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Squirrel and Hedgehog (Korean: 다람이와 고슴도치 Taramiwa Kosŭmdoch'i) is a popular animated TV series from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with 32 episodes released between 1977 and 2012, and more episodes in the works as of 2025. Parts of Squirrel and Hedgehog were also dubbed with a greatly revised plot and released as Brave Soldier or Soldados Valientes in English and Spanish respectively. The series concerns the squirrels and hedgehogs of Flower Hill as they resolutely defend their homeland from invaders, hence the title. Tonight we'll be watching the last episodes before the 2000s/2010s "reboot".

Time breakdown:

• Reserved time: 180 minutes
• Squirrel and Hedgehog: 130 minutes
  • Each episode is ~22 minutes
• KCTV✪3SIS flourishes: 7 minutes
• Estimated door-holding: 15 minutes
• Estimated slack: 28 minutes
  • If we have at least 10 minutes left at the end we'll watch Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors episode 9.

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Captions: English hardsubs, dialog only.

Language of audio: Korean.

Content warnings:

• FLASHING LIGHTS
• ALCOHOL USE
• NEEDLES/SYRINGES
• SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL IDEATION
• Furries die and experience torture, incl. through burning alive, falling to their deaths, getting run over, car crashes, plane crashes, drowning, and more
• Shaving/cutting hair
• Hospital scenes
• Mild blood (no gore)

♫ Uniiiiting the wooooorld under Juche's liiiiight ♫
♫ Spend Juche 115 with KCTV✪3SIS! ♫

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The visual cuisine for tonight is Magic Knight Rayearth, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated.

6 pm est

Magic Knight Rayearth follows Fuu, Umi, and Hikaru as they are transported to the world of Zephyr and given the mission to rescue the captured Princess Esmeralda. We will start season 2 today.

8 pm est

Due to popular demand we will be starting God Nights: Courage the Cowardly Dog follows a cowardly dog named Courage defending his family from many bizarre dangers.

Scooby Doo MI revisits the early days of the gang and sees them in Crystal Cove, a small town full of paranormal sightings and other mysteries. It references previous iterations of Scooby Doo and has an overarching story arc.

content warnings:

Magic Knight Rayearth:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112057/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16420?index1=-1&index2=-1

• An animal that looks like a cat dies
• Animals/beasts/monsters are faught and sometimes killed
• Mild sexual content
• Sexualization of female characters
• Light blood
• Cartoon violence
• Alcohol is referenced
• Tension

Courage:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17834?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Cartoon violence
• Cartoon animal abuse: Eustace constantly abuses Courage in cartoonish ways
• Animal abuse
• Animals die
• References to pedophilia/child molestation however the character does not directly engage in that behavior
• An animal is abandoned
• Child abandoned by parent
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents
• Spiders & bugs
• Alligators/crocodiles
• Characters are restrained
• Eye mutilation
• Body horror
• Teeth are damaged
• Shaving/cutting
• A character frequently strangles another
• Unconsciousness
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Ghosts
• Vomit & spit
• Anxiety attacks
• Fourth wall breaking
• Sad endings
• Car crashes
• A character is hit by a car
• Blood/gore: sometimes Courage screams and his internal organs come out in a cartoonish manner

Scooby Doo

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/612315?index1=-1&index2=-1

• A dog dies
• Death
• Animals die
• An animal is abandoned
• Stalking
• Animal abuse
• Death of a pet
• Spiders, bugs & snakes
• Sad animals
• Alligators/crocodiles
• Sharks
• Characters are drugged
• Characters are restrained
• Eye mutilation
• Torture
• Teeth are damaged
• Characters are burned alive
• Characters are crushed to death
• Bone-breaking
• Death of a major character
• Characters sacrifice themselves
• Death of a parent
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Possession
• Clowns
• Ghosts
• Natural bodies of water
• Spitting
• Incarceration
• Hospital & mental institution scenes
• Misgendering: Velma is mistaken for a boy on a few occasions
• Death of a LGBT character
• A black character dies first: One of the few deaths in the series is a black character
• Car crash
• Drowning
• Guns & gun violence

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Embrace of the Serpent (2015), a Colombian drama set in the Amazon, and following an indigenous shaman’s meetings with two explorers, one in 1909, and another in 1940. Both seek his aid in finding a rare plant, and they set down the river so he can show them the way, encountering the destructive effects of colonialism along the way. Reviews generally compare this one to Werner Herzog’s similarly-themed films Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982). This is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Ciro Guerra; it is currently ranked #268 on the Letterboxd Top 500.

BONUS: Between the features, we will watch Buster Keaton 19-minute comic short The High Sign (1921), in which he gets a job at a carnival run by mobsters, who order him to kill a businessman. He turns the tables on the crooks by instead protecting the man using various traps he sets inside his house. Pretty much a 1920s version of Home Alone (1990). This is considered one of Keaton’s better shorts.

After that is Design for Living (1933), a screwball romantic comedy about a successful female artist (Miriam Hopkins) must decide between two suitors who compete for her affections, one a painter, and one a playwright. Wait, they ask, why don’t all three of them just live together? A 1930s polycule ensues, pushing the boundaries of acceptability at the time. Will they return to monogamy in the end? I guess we’ll find out. Director is Ernst Lubitsch, the guy behind many classic Hollywood comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise (1932) and The Shop Around the Corner (1940), both of which we previously watched. This is considered one of the best comedies of the 1930s, so we’ll give it a shot. We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Embrace of the Serpent: https://letterboxd.com/film/embrace-of-the-serpent/
• The High Sign: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-high-sign/
• Design for Living: https://letterboxd.com/film/design-for-living/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Embrace of the Serpent: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/65116
• Design for Living: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023940/parentalguide/

CWs for Embrace of the Serpent:

• Animal corpses.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Child abuse.
• Whipping.
• Drug use.
• Carnism.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Death of parent.
• Vomit.
• Spitting.
• Eye mutilation.
• Hate speech.
• Racism toward indigenous people.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Colonialism.
• Torture.
• Seizure.

CWs for Design for Living:

• Implied sex.
• Alcohol.
• Drunkenness.
• Misogyny.
• Cheating.

Links to movies:

• Embrace of the Serpent: https://tankie.tube/w/e111FLvVPK8PPfnasUMhho
• The High Sign: https://tankie.tube/w/hxjgEXyg8rjxHeJUvHfrhH
• Design for Living: https://tankie.tube/w/pu7GDsFxL3DqF1wjqgAv8v

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Empress Chung (Korean: 왕후심청; RR: Wanghu simcheong) is a 2005 animated epic fantasy film, produced in North and South Korea and directed by Nelson Shin, on whose story the screenplay is also based. Empress Chung was the first film to release simultaneously in both North and South Korea.

Based on a Korean folk tale, the film follows a girl that sacrifices her life to a sea dragon in order to restore her blind father's eyesight. She is rewarded for her filial piety by being made an empress. During a night, three blacked cloaked men had burnt down the village. During the burning, a dog had recused had Chung from a river.

We'll be checking the Korean Original with English Subs (Special Thanks to Garg for the subtitles and movie)

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 American animated space opera film directed and produced by Steven Hahn, and written by Jeffrey Scott. Starchaser: The Legend of Orin was one of the first animated movies to mix traditional and computer animation, as well as one of the first to be released in 3D. Steven Hahn, a veteran animator in TV animation, decided during the off-season to produce a feature film in order to give his South Korean animation studio something to work on.

On the planet Trinia, humans have been enslaved for over a thousand years in the "Mine-World," deep underground. They mine red crystals for Zygon, a despotic cyborg they worship as a god. A young miner named Orin discovers a jeweled sword hilt. Orin and his girlfriend Elan attempt to reach the surface. On the surface, Orin is nearly harvested for parts by swamp-dwelling "Man-Droids" before being rescued by Dagg Dibrimi, a cynical, cigar-chomping smuggler. They are joined by Princess Aviana, the ship's neurotic AI, and Silica, a "fembot".

We'll be checking the English Dub.

Black Magic M-66 (ブラックマジック M–66, Burakku Majikku Mario Shikkusuti Shikkusu), is a 1987 OVA, which was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. AIC and Animate provided the animation/production while Bandai Visual was chosen as the distributor. The OVA is loosely based on the Booby Trap chapters of the manga and centers around the efforts of a female journalist named Sybel, trying to save a young girl from an out-of-control military android created by the girl's grandfather.

Two top-secret, highly advanced military combat androids, the M-66 units, are being transported when the military aircraft carrying them crashes in a forest. Due to a programming glitch triggered by the crash, the androids activate their "test" mission: to find and assassinate Ferris, the granddaughter of their creator, Professor Matthew. ybel, a persistent freelance photojournalist, intercepts military radio chatter and rushes to the crash site hoping for a big scoop. She witnesses the military’s failed attempt to contain the droids and realizes that a young girl's life is in immediate danger.

We'll be checking the English Dub.

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The Owl House returns on May 23. Next Saturday, we'll be watching more Star vs. the Forces of Evil and Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

PONIES: The Anthology is a popular series of (usually feature-length) compilations of short My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic joke videos by various creators. Especially in the earlier installments, these short videos are often made by just overlaying audio from other media over footage from MLP:FiM. However, as the series progresses, more and more effort is put in, so more of the shorts are things like original animations and YTPs/YTPMVs. Ponies: The Anthology is in any case an interesting time capsule of online and brony culture in that given year. Anthology 1 came out in 2011 and Anthology 2 came out in 2012, around the recognized peak of the brony fandom. Ponies: The Anthology has been called the brony equivalent to AMV Hell.

Looking over summaries of the shorts in these first two anthologies, I cannot identify anything particularly worthy of a warning. These films have vulgar language but that's about it, and I can't remember anything bad from when I watched them myself as a kid.

Time breakdown:

• Reserved time: 180 minutes
• Ponies: The Anthology 1: 24 minutes
• Minimum intermission: 16 minutes
  • I.e. the pee break song + a few other videos I want to show you all
• Ponies: The Anthology 2: 82 minutes
• Other TV☆3SIS flourishes: 2 minutes
• Estimated door-holding: 15 minutes
• Estimated slack: 41 minutes
  • If we have 10 minutes to spare at the end, we'll watch Joshua Jones episode 2.

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Berserk (2016), the third animated adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s 1989 manga of the same name. Good news; this one adapts the arc following the Golden Age saga, finally resolving the mother-of-all-cliffhangers from the 1997 series and the only-slightly-less-hanging ending of the 2012 series. A muscle-bound, sword-wielding he-man named Guts accrues a rag-tag band of companions and roams a lawless fantasy land filled with bad guys and monsters, stabbing things and lobbing off heads every step of the way. It is pretty much Conan the Barbarian meets Fist of the North Star. This is not as highly-regarded as the 1997 series, but it continues the story, which is good enough for me. Episodes 19 through 24 tonight, wrapping up the series.

After that is American Pop (1981), an animated musical from renowned adult-animation auteur Ralph Bakshi, whose films Fritz the Cat (1972), Wizards (1977), Lord of the Rings (1978), Rock and Rule (1983), and Cool World (1992) we previously watched. It follows four generations of a family descended from a Russian-Jewish immigrant to New York in the early 20th century, leading up to the then-present of the 1980s amidst a backdrop of the musical revolutions that took place over eighty years. As usual for Bakshi, the film makes extensive use of rotoscoping, but it looks less slapdash than usual here. The soundtrack features tunes from The Doors, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed, and Jimi Hendrix, among others. This is often considered his best film, so let’s check it out.

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Berserk: https://myanimelist.net/anime/32379/Berserk
• American Pop: https://letterboxd.com/film/american-pop/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Berserk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9832
• American Pop: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10139

CWs for Berserk:

• Death of dog.
• Animal abandonment.
• Smoke.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abuse.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Stalking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of horse.
• Sad animal.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Sexual assault.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Finger mutilation.
• Squashed head.
• Tooth damage.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Decapitation.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Amputation.
• Asphyxiation.
• Achilles tendon injury.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Choking.
• Dislocations.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Death by falling.
• Genital trauma.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Unconsciousness.
• Stabbing.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Trypophobia.
• Possession.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Prison scene.
• Menstruation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Dissociation.
• Body dysphoria.
• Meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Flashing lights.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Jump scares.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Miscarriage.
• Death of pregnant person.
• Childbirth.
• Abortions.
• Babies.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Hate speech.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Hell.
• Bestiality.
• Incest.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• BDSM.
• Loss of virginity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Gun violence.
• Drowning.
• Carnism.
• Sad ending.

CWs for American Pop:

• Child abuse.
• Sex.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Abusive parents.
• Flashing lights.
• Throat mutilation.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Needles.
• Child abandonment.
• Gun violence.
• Broken bones.
• Someone is drugged.
• Death of parent.
• Unstable reality.
• Drug addiction.
• Cheating.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Razors.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Drug overdose.
• Hospital scene.
• Screaming.
• Clowns.
• Drug use.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Homelessness.

Links to movies:

• Berserk (2016) ep. 19: https://tankie.tube/w/cKie9xnzDnCWcEGkhaBThD
• Berserk (2016) ep. 20: https://tankie.tube/w/ac8e4RwKyBLXfbA4E3SE8D
• Berserk (2016) ep. 21: https://tankie.tube/w/rXqc4PzCExYN4gd4v8uuhM
• Berserk (2016) ep. 22: https://tankie.tube/w/rneFrTdnUacoT19LyLGfTx
• Berserk (2016) ep. 23: https://tankie.tube/w/oVoi4PxHkMUrFDTf2GJBYD
• Berserk (2016) ep. 24: https://tankie.tube/w/eYNpCJ3C3Rst36EJEzobhV
• American Pop: https://tankie.tube/w/cEATrRGTNf5mN6MXhbzkJh

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Man Who Laughs (1928), another entry in the Silent Jokerification Horror Cinematic Universe, following He Who Gets Slapped (1924), which we watched on Sunday. This one holds extra cred for literally inspiring the Joker. A child heir to a nobleman refuses to kiss the hand of tyrannical English king James II; as punishment his face is disfigured until it carries a permanent grin. Exiled from his home, he joins the circus and is raised there by a twisted showman, falling in love with a blind woman performer. Eventually, fate grants him an opportunity to ingratiate himself into the royal court again, and he plots his revenge. This is the best-known and best-regarded film of director Paul Leni, and considered a highlight of silent film in general. Oh, and did I mention it inspired the Joker?

BONUS: Between the features, we will watch Buster Keaton’s 23-minute short Cops (1922), which features Buster drawing the aggro of every cop in the city after accidentally interrupting a police parade with his horse-drawn wagon. Silliness ensues. Considered one of his better works.

After that is The Return (2003), a Russian coming-of-age mystery about a pair of brothers due to reunite with their father, whom they have never met. He immediately takes them on a trip to a remote island in the wilderness, and starts testing their masculinity, seemingly to affirm his own. Is he actually who he says he is? The sons begin to doubt. I guess we’ll find out. Director is Andrey Zyvagintsev, who is otherwise best-known for Leviathan (2014), which we previously watched. Currently ranked #355 on the Letterboxd Top 500.

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Man Who Laughs: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-man-who-laughs/
• Cops: https://letterboxd.com/film/cops/
• The Return: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-return/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Man Who Laughs: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12000
• The Return: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/parentalguide/

CWs for The Man Who Laughs:

• Child abandonment.
• Child abuse.
• Gaslighting.
• Stalking.
• Amputation.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Kidnapping.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Clowns.
• Shower scene.
• Hanging.
• Babies.
• Ableism.
• Racism against Roma.
• Racial slurs.
• Misrepresentation of Roma.
• Implied sex.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Sexual assault: a woman forcibly kisses a man.
• Homelessness.
• Drowning.
• Torture.
• Unconsciousness.

CWs for The Return:

• Objectification of female characters.
• Implied sex.
• Bullying.
• Beatings.
• Blood.
• Child endangerment.
• Profanity.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• Child abuse.
• Death by falling.
• Corpses.
• Natural bodies of water.

Links to movies:

• The Man Who Laughs: https://tankie.tube/w/eqrwr3WZkkTNY2Y5WwdbyW
• Cops: https://tankie.tube/w/rmmGHU5CuAK1kkRTbAszqj
• The Return: https://tankie.tube/w/1hdnYDEB1BdJWNMzY5Zhxw

I'll add stuff later. I'm just too exhuasted and wanted to get the post up.

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, first up is Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924), the first installment of a two-part mythological fantasy epic from renowned German auteur Fritz Lang, who work has appeared numerous times on the ‘tube, namely The Big Heat (1953), The Woman in the Window (1944), Fury (1936), and Scarlet Street (1945). This is part of his earlie German Expressionist period, along with Metropolis (1927) and M (1931), following the ordeals of superpowered he-ma Siegfried, who sets out to woo the Princess Kriemhild. Along the way, he battles a dragon, becomes invincible after bathing in its blood, battles a dwarven king, obtains a treasure hoard, and becomes caught up in a web of political intrigue. Much stabbing ensues. This is considered one of the best silent films, so let’s check it out.

After that is Hard Truths (2024), a British dramedy from Mike Leigh, whose films Life Is Sweet (1990), Vera Drake (2004), Naked (1993), and Another Year (2010) we have previously watched. It follows an extremely angry black British woman who lashes out constantly at her husband, son, and more-successful extended family, apparently suffering from some sort of undiagnosed mental illness. In Leigh’s typical fashion, her problems lead her into one painfully awkward social encounter after another, with much humor deriving from secondhand embarrassment. Excellent reviews for this one. We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried: https://letterboxd.com/film/die-nibelungen-siegfried/
• Hard Truths: https://letterboxd.com/film/hard-truths-2024/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/179817
• Hard Truths: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1372007

CWs for Die Nibelungen: Siegfried:

• Death of dragon.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Stabbing.
• Animal corpses.
• Nudity.
• Alcohol.

CWs for Hard Truths:

• Abusive parents.
• Profanity.
• Death of family member.
• Meltdown.
• Screaming.
• Alcohol.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried: https://tankie.tube/w/9pdseMjKAFCihfxVVXPKo9
• Hard Truths: https://tankie.tube/w/srANvYUfPWwB7cMtoQyhUn

Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movies night, Anime Edition: Vampire Hunter D (1985) (1h20m) and its sequel, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (2000) (1h43m) at 4:30 PM US EDT

Ending a bit early as I have to leave for something

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These books caught my attention and I’m curious about reading them, but they are also dauntingly long, so I’m looking to watch the movies and see if I like them enough to put the time investment into the books. To me, they looked like a very weird and creative twist on vampire stories so I have high hopes.

Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Vampire Hunter D (Japanese: 吸血鬼ハンターD, Hepburn: Banpaia Hantā Dī) is a 1985 Japanese original video animation directed by Toyoo Ashida from a screenplay by Yasushi Hirano. It is based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

The film is set in the year 12,090 AD, in a post-nuclear holocaust world where a young woman hires a mysterious half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter to protect her from a powerful vampire lord whom she is being forced to marry.

Content Warnings for Vampire Hunter D (1985) (1h20m)

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/23166

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/9205

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090248/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/vwt3k2oSFHrJDo87kpr5VM

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (2000) (1h43m)

From Wikipedia:

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, simply known in Japan as Vampire Hunter D (バンパイアハンターD, Banpaia Hantā Dī), is a 2000 dark fantasy[4] vampire adventure[5] anime film written for the screen and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It is based on the 1985 novel Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

The film began production in 1997 and was completed with the intention of being shown in American theaters. It was shown in twelve theaters across the United States and received generally positive reception from American critics.

It sounds similar to the first one but is supposed to be better. We’ll find out!

Content Warnings for Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (2000) (1h43m)

While there are entries in the usual places, they are pretty sparse on details so this list may be incomplete.

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/20305

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/9213

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216651/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/pK4vUG6jmoLQaCmLeXdsNo

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is It (1990), the first film adaptation (albeit made for TV) of Stephen King’s famed 1987 horror novel, following a demon who haunts a group of small-town children in 1960 in the guise of an evil, murderous clown. Fast-forward 30 years, and the demon returns again, only this time, the kids are grown up and ready to fight back. Something something face your demons, but literally. Director Tommy Lee Wallace is otherwise best-known for Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), which we previously watched. This was a big ratings hit when first aired on ABC in 1990, so let’s check it out.

After that is A Page of Madness (1926), a surrealist Japanese silent film about a man who works as an orderly at a mental hospital, hoping to free his wife, who is a patient after having attempted to drown their baby daughter; The daughter grows up, and the man tries to hide her mother from her, while his mental state deteriorates himself. That synopsis is probably about as much as you’ll understand from this, because it is famously more of a mood piece that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, relying on weird visuals and disorienting editing to unsettle the viewer. It is the most famous Japanese film of the 1920s, largely because it is one of the few that survives. This is the best-known film of director Teinosuke Kinugasa, who also made the Oscar-winning Gate of Hell (1953), which we have not yet watched.

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Letterboxd:

• It: https://letterboxd.com/film/it-1990/
• A Page of Madness: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-page-of-madness/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• It: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/26102?index1=-1&index2=-1
• A Page of Madness: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/parentalguide/

CWs for It:

• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Child abuse.
• Gaslighting.
• Belting of child.
• Stalking.
• Drug use.
• Animal corpses.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Death of child.
• Deaths of animals.
• Demons.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Claustrophobia.
• Possession.
• Clowns.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies oof water.
• Vomiting.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Decapitation.
• Prison scene.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Cancer.
• Hospital scene.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Dissociation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Mental illness.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Choking.
• Flashing lights.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Underwater scenes.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• N-word.
• Antisemitism.
• Age-gap romance.
• Incest.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Implied sexual assault. Not depicted.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Chronic illness.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Stabbing.
• Unconsciosness.

CWs for A Page of Madness:

• Drowning of baby.
• Unstable reality.
• Mental hospital scenes.
• Mental illness.
• Fistfighting.

Links to movies:

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What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Squirrel and Hedgehog (Korean: 다람이와 고슴도치 Taramiwa Kosŭmdoch'i) is a popular animated TV series from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with 32 episodes released between 1977 and 2012, and more episodes in the works as of 2025. Parts of Squirrel and Hedgehog were also dubbed with a greatly revised plot and released as Brave Soldier or Soldados Valientes in English and Spanish respectively.

Squirrel and Hedgehog concerns the squirrels and hedgehogs of Flower Hill as they resolutely defend their homeland from invaders. Hence the title.

Time breakdown:

• Reserved time: 180 minutes
• Squirrel and Hedgehog: 127 minutes
  • Each episode is ~21 minutes
• KCTV✪3SIS flourishes: 7 minutes
• Estimated door-holding: 15 minutes
• Estimated slack: 31 minutes

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Captions: English hardsubs, dialog only.

Language of audio: Korean.

Content warnings:

• FLASHING LIGHTS
• ALCOHOL USE
• NEEDLES/SYRINGES
• SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL IDEATION
• Furries die and experience torture, incl. through burning alive, falling to their deaths, getting run over, car crashes, plane crashes, drowning, and more
• Shaving/cutting hair
• Hospital scenes
• Mild blood (no gore)

♫ Uniiiiting the wooooorld under Juche's liiiiight ♫
♫ Spend Juche 115 with KCTV✪3SIS! ♫

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This week Hairy Harmonies looks at Studio censorship. We all know The Hays Code set restrictions on Hollywood and the rest of the big film players. Yet the studios often self-censored before the code in order to get films played in conservative communities. They already limited the roles of minorities to avoid, say, interracial romances that would offend a wide swath of the South, they always limited nudity (we're talking mass-market films for big theaters, not the little naughty reels played in back rooms), and extreme gross-out comedy and horror were both publicly questionable as well as technically unimaginable. So here's a look at a pre-code delight, Gold Diggers of 1933, that has little to which one might object and a post-code fluff comedy, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, that becomes a bit twisted when you read between the lines. Side note: these films pass the Bechdel Test: a) two named female characters b) talk to each other c) about something other than 'the guy'.

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

1h 37min 35sec, English with optional English subtitles
Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Al Dubin

Busby Berkeley choreography is center stage as a trio of desperate showgirls try to keep a new show afloat after so many have closed due to the hard times of The Depression. To the money men, the girls are seen as scheming to bilk a high society man of his money, but we all know what money men are like – and so do the girls. Shout-out to the pig-latin rendition of "We're in the Money" at the very start by none other than Ginger Rogers.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)

1h 38min 33sec, English with hard coded English subtitles Director: Preston Sturges

A small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend does NOT go to a wild send-off party for the troops, get drunk, and have relations with at least one of them. No. That would violate the Hays code! Instead, she finds that she's bumped her head at the social event, which has lead to a foggy memory of who she's married. This is a frivolous film, but its tricks to be more than allowed is worth noting.

Content Warnings:

Gold Diggers of 1933 U.S. rated TV-G
Sex & Nudity: Mild
Violence & Gore: None
Profanity: None
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes: None
hidden spoilers from https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/91395

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek UK rated: A
Sex & Nudity: Mild
Violence & Gore: None
Profanity: None
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes: Mild
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Pre-show: Hollywood: No Sex Please! (2018)
55min 30sec, English with hard coded English subtitles
(U.S. 18+ Amazon Prime Video Rating - no ratings for content warnings from imdb nor https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/672946)

letterboxd

https://letterboxd.com/film/hollywood-no-sex-please/
https://letterboxd.com/film/gold-diggers-of-1933/
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-miracle-of-morgans-creek/

movie links:

• 3pm EDT / 21:00 UTC - Pre-show: https://tankie.tube/w/oTEGMainieGgRsv8CLkgDs
  -- 1933 intro: https://tankie.tube/w/agWwfa2LEvUw6WGtk9BZCa
• 4pm EDT / 22:00 UTC - Gold Diggers of 1933: https://tankie.tube/w/i5cWr7C3dJ6Dss9KUrAozG
  -- 1933 outro: https://tankie.tube/w/2GkSVgr4d9bbQehKCtkwqH
  -- Musicals appreciation short: https://tankie.tube/w/rCm1zvrBMBjgmhAzcyiERD
  -- short on Censorship vs. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (7min): https://tankie.tube/w/mSzTNn1XbxLLJawq8bRAgj
• 6pm EDT / 22:00 UTC - The Miracle of Morgan's Creek: https://tankie.tube/w/6stMvTEDkc76TvPpQJHoLd

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Due to popular demand, the visual cuisine for tonight are some episodes from Superman & Batman the animated series, four episodes of Sealab 2021, and Archer episodes.

Superbat is a combination of Superman tas and Batman tas, we will try watching them at the same time in the correct order.

Sealab 2021 follows an aquatic colony and its people who hate each other. Due to popular demand we will watch multiple Sealab 2021 episodes since it is referenced heavily in Archer. The episodes are shorter so we will attempt watching four.

Archer follows secret agent Archer Sterling and his dysfunctional coworkers who work at a fictional american intelligence agency.

8 pm est

content warnings

Batman Tas

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103359/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/600464?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Batman is a billionaire who dons a suit and beats people up at night
• Mild nudity
• Kissing
• A character is kissed without their consent
• Sexual innuendos
• Cartoon violence
• Guns & gun violence
• Light blood
• "Non-lethal" violence that in reality would be lethal
• Drugs & alcohol
• Harley is in an abusive relationship with Joker
• Death
• Characters in distress
• Some episodes are sad
• Gaslighting
• A mentally ill person is violent
• Mental institution scenes
• Characters are drugged
• Characters suffer from PTSD
• Characters are restrained
• Death of a parent
• Stalking
• Clowns
• Kidnapping
• Mental illness
• Unconsciousness
• Natural bodies of water
• Alligators and crocodiles
• Abusive parents
• Characters are arrested and sent to prison

Sealab 2021

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/599245?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Bestiality
• A character is crushed to death
• A character drowns
• A character threatens suicide
• Antisemistism
• Fourth wall is broken

Archer

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14406?index1=-1&index2=-1

• A dog does die
• Violence
• Guns & gun violence
• Profanity & slurs
• Sexual content
• A disabled character is played by an able-bodied perosn
• Pedophilia
• A minor is sexualized
• Transphobic slurs
• Homophobia & "man in a dress" jokes
• A character is misgendered
• Abortion
• Ableism & ableist slurs
• Death of an LGBT character
• Hate speech
• Misrepresentation of a minority
• A character is terminally ill
• Razors, cutting, stabbing, & shaving
• An animal is abandoned
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents, child abuse, and child abandonment
• Abused forgives their abuser
• Gaslighting
• Stalking
• Drugs, alcohol, & overdose
• Addiction
• Animal abuse and neglect; death of a pet
• Snakes & spiders
• Frequent mentions and jokes about sexual assault/harassment; jokes about sexual assault on men
• Characters are drugged & restrained
• A woman gets slapped
• Eye mutilation
• Excessive gore
• Mentions of genital trauma/mutilation in one episode
• Head gets squashed
• Teeth are damaged
• A character is burned alive
• Cannibalism
• Amputation
• Asphyxiation & drowning
• Hanging
• Bone breaking
• Torture
• Kidnapping
• Death of a major character
• Cheating
• Vomit, spitting, & farting
• A character wet/soils themselves
• Incarceration
• Needles & syringes
• Hospital scenes
• A character attempts suicide
• A character that may be autistic is abused
• A character has an eating disorder and is the butt of fat jokes
• A mentally ill person is violent
• PTSD
• Body dysmorphia
• Anxiety attacks
• Suicide and jokes about suicide
• Flashing lights & images
• Loud noises
• Antisemitism
• Large age gap in a relationship
• Religion is mentioned
• bestiality
• Incest
• Characters are sexually objectified
• Men are ridiculed for crying

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The visual cuisine for tonight is Magic Knight Rayearth, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated.

6 pm est

Magic Knight Rayearth follows Lucy, Anias, and Marina as they are transported to the world of Zephyr and given the mission to rescue the captured Princess Esmeralda. We will start season 2 today.

8 pm est

Due to popular demand we will be starting God Nights: Courage the Cowardly Dog follows a cowardly dog named Courage defending his family from many bizarre dangers.

Scooby Doo MI revisits the early days of the gang and sees them in Crystal Cove, a small town full of paranormal sightings and other mysteries. It references previous iterations of Scooby Doo and has an overarching story arc. We will start season 2 tonight.

content warnings:

Magic Knight Rayearth:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112057/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16420?index1=-1&index2=-1

• An animal that looks like a cat dies
• Animals/beasts/monsters are faught and sometimes killed
• Mild sexual content
• Sexualization of female characters
• Light blood
• Cartoon violence
• Alcohol is referenced
• Tension

Courage:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17834?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Cartoon violence
• Cartoon animal abuse: Eustace constantly abuses Courage in cartoonish ways
• Animal abuse
• Animals die
• References to pedophilia/child molestation however the character does not directly engage in that behavior
• An animal is abandoned
• Child abandoned by parent
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents
• Spiders & bugs
• Alligators/crocodiles
• Characters are restrained
• Eye mutilation
• Body horror
• Teeth are damaged
• Shaving/cutting
• A character frequently strangles another
• Unconsciousness
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Ghosts
• Vomit & spit
• Anxiety attacks
• Fourth wall breaking
• Sad endings
• Car crashes
• A character is hit by a car
• Blood/gore: sometimes Courage screams and his internal organs come out in a cartoonish manner

Scooby Doo

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/612315?index1=-1&index2=-1

• A dog dies
• Death
• Animals die
• An animal is abandoned
• Stalking
• Animal abuse
• Death of a pet
• Spiders, bugs & snakes
• Sad animals
• Alligators/crocodiles
• Sharks
• Characters are drugged
• Characters are restrained
• Eye mutilation
• Torture
• Teeth are damaged
• Characters are burned alive
• Characters are crushed to death
• Bone-breaking
• Death of a major character
• Characters sacrifice themselves
• Death of a parent
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Possession
• Clowns
• Ghosts
• Natural bodies of water
• Spitting
• Incarceration
• Hospital & mental institution scenes
• Misgendering: Velma is mistaken for a boy on a few occasions
• Death of a LGBT character
• A black character dies first: One of the few deaths in the series is a black character
• Car crash
• Drowning
• Guns & gun violence

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is He Who Gets Slapped (1924). After losing his career and wife to an evil baron, a scientist (Lon Chaney) is forced to join a circus as a clown, where his only role is to be slapped repeatedly. He falls in love with a showgirl in the troupe, but uh-oh, she’s about to married off to, of all people, the baron. Aaahhhhh! Jokerification ensues. Many reviews compare this to Joker (2019) and The King of Comedy (1982) is depicting a comedian who snaps. Director Victor Sjostrom also helmed The Phantom Carriage (1921), which we previously watched. This is considered one of the best silent films, so let’s give it a whirl.

BONUS: Between the features, we will watch Buster Keaton 23-minute comic short The Goat (1921), in which he is mistaken for a criminal and imprisoned. A whole bunch of slapstick antics befalls the incompetent police as he endeavors to get out of this sticky situation. ACAB.

After that is Seven Beauties (1975), an Italian black comedy set during WW2, following a thief and all-around scoundrel who mooches off his seven sisters. After being arrested for murder, he finds himself in an army penal battalion, where he is, in turn, captured by the Germans and thrown into a concentration camp. He decides his best chance for survival is to seduce the female camp commandant. Darkly-comic antics ensue from there. Director-writer Lina Wertmuller also did the Mussolini assassination-plot thriller Love and Anarchy (1973); as with that film, this one is often interpreted as a feminist commentary on toxic masculinity.

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Letterboxd:

• He Who Gets Slapped: https://letterboxd.com/film/he-who-gets-slapped/
• The Goat: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-goat/
• Seven Beauties: https://letterboxd.com/film/seven-beauties/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• He Who Gets Slapped: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• Seven Beauties: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/894393

CWs for He Who Gets Slapped:

• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• Depression.
• Nervous breakdown.
• Mental illness.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Slapstick violence.
• Unstable reality.
• Hallucinations.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Seven Beauties:

• Sexual assault: an inmate in a mental hospital is implied to have r*ped another inmate.
• Torture.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Prostitution.
• Misogyny.
• Domestic violence.
• Blood and gore.
• Sex.
• Hanging.
• Nudity.
• Pooping.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Misophonia.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Gaslighting.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Hate speech.
• Gun violence.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• PTSD.
• Slapping of woman.
• Electrotherapy.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Antisemitism.
• Choking.
• Bullying.
• Hospital scene.
• Plane crash.
• Screaming.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Spitting.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Profanity.
• Shower scene.
• Unconsciousness.
• Incarceration.
• Homelessness.
• Natural bodies of water.

Links to movies:

• He Who Gets Slapped: https://tankie.tube/w/soFxyvY5SmaWxSNea2R7ZC
• The Goat: https://tankie.tube/w/qZGJNfZoDPJzBU7ob6p6SN
• Seven Beauties: https://tankie.tube/w/tQYchVch9Kjk69fRZezBWs

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11500254

God, couldn't they have used a better poster cover for One Day One Night (2022) that doesn't spoil it a bit. So I used the Joseon Films logo in its stead

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The Wicker Man

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in the Hebrides Island, in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

Directed by Robin Hardy, his first directorial debut, we are also introduced to actor Edward Woodward, known for many roles in media, including appearing in Hot Fuzz (2007), and actor Christopher Lee, famous as Saruman of Lord of the Rings fame, and other roles.

One Day, One Night

In the 1950s a female war veteran and army nurse, Ra Myong Ju, uncovers the plot of the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factionalists, in the midst of their base of conspiracy. The film is based on a real story that happened to the real life late Ra Myong Hui in the 1950s, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. May she rest well.

First DPRK horror, they say

Directed by Pak Kyong Jin with April 25 studio, which also seems to be his first directorial debut, he has also made a sequel, Day and Night of Confrontation (2025), which I am yet to have good English subtitles to, but that doesn’t really interest me. Also notable is that Ra’s actor, Kim Ryu Kyong, appeared in one particularly viral music video.

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Be there, comrade, or shall I say, dongmu (friend) or dongji (elder comrade)!

That’s how DPRK addresses people, right?

Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wicker-man/

https://letterboxd.com/film/one-day-and-one-night/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

The Wicker Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12301

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/

https://www.imdb.com/

The Wicker Man

Sex Et Nudity: Moderate

The Landlord's Daughter, sung by many of the islanders in the Green Man inn, is a bawdy song highly suggestive of Willow's sexual proclivity. Willow appears to accept this as a compliment and dances in a suggestive way with Oak.

A young man is "presented" to a woman in a window who is referred to as Aphrodite. Later in the scene they are heard having sex - no nudity is shown.

Several partially clad and naked couples are seen apparently copulating outside at night.

A naked woman with breasts in clear view is seen sat crying against a gravestone.

Director's Cut only: The song Gently Johnny describes a sexual encounter.

Pregnant women in partially see-through slips are seen picking blossom from trees.

Apparently naked young women (wearing body stockings so nothing seen) are seen dancing and jumping through a fire. Lord Summerisle refers to them as children.

Willow is seen singing and dancing naked. Her breasts are shown in medium closeup and there are full length views of her back (for which a body-double was used).

A woman is discovered naked in the bath. She exposes her breasts to Sergeant Howie.

Several island women play sexually suggestive games with the Hobbyhorse and Punch during the procession.

---

Thankfully, no sexual assault, nor the r-word known as forced unconsenting sex

That being, being held in captivity is non-consensual.

Violence Et Gore: Moderate

Sergeant Howie punches an islander in the face.

Schoolgirls tie a live beetle to a bit of string on a rusty nail, the goal being to see how long it will keep trying to free itself before it rips its own leg off. Sergeant Howie finds this incredibly cruel.

---

Profanity: Mild

A few uses of the word bloody, one use of the word god and jesus christ.

---

Substance Abuse: Mild

Many of the islanders are seen drinking, smoking and cavorting in the Green Man inn.

Sergeant Howie drinks a pint of beer with his meal.

The gravedigger smokes a pipe.

Islanders are shown drinking and cavorting on the morning of May Day.

Sergeant Howie asks for a glass of whisky, which he downs in one

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Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

A severed hand is briefly shown on a candlestick, each finger lit separately as "candles".

In the undertaker's, Sergeant Howie removes the lid of a coffin to reveal an elderly woman's body with amputated hand and bloody stump.

---

One Day, One Night

Sex Et Nudity: None

---

That being, being held in captivity is non-consensual.

Violence Et Gore: Moderate

One wounded guy gets finished off with a light ax to the head

One guy is bonked on the head with a stick, gets his throat slit, and suffocates in alcohol

One guy is inexplicably killed by someone he should’ve overpowered

A couple of gunshots and stabbing

One guy falls to his death

---

A rat is found dead, :cri-salute:

Profanity: Mild

Not huge a lot but profanity may include casually ableist insults like idiot

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Substance Abuse: Moderate

A bit of drunk behavior from one of the conspirators

Some smoking from others

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Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

Expect your Jumpscares by some ordinary-looking folks, up to now good, and some inexplicably-hidden elder of the family

Also, pretty sure unknowingly killing someone medically is a traumatic experience.

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Source

The Wicker Man; https://tankie.tube/w/72CkvqDsGEpaGPEgw95Yk6

One Day And One Night; https://tankie.tube/w/7MLmQcQmfhRKJbLYpLmrrh

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Berserk (2016), the third animated adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s 1989 manga of the same name. Good news; this one adapts the arc following the Golden Age saga, finally resolving the mother-of-all-cliffhangers from the 1997 series and the only-slightly-less-hanging ending of the 2012 series. A muscle-bound, sword-wielding he-man named Guts accrues a rag-tag band of companions and roams a lawless fantasy land filled with bad guys and monsters, stabbing things and lobbing off heads every step of the way. It is pretty much Conan the Barbarian meets Fist of the North Star. This is not as highly-regarded as the 1997 series, but it continues the story, which is good enough for me. Episodes 13 through 18 tonight.

After that is Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013), a French animated gothic musical steampunk fairy tale that asks, “What if Tim Burton was French?” In a whimsical mechanized city, Jack is born with a frozen heart, his life saved by replacing his heart with a cuckoo clock; to keep his heart ticking, he must never touch the clock hands, become too angry, or fall in love. Uh-oh, he meets a girl, and suddenly, his life is in jeopardy. Some musical numbers follow from there as he tries to love while not dying. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded work to date of directors Stephane Berla and Mathias Malzieu. Nice reviews for this, so let’s check it out.

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Letterboxd:

• Berserk: https://myanimelist.net/anime/32379/Berserk
• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart: https://letterboxd.com/film/jack-and-the-cuckoo-clock-heart/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Berserk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9832
• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10139

CWs for Berserk:

• Death of dog.
• Animal abandonment.
• Smoke.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abuse.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Stalking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of horse.
• Sad animal.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Sexual assault.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Finger mutilation.
• Squashed head.
• Tooth damage.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Decapitation.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Amputation.
• Asphyxiation.
• Achilles tendon injury.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Choking.
• Dislocations.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Death by falling.
• Genital trauma.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Unconsciousness.
• Stabbing.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Trypophobia.
• Possession.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Prison scene.
• Menstruation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Dissociation.
• Body dysphoria.
• Meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Flashing lights.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Jump scares.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Miscarriage.
• Death of pregnant person.
• Childbirth.
• Abortions.
• Babies.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Hate speech.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Hell.
• Bestiality.
• Incest.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• BDSM.
• Loss of virginity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Gun violence.
• Drowning.
• Carnism.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart:

• Someone is drugged.
• Child abandonment.
• Gaslighting.
• Deaths of animals.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Bullying.
• Death of child.
• Crying baby.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Clowns.
• Ghosts.
• Eye mutilation.
• Needles.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Flashing lights.
• Jump scares.
• Childbirth.
• Babies.
• Ableism.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Implied prostitution.
• Kissing.
• Chronic illness.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Drowning.
• Unconsciousness.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Berserk (2016) ep. 13: https://tankie.tube/w/cKie9xnzDnCWcEGkhaBThD
• Berserk (2016) ep. 14: https://tankie.tube/w/hK8UwN1AyVbPJjT7KDqVXm
• Berserk (2016) ep. 15: https://tankie.tube/w/hpKyYV3HSAWh3kcAXE55rr
• Berserk (2016) ep. 16: https://tankie.tube/w/rmTyAmy9MwAQrVaUe31SFg
• Berserk (2016) ep. 17: https://tankie.tube/w/nvoWqAg76VNLDEZ1zpDKPq
• Berserk (2016) ep. 18: https://tankie.tube/w/9aEsS7n7ZrJT6uWJb2Y9qn
• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart: https://tankie.tube/w/tD9SdCsESH8oRXJ5C69n6G