Does the dog die?
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The Plague Dogs
Movie • 1982 • Adventure
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Simply put, if you are deeply disturbed by any depiction of animal cruelty, do not watch this movie.
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Snitter flees without telling Rowf after he accidentally triggers a shotgun in a man's face. Rowf becomes worried for Snitter's safety, howling mournfully for him and searching for him for two days. Rowf does eventually find Snitter and scolds him for leaving without telling him.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Addiction
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Dogs struggle with their environment and engage in verbal arguments with one another, but no actual dogfights like the question intended.
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Is there a dead animal?
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At the start of the movie when Harry is feeding the dogs in their pens, he finds that one of the dogs has died in its pen and removes the body. A little later on, the dog's body is put into the incinerator where Rowf and Snitter are resting. Dead sheep, chickens, ducks and frogs are seen throughout as the main trio hunt. When The Tod is killed near the end of the movie, he is partially seen dead when a soldier picks him up by the tail.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Rabbits are kept in the scientific facility. Despite their cramped conditions, they aren't actually harmed onscreen.
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a fox dies and is seen dead
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Are animals abused?
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The whole movie is about the cruelty of humans and animal testing.
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
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At some point in the movie, Snitter is trapped in a shed - a man comes along and grabs Snitter by the leg so that he can't move until Rowf bites the man's arm.
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Is someone held under water?
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No one is physically held underwater, however there is on screen showing of a dog being forced to stay in a tank of water until he dr*wns and is resuscitated.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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In an experiment, a dog is left to drown to death, before being pulled out and resuscitated, only for the process to repeat.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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The Tod startles a hunter at the top of a cliff, causing him to fall to his death.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Rowf falls unconscious at the start of the movie after being forced to swim in a water tank.
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Is there excessive gore?
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The aftermath of violence is sometimes shown; half-eaten sheep corpses are seen (eaten by the dogs) and in the uncut version of the film a dead man is later seen similarly half-eaten.
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Is someone tortured?
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Dog are experimented upon in cruel ways.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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One of the dogs went through a brain surgery and suffer seizures as a result.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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The Tod risks his life to distract the soldiers and their dogs while Rowf and Snitter escape; he is killed by the soldiers' dogs.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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The movie is set in the Lake District so there are lakes. The ocean also features near the end.
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Are there jump scares?
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At the start of the movie, Rowf's head suddenly appears above the water with a bark that might startle viewers. This happens after the camera zooms up quickly towards the top of the tank from the bottom.
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Gross
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Is someone eaten?
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The dogs eat the body of the marksman who falls to his death, although his half-eaten remains are only present in the full 103 minute version.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Not wet themselves, exactly, but there are multiple instances of dogs taking a leak, one of which results in a human female character stepping in her dog’s “puddle,” and there is one instance of a human male character taking a leak in the snow, shown from behind so you see it steaming up from the snow.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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A non-human version: the dogs are held in an animal testing facility at the start of the film, and other animals are locked up in small cages.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Snitter often suffers flashbacks to his master's death, especially when he's near a road.
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Is there misophonia?
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Near the start of the movie, Rowf becomes angry at the sound of another dog repeatedly howling.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Snitter, who could be considered to be mentally ill due to the surgeries performed on his brain, lashes out at Rowf near the beginning of the movie, though this is just to get them out of an incinerator where they are in danger.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A monkey is shown trapped in a cramped metal cylinder as part of an experiment.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Snitter is mentally unwell after having had experiments performed on his brain.
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Noxious
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The fox that travels with the dogs is killed. What ultimately happens to the two main dogs is not shown, but it is likely that they drowned.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Snitter's owner is shown to have been hit by a car in a flashback. In the movie the owner is no longer seen and it is reasonable to assume that he is dead, however the book shows that Snitter's owner survived and recovered in hospital.
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Violence
Is there gun violence?
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Yes, and it's a particularly disturbing and tragic example. The dogs find a friendly hunter who greets them. While jumping at his legs in excitement, one of the dogs accidentally pulls the trigger on the man's rifle, shooting him in the face.
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Does someone drown?
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There are several scenes of dogs drowning or almost drowning.
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