Animal Cruelty?

[Digger Smolkin]

Call me a big wuss, but the one thing that I'm pretty squeamish about in films is cruelty to animals - simulated is bad enough, but if it's genuine, well, let's say I have difficulty watching the short Catching Trouble.

So I was a bit worried by mention of cats fighting and being relieved of eyeballs in the blurb for Maniac. I'd really like to see this Rifftrax, but can anyone advise about the level and "realisticness" of the presumably non-American Humane Association-approved action in this film?

[Piobman]

Call me a big wuss, but the one thing that I'm pretty squeamish about in films is cruelty to animals - simulated is bad enough, but if it's genuine, well, let's say I have difficulty watching the short Catching Trouble.

So I was a bit worried by mention of cats fighting and being relieved of eyeballs in the blurb for Maniac. I'd really like to see this Rifftrax, but can anyone advise about the level and "realisticness" of the presumably non-American Humane Association-approved action in this film?

From what I've read elsewhere... they used a glass eye for the cat to simulate the scene. So, although it has a real looking effect, its fake.  It has shocked some though.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Call me a big wuss, but the one thing that I'm pretty squeamish about in films is cruelty to animals - simulated is bad enough, but if it's genuine, well, let's say I have difficulty watching the short Catching Trouble.

So I was a bit worried by mention of cats fighting and being relieved of eyeballs in the blurb for Maniac. I'd really like to see this Rifftrax, but can anyone advise about the level and "realisticness" of the presumably non-American Humane Association-approved action in this film?

From what I've read elsewhere... they used a glass eye for the cat to simulate the scene. So, although it has a real looking effect, its fake.  It has shocked some though.

No pun intended...can you see it coming or does it happen out of nowhere? 

[Compound]

Call me a big wuss, but the one thing that I'm pretty squeamish about in films is cruelty to animals - simulated is bad enough, but if it's genuine, well, let's say I have difficulty watching the short Catching Trouble.

So I was a bit worried by mention of cats fighting and being relieved of eyeballs in the blurb for Maniac. I'd really like to see this Rifftrax, but can anyone advise about the level and "realisticness" of the presumably non-American Humane Association-approved action in this film?

From what I've read elsewhere... they used a glass eye for the cat to simulate the scene. So, although it has a real looking effect, its fake.  It has shocked some though.

No pun intended...can you see it coming or does it happen out of nowhere? 

He grabs the cat and... at that point you should probably turn away if you're squeamish. I didn't  and it did squick me a bit, and I have a fairly high tolerance for that stuff.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

He grabs the cat and... at that point you should probably turn away if you're squeamish. I didn't  and it did squick me a bit, and I have a fairly high tolerance for that stuff.

"He" meaning the actor pretending to be the doctor or the guy who wigs out in the clip above?

Sorry to be such a wuss....I turn away at the horse head scene in The Godfather....poor Khartoum.   

[RVR II]

He grabs the cat and...

BAD KITTY!

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

He grabs the cat and...

BAD KITTY!

[RVR II]

He grabs the cat and...

BAD KITTY!

Yeah, I know..

[Compound]

He grabs the cat and... at that point you should probably turn away if you're squeamish. I didn't  and it did squick me a bit, and I have a fairly high tolerance for that stuff.

"He" meaning the actor pretending to be the doctor or the guy who wigs out in the clip above?

Sorry to be such a wuss....I turn away at the horse head scene in The Godfather....poor Khartoum.   

The doctor. There will be a prior establishing scene with someone discussing cats before he acts.

[CJones]

Was the cat's name Satan or did I imagine that?
And yeah, that scene kinda creeped me out. And then he proceeds to seal the cat up, still alive, with the dead body. Which turns out to be his undoing (YEAH! GO CAT )

And then we have the "professional cat fur salesman". The makers of this movie had definite issues with cats.

I love cats. 

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Was the cat's name Satan or did I imagine that?
And yeah, that scene kinda creeped me out. And then he proceeds to seal the cat up, still alive, with the dead body. Which turns out to be his undoing (YEAH! GO CAT )

And then we have the "professional cat fur salesman". The makers of this movie had definite issues with cats.

I love cats. 

Ahh....so that's the connection to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat"......and Poe's character did that....only he didn't consume it.

I love cats too.   

[kiwi.mike]

Well, I just watched the DVD and, as a vegan and a cat owner (my cat actually looks a lot like the cat in the film) I was a bit worried about this myself. It was difficult to watch, obviously not much fun for the cat between fighting with the other cat and having this weird guy squeeze her head, it was pretty nasty. But then when he picked up the eyeball and it was so obviously fake that helped defuse it. So, very bizare movie, well worth a watch with the rifftrax but you might want to look away during those scenes.

[BathTub]

The film certainly isn't kind to animals, pretty sure the fights you see earlier are staged by tying the animals together. And cats are clearly being thrown around a few times.