Does the dog die?
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Southern Comfort
Movie • 1981 • Thriller
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A 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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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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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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Is there a dead animal?
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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 someone tortured?
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Attempt to drown someone to get him to talk.
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It's hard to answer this one. One guardsman does a suicide run, possibly to distract long enough for his teammates to get away, but that may not fit the criteria. One guardsman is found hanging, but we don't know if he did it to himself.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Not onscreen, but many partially-skinned rabbits are shown onscreen and sadly, the used actual dead rabbits.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone stalked?
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All through the movie, National Guardsmen are stalked and hunted in the bayou by some locals they angered.
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One of the National Guardsmen smokes pot and there is some discussion that he sells drugs to high school kids.
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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 genital trauma/mutilation?
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In the final fight between the Guardsmen and the locals, one of the Guardsmen stabs a local between the legs.
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Is there a hanging?
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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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Are there jump scares?
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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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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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Not first.
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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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Attempted drowning and someone else gets sucked into a quagmire.
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Is there gun violence?
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A lot of it. All through the movie.
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