a college biology lab. Although we see no harm to any animal, there is stress and tension because predators and prey are turned loose on the floor together.
2) A caged leopard is exhibited throughout the film as a college basketball team’s mascot. There is no physical harm to the cat although psychological stress caused by the tiny cage and noisy environments is apparent.
