Demon. Marcin Wrona, 2015.
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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. Polish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Magnificent Obsession. John Stahl, 1935.
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Edition screened: Included with Criterion Blu-ray #497 Magnificent Obsession, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Criterion includes this early adaptation of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel as a bonus Blu-ray in their release of Douglas Sirk’s (superior) 1954 Magnificent Obsession.
The Velvet Underground. Todd Haynes, 2021.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1164, released 2022. English language. Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
The Criterion release also includes three short films made by associates of Warhol and The Velvet Underground, and relevant to the environment of the time and place:
• Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1965 Jonas Mekas, 12 minutes)
• Venus in Furs (1965 Piero Heliczer, 22 minutes)
• Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches [excerpt] (1969 Jonas Mekas, 8 minutes)
Sinthia: The Devil’s Doll. Ray Dennis Steckler (as Sven Christian), 1969.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set The Incredibly Strange Films of Ray Dennis Steckler, released 2022. English language. Runtime approximately 77 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
This is about as good and bad as an erotic underground performance art film possibly could be.
