Game Over. Bernard Villiot, 1984.
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Edition screened: Included on Arron Blu-ray The Grand Duel, released 2019. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 8 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
A 1981 Gottlieb Black Hole, figures prominently in the beginning of this short film.
Hellboy. Guillermo del Toro, 2004.
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Edition screened: Columbia Tristar Blu-ray, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 122 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. Innumerable snarling 3-eyed beasts intent on destroying the world are killed.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Guillermo del Toro, 2008.
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Edition screened: Universal Blu-ray, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Kingdom (Riget). Lars von Trier, 1994.
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Edition screened: Included in Mubi The Kingdom Trilogy Blu-ray box set, released 2023. Danish language with English subtitle. Cumulative runtime of all four episodes approximately 291 minutes.
Summary: Killing of a dog and lab rats.
Details:
1) Episode 4: A dog is clubbed to death while attacking to protect his owner, 11:12-12:21.
2) Episode 4: A dead bloody lab rat is found in a hospital hallway, 57:18.
3) Episode 4: More lab rats are shot in the hallway, 57:45-57:56.
The Kingdom II (Riget II, Episodes 5-8). Lars von Trier, 1997.
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Edition screened: Included in Mubi The Kingdom Trilogy Blu-ray box set, released 2023. Danish language with English subtitle. Cumulative runtime of all four episodes approximately 309 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Kingdom Exodus (Riget Exodus, Episodes 9-13). Lars von Trier, 2022.
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Edition screened: Included in Mubi The Kingdom Trilogy Blu-ray box set, released 2023. Danish language with English subtitle. Cumulative runtime of all five episodes approximately 321 minutes.
Summary:
Episode 10: An owl tears apart a rat’s body and eats some of it, 15:10-15:13.
Episode 13: A very brief hallucinogenic image of a mouse with his tail caught in a trap.
Also included is a good interview with von Trier, filmed in the late 90s as he has finished up Season 2 of The Kingdom and is prepping for Dancer in the Dark. The interviewer himself is not skilled, but von Trier is at his best rhetorically. Super casual and obviously the successor to Buñuel, Bergman or both.
Mercenaries from Hong Kong (Lie mo zhe). Jing Wong, 1982.
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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Rather than the usual Asian tale of two bickering warlords and the young fighters on both sides, Mercenaries from Hong Kong is American-style nostalgia about The Toughest Vet who assembles a crew of his old buddies for a rescue-and-revenge mission in an unpleasant place.
Passion Fever. Doris Wishman (as Louis Silver) and Stelios Jackson, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 70 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The same short account of how this disaster came to exist is repeated all over the internet.
The Running Jumping & Standing Film. Richard Lester, 1960.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #711 A Hard Day’s Night, released 2014. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 11 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Too Hot to Handle. Don Schain, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Shout! Factory Lethal Ladies Collection DVD set, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 75 minutes.
Details: A real cock fight intercut with a romantic scene, 55:17-57:08.
The Roger Corman’s Cult Classics Triple Feature ‘Lethal Ladies’ Collection also includes:
Firecracker (1981 Cirio H. Santiago)
TNT Jackson (1974 Cirio H. Santiago)
You Are On Indian Land. Michael Mitchell, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included on Clearcut BD in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 32 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete). Shunji Isai, 2001.
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Edition screened: Film Movement Blu-ray, released 2024. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 146 minutes.
Summary: A dead fish is on the beach.
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. 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. 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. 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.
Bridget Jones’s Diary. Sharon Maguire, 2001.
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Edition screened: Miramax Blu-ray, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. Mandie Fletcher, 2016.
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore). Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950.
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Edition screened: NoShame DVD, released 2005. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 98 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A Raisin in the Sun. Daniel Petrie, 1961.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #945, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 128 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Naked Fog. Joseph Sarno, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included in Film Movement’s Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series Vol. 5 Blu-ray, released 2023. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 2.5/5❤
Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John Cameron Mitchell, 2001.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #982, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Dream Scenario. Kristoffer Borgli, 2023.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: Brief image of a seemingly dead dog lying on Nicolas Cage’s kitchen floor, around the 90 minute mark. Exact timing was not documented, but the brief image is not particularly distressing.
The Boys in the Band. William Friedkin, 1970.
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Edition screened: Submitted by a friend. English language. Runtime approximately 118 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
