The Dinner. Oren Moverman, 2017.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Dinosaur and the Baby
The Dinosaur and the Baby (Le dinosaure et le bébé, dialogue en huit parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard). André S. Labarthe, 1967.
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Edition screened: Included on Lionsgate Contempt (Le Mépris) Blu-ray, released 2010. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 61 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A wonderful discussion between Lang and Godard, in which Godard asks pretentious, ethereal questions about art, and Lang answers them with grandfatherly wisdom. Entertaining, enlightening, and well worth watching.
Disciples of the Crow
Disciples of the Crow (originally filmed as ‘Children of the Corn’). John Woodward, 1983.
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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-ray Children of the Corn, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 19 minutes.
Summary: Rabbits murdered for religious sacrifice.
Details:
1) Live animals including a large bullfrog are (seemingly) dropped into boiling water, 1:27-1:36. We don’t actually see them land in the pot.
2) A rabbit is trapped in a steel-jawed trap. We see him struggling for his life and screaming in pain 7:32-7:46, which is exactly what these poor animals go through, you miserable cowardly ‘sportsmen’.
3) Mutilated rabbit hanging with blood dripping, as a sacrifice, 8:24-8:31.
4) Another mangled rabbit as religious sacrifice, 14:42-14:44.
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
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Edition screened: Excerpt included on Mystic Fire DVD Maya Deren: Experimental Films, released 2002. Original Haitian on-site audio track. Runtime approximately 8 minutes.
Summary: Chickens killed in a religious ceremony.
Details: We see three chickens killed by having their nicks twisted during a voodoo dance ritual, 6:05-6:50. Of course these animals were killed, but the 1950s’ documentation is not bloody or violent. A child would think the chickens merely were being twirled around.
The Mystic Fire DVD includes this 8-minute excerpt from a longer film that Teiji and Cherel Ito created from many hours of documentary footage that Deren made in Haiti but never used.
The Doctor and the Devils
The Doctor and the Devils. Freddie Francis, 1985.
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Edition screened: Scream Factory Blu-ray, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.
Summary: Cock fights to the death.
Details:
1) A street scene of peddlers includes an apparent dead rat vender, 4:09-4:16. He holds a live white rat in his hands as he strolls, and is fitted with a shoulder armature from which is suspended dead rats.
2) Cock fighting scene including two close shots of the dead bloody roosters, 43:46-46:18.
Dog Star Man
Dog Star Man. Stan Brakhage, 1961-1964.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #518 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two, released 2010. Silent. Runtime 74 minutes, 34 seconds.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Domain of the Moment
The Domain of the Moment. Stan Brakhage, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #518 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two, released 2010. Silent. Runtime 14 minutes, 33 seconds.
Summary: Beginning at 49:07 in “Program 3” and continuing through 52:56, we see documentary footage of a snake constricting and swallowing a mouse or guinea pig.
Doom Asylum
Doom Asylum. Richard Friedman, 1987.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 79 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Terrible script, characterization, and actors lead to the decision to just play the whole thing - and I mean every painful second - for laughs of which there are none.
Dracula Sucks
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Edition screened: Included in Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray set #234, 5 Films • 5 Years Vol 3: Golden Age Erotica, released 2018 Previously released as VS 058. English language. Runtime approximately 75 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. 2/5❤
Dream No Evil
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow box set American Horror Project Vol. 2, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A watchable and interesting movie, hobbled by occasional voice-over omnipotent narration that explains (ruins) the otherwise interesting transitions from the real world to Grace’s fantasy world.
The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke
The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke (Dreams of the Archduke). Jeff Keen, 1979-84.
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Edition screened: Included in BFI Gazwrx: The Films of Jeff Keen Blu-ray/DVD set, released 2009. Silent. Runtime approximately 7 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Drive Angry
Drive Angry. Patrick Lussier, 2011.
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Edition screened: Summit Blu-ray, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.
Summary: Car runs over a snake.
Details: Quick image of a speeding car running over a snake at 42:17. Slow motion viewing reveals that the snake already is dead and somewhat mangled before the car hits it.
Drunken Master
Drunken Master (Zui quan). Woo-Ping Yuen, 1978.
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Edition screened: Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray #166, released 2017. English dub or Cantonese or Mandarin with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 111 minutes.
Summary: An eel is used for a quick gag early in the film but there is no suggestion of it being harmed.
Dungeon of Harrow
Dungeon of Harrow. Pat Boyette, 1962.
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Edition screened: Included in Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray set #202, 5 Films • 5 Years Vol 2: Horror and Exploitation, released 2018; also released previously as VS# 008. English language. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: Three ridiculous animal props are summoned by an evil ghost early in the film, but there is no harm or even humiliation to the clumsily hinged wooden snake, the flapping bat made from a pillowcase, or the giant tarantula Halloween decoration.
Duplicity III
Duplicity III. Stan Brakhage, 1980.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #518 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two, released 2010. Silent. Runtime 22 minutes, 18 seconds.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Easter Parade
Easter Parade. Charles Walters, 1948.
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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Eight Hours of Terror
Eight Hours of Terror (Hachijikan no kyôfu). Seijun Suzuki, 1957.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Vol. 2: Border Crossings: The Crime and Action Movies, released 2018. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 77 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Emma Mae
Emma Mae. Jamaa Fanaka, 1976.
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Edition screened: Included on Vinegar Syndrome Welcome Home Brother Charles Blu-ray #213, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Very different from Welcome Home Brother Charles, but equally good in most ways.
The Emperor Jones
The Emperor Jones. Dudley Murphy, 1933.
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Edition screened: Included on DVD #370 Paul Robeson: Icon, in Criterion 4-DVD set #369 Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 76 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Endless Summer
The Endless Summer. Bruce Brown, 1966.
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Edition screened: Image ‘Director’s Special Edition’ DVD, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: Comparatively mild fishing action, first in the Senegal segment and then in New Zealand.
L’Enfer (Chabrol)
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Edition screened: Included in Cohen Blu-ray set Three Classic Films by Claude Chabrol, released 2016. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle). Werner Herzog, 1974.
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Edition screened: Included in BFI The Werner Herzog Collection Blu-ray box set, released 2014. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 110 minutes.
Summary: Comparatively mild rural animal interaction
Details:
1) That stupid chicken “hypnotism” thing, 43:37-44:02. The chicken is fine.
2) A large dead hare in the kitchen background during other action, 44:25-44:56.
3) A marsh bird is seen eating a frog during an unrelated romantic narration by Kaspar, 1:09:37-1:10:10.
Bonus Points! A very nice scene in which Kaspar feeds a nestling, 40:07-40:41.
The Entity
The Entity. Sidney J. Furie, 1981.
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Edition screened: Anchor Bay Blu-ray, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 125 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
This movie left me flat. Made after better, scarier, more compelling films about demonic possession, The Entity adds demonic rape and associated nudity to the basic story line, but doesn’t use that potential horror or sexiness to the movie’s advantage.
Erik the Conqueror
Erik the Conqueror (Gli invasori). Mario Bava, 1961.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2017. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Everybody’s an Actor, Shakespeare Said
Everybody’s an Actor, Shakespeare Said. Barney Platts-Mills, 1968.
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Edition screened: Included on BFI ‘Flipside’ #13 Bronco Bullfrog, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 30 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
1964 Gottlieb Bowling Queen around 21:00.
Evil Come, Evil Go
Evil Come, Evil Go. Walt Davis, 1972.
Edition screened: Included in Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray set #235, 5 Films • 5 Years Vol 4: Horror and Exploitation, released 2018. Previously released as VS#026 English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 1.5/5❤
Excellent walk-on by a big cat.
Evil of Dracula
Evil of Dracula (Chi o suu bara). Michio Yamamoto, 1974.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray set The Bloodthirsty Trilogy, released 2018. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Evil of Frankenstein
The Evil of Frankenstein. Freddie Francis, 1964.
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Edition screened: Included in Universal Blu-ray set Hammer Horror: 8-Film Collection, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.
Summary: Murdered lambs.
Details: Dead, slightly bloody, lamb carcasses are found scattered on a field, with Dr. Frankenstein’s creation eating one of them, 27:42-28:12.
Eye Myth
Eye Myth. Stan Brakhage, 1967.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #518 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two, released 2010. Silent. Runtime 9 seconds.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
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