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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  To me it's not the same thing. The cannibal films are infamous today because of the animal cruelty and general cannibalism.
Often slicing up a croc seemed shoved into these films to break up the tedium of wandering through the jungle. To not have it in is to take away much of what gave the films their 'nasty' reputation.
Horse falls should be deemed a no no in any film in the 21st century. They aren't necessary at all. |
The similarity is there inasmuch that none of the animal cruelty is necessary.
If the cannibal films were written to engage the viewer through the narrative or the interaction between the characters, so the shock value of unsimulated animal torture and/or death was not needed to hold the viewers attention, they would be superior pieces of cinema. For example,
A Man Called Horse has no animal violence but
Man from Deep River does, and it is completely superfluous to a generally interesting film.
It is different, but if the filmmakers involved in films such as
The Good, the Bad, the Weird wanted to avoid harm to horses (many of those falls lead to horses dying), they could. As you say, they are completely unnecessary.
All that said, I am sufficiently interested in
Mountain of the Cannibal God (and put off by the stomach churning animal cruelty) to buy the 'cruelty free' release.