Heads Up, Ears Down

This blog accurately identifies depictions of violence and cruelty toward animals in films. The purpose is to provide viewers with a reliable guide so that such depictions do not come as unwelcome surprises. Films will be accurately notated, providing a time cue for each incident along with a concise description of the scene and perhaps relevant context surrounding the incident. In order to serve as a useful reference tool, films having no depictions of violence to animals will be included, with an indication that there are no such scenes. This is confirmation that the films have been watched with the stated purpose in mind.


Note that the word depictions figures prominently in the objective. It is a travesty that discussions about cruelty in film usually are derailed by the largely unrelated assertion that no animals really were hurt (true only in some films, dependent upon many factors), and that all this concern is just over a simulation. Not the point, whether true or false. We do not smugly dismiss depictions of five-year-olds being raped because those scenes are only simulations. No, we are appalled that such images are even staged, and we are appropriately horrified that the notion now has been planted into the minds of the weak and cruel.


Depictions of violence or harm to animals are assessed in keeping with our dominant culture, with physical abuse, harmful neglect, and similar mistreatment serving as a base line. This blog does not address extended issues of animal welfare, and as such does not identify scenes of people eating meat or mules pulling plows. The goal is to itemize images that might cause a disturbance in a compassionate household.


These notes provide a heads-up but do not necessarily discourage watching a film because of depicted cruelty. Consuming a piece of art does not make you a supporter of the ideas presented. Your ethical self is created by your public rhetoric and your private actions, not by your willingness to sit through a filmed act of violence.

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Gabbeh Clean The elusive top
Gai dimanche Clean The expansive middle
Galaxy Destroyer (Battle for the Lost Planet) Clean The expansive middle
Galileo Clean The expansive middle
The Game (Fincher) Clean The expansive middle
The Game (Rebane) Substantial The smeary bottom
Game 6 Clean The expansive middle
Game of Death Minimal The expansive middle
Game of Death Redux Clean The expansive middle
Game of Death II Clean The expansive middle
Game Night Clean The expansive middle
Game of Thrones: Seasons 1-8 Heavy The expansive middle
The Gang's All Here Clean The expansive middle
The Gangs of New York Substantial The expansive middle
Gangs of Wasseypur Clean The elusive top
Gangster VIP Clean The expansive middle
Gangster VIP 2 Clean The expansive middle
Ganja & Hess Clean The expansive middle
Gap-Toothed Women Clean The expansive middle
The Garden of Earthly Delight Clean The expansive middle
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Clean The expansive middle
The Gardner Clean The expansive middle
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers Heavy The expansive middle
Gas Food Lodging Clean The expansive middle
Gas Pump Girls Clean The expansive middle
Gash Clean The expansive middle
Gaslight (Cukor) Clean The expansive middle
Gaslight (Dickinson) Clean The expansive middle
Gasman Clean The expansive middle
Gate of Flesh Extreme The expansive middle
Gate of Hell Minimal The expansive middle
Gates of Heaven Clean The expansive middle
Gator Green Clean The expansive middle
Gavin & Stacey: The Christmas Special Clean The expansive middle
Gavotte Clean The expansive middle
Gazwrx: The Films of Jeff Keen Clean The elusive top
The Geek Clean The smeary bottom
Gemini Clean The expansive middle
Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait Clean The expansive middle
Genealogies of a Crime Clean The expansive middle
Genocide Heavy The expansive middle
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Clean The expansive middle
Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls Clean The expansive middle
Geometria Clean The expansive middle
George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn Minimal The expansive middle
George Bernard Shaw on Film: Eclipse Series #20 Clean The expansive middle
George Harrison: Living in the Material World Clean The expansive middle
George Washington (Green) Substantial The expansive middle
The Georgetown Loop CleanThe expansive middle
Germany Calling Clean The expansive middle
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices Clean The expansive middle
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Clean The expansive middle
Ghost Rider Clean The expansive middle
Ghost Stories for Christmas Minimal The elusive top
A Ghost Story Clean The expansive middle
Ghost Town Clean The expansive middle
Ghost Trip Clean The expansive middle
Ghost World Clean The elusive top
Ghostbusters Clean The expansive middle
The Ghoul Clean The expansive middle
Gia Clean The expansive middle
The Giant Claw Clean The expansive middle
Giorgio Moroder Presents "Metropolis" Clean The expansive middle
The Girl Clean The expansive middle
The Girl and the Geek Clean The expansive middle
Girl House Clean The expansive middle
A Girl in Black Clean The elusive top
Girl in Gold Boots Clean The expansive middle
The Girl in Room 2A Clean The expansive middle
The Girl Next Door Minimal The expansive middle
The Girl on a Motorcycle Clean The expansive middle
The Girl on the Bridge Clean The expansive middle
The Girl on the Train Clean The expansive middle
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Clean The expansive middle
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Bava) Clean The expansive middle
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher) Substantial The expansive middle
The Girlfriend Experience Clean The elusive top
Girlfriends Clean The elusive top
The Girls Clean The expansive middle
Girls Against Boys Clean The expansive middle
Girls, Guns and G-Strings: The Andy Sidaris Collection Substantial The expansive middle
Giuseppina Clean The expansive middle
Glasgow 1980 Clean The expansive middle
Glass (Haanstra) Clean The elusive top
Glass Lips Minimal The expansive middle
The Gleaners & I Clean The expansive middle
The Gleaners & I: Two Years Later Clean The expansive middle
Glaze of Cathexis Clean The expansive middle
The Globalisation Tapes Clean The elusive top
Gloria! Clean The expansive middle
Glorious Clean The expansive middle
Glorious Technicolor Clean The expansive middle
Go! Go! Go! Clean The expansive middle
The Go-Between Substantial The expansive middle
God Damn Religion Clean The expansive middle
God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance Clean The expansive middle
God Told Me To Clean The expansive middle
God’s Angry Man Clean The expansive middle
Gods of the Plague Clean The expansive middle
The Godfather Substantial The elusive top
The Godfather Part II Clean The elusive top
The Godfather Part III Clean The expansive middle
God’s Country Substantial The expansive middle
Gods of Bali Clean The expansive middle
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell Minimal The expansive middle
The Gold Rush Clean The expansive middle
The Golden Coach Clean The expansive middle
The Golden Compass Clean The expansive middle
The Golden Legend Clean The expansive middle
Goldeneye Clean The expansive middle
Goldfinger Clean The expansive middle
Goldman v Silverman Clean The expansive middle
The Golf Specialist Minimal The expansive middle
Gomorrah Clean The expansive middle
Gone Girl Clean The expansive middle
Gone with the Wind Clean The expansive middle
The Good Girl Clean The expansive middle
Good Girls, Bad Girls Clean The expansive middle
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff Clean The expansive middle
The Good Night Clean The expansive middle
Good Night, and Good Luck. Clean The expansive middle
The Good Shepherd Clean The expansive middle
Good Time Clean The expansive middle
Good Times, Wonderful Times Clean The expansive middle
The Goodbye Place Clean The expansive middle
Goodbye, See You Tomorrow Clean The expansive middle
Goodfellas Clean The elusive top
The Gore Gore Girls Clean The expansive middle
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me Clean The expansive middle
The Gorilla and the Maiden CleanThe expansive middle
Goro the Assassin Clean The expansive middle
Gosford Park Minimal The expansive middle hoodlums
The Gospel According to Matthew Clean The expansive middle
Goto, Isle of Love Minimal The elusive top
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Clean The expansive middle
Le Grand Amour Clean The expansive middle
The Grand Budapest Hotel Heavy The expansive middle
The Grand Duel Substantial The expansive middle
Le Grande Illusion Clean The expansive middle
Le Grand Méliès Clean The expansive middle
La Grande Bouffe Substantial The expansive middle
Grandma's Encyclopaedia Clean The expansive middle
The Grandmother Clean The expansive middle
Grandmother’s House Clean The expansive middle
Grandpa & Marika Clean The expansive middle
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life Substantial The expansive middle chieflet
Grateful Dawg Clean The expansive middle
Grave Robbers (Galindo) Clean The smeary bottom
Grave Robbers (Weisman) Clean The smeary bottom
Gravity Clean The expansive middle
Greaser’s Palace Clean The elusive top
The Great Beauty Clean The expansive middle
The Great Dictator Clean The expansive middle
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael Clean The expansive middle
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner Clean The expansive middle
The Great Escape Clean The expansive middle Cooler
Great Expectations (Cuarón) Clean The expansive middle
The Great Flood Clean The expansive middle
The Great Performance Clean The expansive middle
The Great Steam Fair Clean The expansive middle
The Great Wall Minimal The expansive middle
The Great Yokai War Substantial The expansive middle
The Greatest Love of All Time Clean The expansive middle
Greed in the Sun Clean The expansive middle
Green for Danger Clean The expansive middle
The Green, Green Grass of Home Substantial The expansive middle
The Green Man Clean The expansive middle
Green Inferno Clean The expansive middle
Green Pink Caviar Clean The expansive middle
Green Room Minimal The expansive middle
Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts Clean The expansive middle
Greetings Clean The expansive middle
Grey Gardens (Maysles) Clean The elusive top
The Grifters Clean The expansive middle
Grizzly Man Minimal The expansive middle
Groundhog Day Clean The expansive middle
The Gruesome Twosome Clean The expansive middle
Guilty of Romance Clean The expansive middle
The Guitar Mongoloid Clean The expansive middle
Gun (Altman, et al.) Substantial The expansive middle
Guns (Sidaris) Clean The expansive middle
Gun Crazy Heavy The expansive middle
Gunpoint Heavy The expansive middle
Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors Clean The expansive middle
Guys and Dolls Clean The expansive middle
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