Sabrett

I did a search for this topic and nothing came up, so....

I for one, hate watching movies with an animal death in it (dog, cat, etc). Is there some type of a movie site that has a list of movies that have them, so I can avoid them?

The movie that I'm curious about is The Descent. I just bought it, and was wondering if it had one.


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JaxComet

I feel the same way. I tend to avoid movies, even those with stellar reviews, if I know before that animals die or are harmed. As far as human deaths in movies, bring em' on, the more the better.

Groucho

It doesn't bother me, but my wife goes nuts when this happens so I try to research films before we watch them together. I remember I showed her Dances with Wolves and she totally lost it (I'd completely forgotten that there's a TON of animal deaths in there).

I'm frankly surprised that she still watches The Shield with me.

One of the most surprisingly horrendous films for animal lovers has got to be Babe 2: Pig in the City. I remember when I saw that there was a little girl, probably six or so, screaming in horror at all the goings on.

Kudama

I would advise against renting Fresh.
Also, whatever you do, don't watch The Food of the Gods. That movie contains tons of real killing (not just representative) of rats. Shooting with .22s, electrocution and drowning. Graphic and real time.
Oh yeah. Steer clear of Cannibal Holocaust unless you have a grudge against turtles.

The Cow

Old Yeller, Bambi, King Kong...

GuessWho

Faces of Death

Filmmaker

There's actual footage of bovine slaughter (no fx here, folks) in APOCALYPSE NOW.

Randy Miller III

Christian Bale's character kills a dog in American Psycho, but it's shown offscreen.

Groucho

My wife was fine with that but the scene where he nearly had her walking out of the theater.

Speaking of dogs, if you love them, you won't like Amores Perros.

GuessWho

boiled rabbit in Fatal Attraction

TomOpus

This thread might be giving some people a nice wish list

The Bus

Apocalypto
Cannibal Holocaust
Hei tai yang 731 (Men Behind the Sun)
The Ring
Twister
Jurassic Park

FantasticVSDoom

Paging kvrdave immediately...

daniel18

1900
City of God

Groucho

Assuming you're talking about the scene where that was in The Lost World.

IDrinkMolson

Me, Myself, & Irene
Vacation

dugan

I haven't seen it, but doesn't Fast Food Nation climax in a slaughterhouse?

And, of course, there are dogs killed in Mimic and Alien³.

EDIT: Need I mention the famous scene in Oldboy?

In The Hills Have Eyes, a dog is killed offscreen, and onscreen there's a scene where a cannibal bites off a budgie's head and pours its blood into his mouth.

devilshalo

Hollowman
John Carpenter's The Thing
Braveheart

Mondo Kane

Or it could have been the meals that the raptors and T-Rex are given behind the fences.

inri222

If animal death offends you
I am talking about the real deal.
No special effects
No humane society disclaimers
And shown onscreen

Then Do Not Watch These

Carne
Time of the Wolf
Benny's Video
Viva La Muerte
Andrei Rublev
Cache

mllefoo

To be fair, that scene was a film of an actual ritual and that animal was eaten.

GIjon213

The Lion King

Mondo Kane

I don't know of any site, but my advice would be to just stay away from foreign movies.

GIjon213

And Disney.

Filmmaker

How was I being unfair??? The original poster wants to avoid films that show animal killings and AN shows a real one, not an fx or CGI trick, so it doesn't matter whether the meat of the animal was used to feed an entire African village for a year, or the pelt of the animal was used to clothe a million Down Syndrome kids left for dead north of Nome, Alaska in February, the poster should probably avoid watching it like the plague, if he is disturbed by such.