Does the dog die?
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Southern Comfort
Movie • 1981 • Action
ReportA squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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CarolynCares
There is a graphic scene where several dogs attack the troop of National Guardsmen, and although we see the troops trying to fight off the attacking dogs with the butts of their rifles, we (thankfully) don't hear any yelping and then the dogs, all of them, run off.
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Are animals abused?
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CarolynCares
We do not see abuse, but we see a lot of dead carcasses, and since the two pigs' REAL shooting and gutting was allowed in this movie, I have no doubt that all the dead rabbits hanging, and the dead dear were likely real as well.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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RamonaRamone
Who voted no?!? Two large pigs are shot in the head, then gutted. Unless they used extremely sophisticated animatronic pigs or pigs trained to drop when someone pretended to shoot them, then to twitch very realistically before slowing down and playing dead, which I doubt. The gutting looked very realistic and I had to cover my eyes when blood started gushing out of the first knife cuts.
It is quite possible that they were already going to be shot in the head by the locals in Louisiana in the first place, or on their way to the slaughterhouse, then gutted, and the director just asked if they could film it to be edited in later. I doubt even in 1981, that Walter Hill would just grab a couple pigs who were minding their own business simply to specifically kill them for the movie. Either way, I could have done without seeing two pigs in cages suddenly get shot in the head. It’s hard to watch.
Edited to add: yes, two real animals were killed. The pigs were going to be killed anyway, and the AHA was on the set (to make sure they didn’t suffer??). I still highly would have preferred if the footage of them being killed and cut open right after wasn’t in the movie.
It is quite possible that they were already going to be shot in the head by the locals in Louisiana in the first place, or on their way to the slaughterhouse, then gutted, and the director just asked if they could film it to be edited in later. I doubt even in 1981, that Walter Hill would just grab a couple pigs who were minding their own business simply to specifically kill them for the movie. Either way, I could have done without seeing two pigs in cages suddenly get shot in the head. It’s hard to watch.
Edited to add: yes, two real animals were killed. The pigs were going to be killed anyway, and the AHA was on the set (to make sure they didn’t suffer??). I still highly would have preferred if the footage of them being killed and cut open right after wasn’t in the movie.
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Is there a dead animal?
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GayleGordon
Lots of them. Dead gutted rabbits hanging. Dead fish, mink, a deer, and game of all kinds. There are hunters and trappers in the story, so we see the animals they killed. One scene shows a man skinning some creature, though it's hard to see what kind of animal it is. Real slaughter of two pigs and other pigs on spits.
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Is there excessive gore?
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GayleGordon
Pretty gory movie. Not the worst I've seen, but it's there.
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Is someone stalked?
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GayleGordon
All through the movie, National Guardsmen are stalked and hunted in the bayou by some locals they angered.
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Is there domestic violence?
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GayleGordon
One of the National Guardsmen smokes pot and there is some discussion that he sells drugs to high school kids.
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RamonaRamone
Two real pigs get taken to a big cookout in the back of a truck in cages. A Cajun guy comes over and shoots them both in the head. The camera does not cut away and you can see at least one of them’s legs twitching after he dropped. I highly suspect they did not use special effects or trained pigs. Afterwards they are graphically gutted (Full disclosure: I did cover my eyes for a few seconds when their guts were first cut into, when I realized those were not stunt pigs). The scene takes place in a very small Cajun town and is in the last 20 minutes. Look away when the guy parks, then walks towards their cages in the truck bed until a minute or two after the gun fires twice, if you can do without seeing two real pigs getting killed onscreen. Poor things.
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Is there a hanging?
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GayleGordon
You don't see it happen or know who did it, but his buddies find his hanging body. Could have been suicide, but it is not clear.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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GayleGordon
In the final fight between the Guardsmen and the locals, one of the Guardsmen stabs a local between the legs.
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Fear
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GayleGordon
Quite a few, like the booby trap, and the discovery of team members bodies displayed as a scare tactic.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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GayleGordon
One of the guardsmen suffers extreme anxiety, even more than the others.
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Does the black guy die first?
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RamonaRamone
Not first.
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Is there sexual content?
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GayleGordon
Not sure if it counts, but some talk of prostitutes and a few crude sex jokes.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does someone drown?
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GayleGordon
Attempted drowning and someone else gets sucked into a quagmire.
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Is there gun violence?
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GayleGordon
A lot of it. All through the movie.
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