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A novel by RichardAdams about two dogs named [[BigFriendlyDog Rowf]] and [[MisterMuffykins Snitter]]. The two narrowly escape from an animal testing lab and roam the English countryside with the help of a fox named [[PunnyName The Tod]]. The facility, [[FunWithAcronyms Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental]], attempts to reclaim the dogs and spreads a rumour that the two harbour a dangerous bioweapon to assist in their capture, hence the title. It was [[AnimatedAdaptation made into an animated feature-length film]] in TheEighties a few of years after RichardAdams' other book WatershipDown.
Known for being DarkerAndGrittier than the previous work, it is set in the [[GrimUpNorth gray and wintry fells]] of England's [[OopNorth Lake District]]. The animated adaptation is an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids infamous]] [[TearJerker/WesternAnimation Tear Jerker]] as well; the original print of the film was censored for wide release and is [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes considered rare]].
Emphasis is made of Rowf's {{Woobie}} status as an animal subjected to repeated drowning experiments, and Snitter's role as a DoomMagnet is emphasized in at least one scene of [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace death and serious injury]] that is probably the emotional nadir of the story.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AnimalTesting
* AnimalTalk
* ArtShift: Snitter's mental hallucinations are portrayed this way on film, and also in-story to suggest his [[{{Xenofiction}} limited eyesight]]
* TheAtoner: [[IntrepidReporter Digby Driver]]. A lot of what goes wrong for the dogs is his fault, but he later makes up for it by [[spoiler:finding Snitter's owner and helping save the two dogs]].
* BlatantLies: While Rowf and Snitter are running from the humans, The Tod offers to distract the humans so they can get away. [[spoiler: He ends up getting killed in the process, and Rowf and Snitter are very aware of it, but assure each other that there's no way the humans got him, because he was too clever.]] They are both quite aware that this isn't true.
* BradBird: Helped [[NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationFilm animate]] the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film of the book]] before joining {{Pixar}}.
* BreakTheCutie: It happens over and over and it [[ItGotWorse only gets worse]] as the plot progresses.
* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding]]: The film version only.
* CloudCuckoolander: Snitter, due to multiple brain surgeries that removed the barrier between his conscious and subconscious.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Animal testing includes drowning, vivisection, etc.
* CunningLikeAFox: The Tod is a literal example.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Rowf, Snitter and Snitter's owner.]]
* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued]] [[ContrivedCoincidence by a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].
* DogsAreDumb: Both subverted and played straight.
* DoomMagnet: Snitter literally believes himself to be this, suggesting that they cannot kill him because if he dies all the humans would die, too.
* DownerEnding: The DeusExMachina is not present in the film version and it's strongly implied that the two protagonists [[spoiler: drown to death]].
* EvilStepmother: Snitter's master's mother-in-law sells him to the animal testing lab, leaving Snitter to assume his master is LeftForDead.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Oh so very many. [[spoiler: The Tod]] is shot to death, [[spoiler: both dogs]] are strongly implied to drown to death, a man is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and a hunter is killed by a long fall and his corpse is eaten.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Tod]] gives himself up to buy the two protagonists time to escape.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Why is [[PatrickStewart Capt. Picard]] commanding his military detachment to hunt down two stray dogs?
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WesternAnimation High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Both the novel and the movie are rife with it, but the movie's deleted scene with the mangled and eaten corpse of the BountyHunter is probably the worst.
* HumansAreBastards: Played with. The "[[ManInWhite White]] [[MadScientist coats]]" certainly qualify here, even to the point of being [[HumansAreCthulhu Cthulhu-esque]], but most of the humans are three dimensional, and only are after Rowf and Snitter because they killed sheep, and eventually [[spoiler: a man]]. Completely averted in the case of Snitter's idea of "Masters," whom he almost deifies.
** At least one of the scientists, Stephen Powell, comes across as sensible. He later quits his job after his conscience can't take it anymore.
* HumansAreCthulhu
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Probably the most infamous and depressing scene in the book and film.
* IntellectualAnimal
* ItGotWorse
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Having been censored due to content and United Artists' appalling reaction to the film causing them to dump it on the marketplace in 1982, only 8,000 copies of the uncut film exist on tape and an Australian DVD of Martin Rosen's personal scratchy work-print. The uncut 103-minute version exists online, however.
* MoodWhiplash: see Marvin, above.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Strongly implied.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Completely averted.
* NotQuiteDead: In the novel, [[spoiler:Snitter's owner]].
* OopNorth: It's {{grim up north}} if you are a dog on the run.
* OuterLimitsTwist: The hunter who wants to adopt Snitter.
* PetTheDog: The above-mentioned hunter who can't bring himself to shoot Snitter, and tries to literally pet him. [[{{Understatement}} It... doesn't go so well]].
* PunnyName: Several
** Rowf: Canine onomatopoeia
** The Tod: Means fox in middle-English
** Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental: A.R.S.E.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Snitter and Rowf view Humans as a [[HumansAreCthulhu dangerous cosmic force]] that have turned against them.
* ShellShockedVeteran: At the research facility Rowf was forced to swim around in a tank of water until he couldn't swim anymore and drowns. He would then be taken out of the tank, revived and forced to repeat the whole process over again. The experience has understandably left him with a crippling fear of water.
* ShesAManInJapan: In the book, the IntrepidReporter chasing the dogs is a man named Digby Driver. In the film, for no apparent reason, the reporter is a woman named Lynn Driver.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Surprisingly literal.
* SoundtrackDissonance: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVU-JI8iF0#t=5m00s Time And Tide]], a cheerful, Cat Stevens-esque ''gospel song'' about dying.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Geoffrey Westcott. Although he appears in the film, his role as the man that [[spoiler:falls off a cliff]] is taken by Ackland, a BountyHunter hired by Dr. Boycott to take out the dogs.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Tod.
* WaifProphet: Snitter is a bit of an {{expy}} for [[WatershipDown Fiver]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The AnimatedAdaptation of WatershipDown is actually tame and kid-friendly in comparison to ThePlagueDogs. The dogs have visible genitals, there's a very clear DownerEnding and there's a scene where a man gets his head blown off and the protagonist is spattered in his blood. There's even a deleted scene that implies that the corpse of a man who fell down a cliff was eaten by the two protagonists.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Rowf's aversion to water.
* {{Xenofiction}}: the dogs' [[DogsAreDumb limited]] intelligence is portrayed surprisingly realistically, although they are much more intelligent than the [[CarnivoreConfusion monstrous beasts]] of ''WatershipDown''.
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A novel by RichardAdams about two dogs named [[BigFriendlyDog Rowf]] and [[MisterMuffykins Snitter]]. The two narrowly escape from an animal testing lab and roam the English countryside with the help of a fox named [[PunnyName The Tod]]. The facility, [[FunWithAcronyms Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental]], attempts to reclaim the dogs and spreads a rumour that the two harbour a dangerous bioweapon to assist in their capture, hence the title. It was [[AnimatedAdaptation made into an animated feature-length film]] in TheEighties a few of years after RichardAdams' other book WatershipDown.
Known for being DarkerAndGrittier than the previous work, it is set in the [[GrimUpNorth gray and wintry fells]] of England's [[OopNorth Lake District]]. The animated adaptation is an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids infamous]] [[TearJerker/WesternAnimation Tear Jerker]] as well; the original print of the film was censored for wide release and is [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes considered rare]].
Emphasis is made of Rowf's {{Woobie}} status as an animal subjected to repeated drowning experiments, and Snitter's role as a DoomMagnet is emphasized in at least one scene of [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace death and serious injury]] that is probably the emotional nadir of the story.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AnimalTesting
* AnimalTalk
* ArtShift: Snitter's mental hallucinations are portrayed this way on film, and also in-story to suggest his [[{{Xenofiction}} limited eyesight]]
* TheAtoner: [[IntrepidReporter Digby Driver]]. A lot of what goes wrong for the dogs is his fault, but he later makes up for it by [[spoiler:finding Snitter's owner and helping save the two dogs]].
* BlatantLies: While Rowf and Snitter are running from the humans, The Tod offers to distract the humans so they can get away. [[spoiler: He ends up getting killed in the process, and Rowf and Snitter are very aware of it, but assure each other that there's no way the humans got him, because he was too clever.]] They are both quite aware that this isn't true.
* BradBird: Helped [[NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationFilm animate]] the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film of the book]] before joining {{Pixar}}.
* BreakTheCutie: It happens over and over and it [[ItGotWorse only gets worse]] as the plot progresses.
* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding]]: The film version only.
* CloudCuckoolander: Snitter, due to multiple brain surgeries that removed the barrier between his conscious and subconscious.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Animal testing includes drowning, vivisection, etc.
* CunningLikeAFox: The Tod is a literal example.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Rowf, Snitter and Snitter's owner.]]
* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued]] [[ContrivedCoincidence by a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].
* DogsAreDumb: Both subverted and played straight.
* DoomMagnet: Snitter literally believes himself to be this, suggesting that they cannot kill him because if he dies all the humans would die, too.
* DownerEnding: The DeusExMachina is not present in the film version and it's strongly implied that the two protagonists [[spoiler: drown to death]].
* EvilStepmother: Snitter's master's mother-in-law sells him to the animal testing lab, leaving Snitter to assume his master is LeftForDead.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Oh so very many. [[spoiler: The Tod]] is shot to death, [[spoiler: both dogs]] are strongly implied to drown to death, a man is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and a hunter is killed by a long fall and his corpse is eaten.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Tod]] gives himself up to buy the two protagonists time to escape.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Why is [[PatrickStewart Capt. Picard]] commanding his military detachment to hunt down two stray dogs?
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WesternAnimation High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Both the novel and the movie are rife with it, but the movie's deleted scene with the mangled and eaten corpse of the BountyHunter is probably the worst.
* HumansAreBastards: Played with. The "[[ManInWhite White]] [[MadScientist coats]]" certainly qualify here, even to the point of being [[HumansAreCthulhu Cthulhu-esque]], but most of the humans are three dimensional, and only are after Rowf and Snitter because they killed sheep, and eventually [[spoiler: a man]]. Completely averted in the case of Snitter's idea of "Masters," whom he almost deifies.
** At least one of the scientists, Stephen Powell, comes across as sensible. He later quits his job after his conscience can't take it anymore.
* HumansAreCthulhu
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Probably the most infamous and depressing scene in the book and film.
* IntellectualAnimal
* ItGotWorse
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Having been censored due to content and United Artists' appalling reaction to the film causing them to dump it on the marketplace in 1982, only 8,000 copies of the uncut film exist on tape and an Australian DVD of Martin Rosen's personal scratchy work-print. The uncut 103-minute version exists online, however.
* MoodWhiplash: see Marvin, above.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Strongly implied.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Completely averted.
* NotQuiteDead: In the novel, [[spoiler:Snitter's owner]].
* OopNorth: It's {{grim up north}} if you are a dog on the run.
* OuterLimitsTwist: The hunter who wants to adopt Snitter.
* PetTheDog: The above-mentioned hunter who can't bring himself to shoot Snitter, and tries to literally pet him. [[{{Understatement}} It... doesn't go so well]].
* PunnyName: Several
** Rowf: Canine onomatopoeia
** The Tod: Means fox in middle-English
** Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental: A.R.S.E.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Snitter and Rowf view Humans as a [[HumansAreCthulhu dangerous cosmic force]] that have turned against them.
* ShellShockedVeteran: At the research facility Rowf was forced to swim around in a tank of water until he couldn't swim anymore and drowns. He would then be taken out of the tank, revived and forced to repeat the whole process over again. The experience has understandably left him with a crippling fear of water.
* ShesAManInJapan: In the book, the IntrepidReporter chasing the dogs is a man named Digby Driver. In the film, for no apparent reason, the reporter is a woman named Lynn Driver.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Surprisingly literal.
* SoundtrackDissonance: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVU-JI8iF0#t=5m00s Time And Tide]], a cheerful, Cat Stevens-esque ''gospel song'' about dying.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Geoffrey Westcott. Although he appears in the film, his role as the man that [[spoiler:falls off a cliff]] is taken by Ackland, a BountyHunter hired by Dr. Boycott to take out the dogs.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Tod.
* WaifProphet: Snitter is a bit of an {{expy}} for [[WatershipDown Fiver]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The AnimatedAdaptation of WatershipDown is actually tame and kid-friendly in comparison to ThePlagueDogs. The dogs have visible genitals, there's a very clear DownerEnding and there's a scene where a man gets his head blown off and the protagonist is spattered in his blood. There's even a deleted scene that implies that the corpse of a man who fell down a cliff was eaten by the two protagonists.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Rowf's aversion to water.
* {{Xenofiction}}: the dogs' [[DogsAreDumb limited]] intelligence is portrayed surprisingly realistically, although they are much more intelligent than the [[CarnivoreConfusion monstrous beasts]] of ''WatershipDown''.
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A novel by RichardAdams about two dogs named [[BigFriendlyDog Rowf]] and [[MisterMuffykins Snitter]]. The two narrowly escape from an animal testing lab and roam the English countryside with the help of a fox named [[PunnyName The Tod]]. The facility, [[FunWithAcronyms Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental]], attempts to reclaim the dogs and spreads a rumour that the two harbour a dangerous bioweapon to assist in their capture, hence the title. It was [[AnimatedAdaptation made into an animated feature-length film]] in TheEighties a few of years after RichardAdams' other book WatershipDown.
Known for being DarkerAndGrittier than the previous work, it is set in the [[GrimUpNorth gray and wintry fells]] of England's [[OopNorth Lake District]]. The animated adaptation is an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids infamous]] [[TearJerker/WesternAnimation Tear Jerker]] as well; the original print of the film was censored for wide release and is [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes considered rare]].
Emphasis is made of Rowf's {{Woobie}} status as an animal subjected to repeated drowning experiments, and Snitter's role as a DoomMagnet is emphasized in at least one scene of [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace death and serious injury]] that is probably the emotional nadir of the story.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AnimalTesting
* AnimalTalk
* ArtShift: Snitter's mental hallucinations are portrayed this way on film, and also in-story to suggest his [[{{Xenofiction}} limited eyesight]]
* TheAtoner: [[IntrepidReporter Digby Driver]]. A lot of what goes wrong for the dogs is his fault, but he later makes up for it by [[spoiler:finding Snitter's owner and helping save the two dogs]].
* BlatantLies: While Rowf and Snitter are running from the humans, The Tod offers to distract the humans so they can get away. [[spoiler: He ends up getting killed in the process, and Rowf and Snitter are very aware of it, but assure each other that there's no way the humans got him, because he was too clever.]] They are both quite aware that this isn't true.
* BradBird: Helped [[NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationFilm animate]] the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film of the book]] before joining {{Pixar}}.
* BreakTheCutie: It happens over and over and it [[ItGotWorse only gets worse]] as the plot progresses.
* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding]]: The film version only.
* CloudCuckoolander: Snitter, due to multiple brain surgeries that removed the barrier between his conscious and subconscious.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Animal testing includes drowning, vivisection, etc.
* CunningLikeAFox: The Tod is a literal example.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Rowf, Snitter and Snitter's owner.]]
* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued]] [[ContrivedCoincidence by a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].
* DogsAreDumb: Both subverted and played straight.
* DoomMagnet: Snitter literally believes himself to be this, suggesting that they cannot kill him because if he dies all the humans would die, too.
* DownerEnding: The DeusExMachina is not present in the film version and it's strongly implied that the two protagonists [[spoiler: drown to death]].
* EvilStepmother: Snitter's master's mother-in-law sells him to the animal testing lab, leaving Snitter to assume his master is LeftForDead.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Oh so very many. [[spoiler: The Tod]] is shot to death, [[spoiler: both dogs]] are strongly implied to drown to death, a man is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and a hunter is killed by a long fall and his corpse is eaten.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Tod]] gives himself up to buy the two protagonists time to escape.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Why is [[PatrickStewart Capt. Picard]] commanding his military detachment to hunt down two stray dogs?
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WesternAnimation High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Both the novel and the movie are rife with it, but the movie's deleted scene with the mangled and eaten corpse of the BountyHunter is probably the worst.
* HumansAreBastards: Played with. The "[[ManInWhite White]] [[MadScientist coats]]" certainly qualify here, even to the point of being [[HumansAreCthulhu Cthulhu-esque]], but most of the humans are three dimensional, and only are after Rowf and Snitter because they killed sheep, and eventually [[spoiler: a man]]. Completely averted in the case of Snitter's idea of "Masters," whom he almost deifies.
** At least one of the scientists, Stephen Powell, comes across as sensible. He later quits his job after his conscience can't take it anymore.
* HumansAreCthulhu
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Probably the most infamous and depressing scene in the book and film.
* IntellectualAnimal
* ItGotWorse
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Having been censored due to content and United Artists' appalling reaction to the film causing them to dump it on the marketplace in 1982, only 8,000 copies of the uncut film exist on tape and an Australian DVD of Martin Rosen's personal scratchy work-print. The uncut 103-minute version exists online, however.
* MoodWhiplash: see Marvin, above.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Strongly implied.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Completely averted.
* NotQuiteDead: In the novel, [[spoiler:Snitter's owner]].
* OopNorth: It's {{grim up north}} if you are a dog on the run.
* OuterLimitsTwist: The hunter who wants to adopt Snitter.
* PetTheDog: The above-mentioned hunter who can't bring himself to shoot Snitter, and tries to literally pet him. [[{{Understatement}} It... doesn't go so well]].
* PunnyName: Several
** Rowf: Canine onomatopoeia
** The Tod: Means fox in middle-English
** Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental: A.R.S.E.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Snitter and Rowf view Humans as a [[HumansAreCthulhu dangerous cosmic force]] that have turned against them.
* ShellShockedVeteran: At the research facility Rowf was forced to swim around in a tank of water until he couldn't swim anymore and drowns. He would then be taken out of the tank, revived and forced to repeat the whole process over again. The experience has understandably left him with a crippling fear of water.
* ShesAManInJapan: In the book, the IntrepidReporter chasing the dogs is a man named Digby Driver. In the film, for no apparent reason, the reporter is a woman named Lynn Driver.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Surprisingly literal.
* SoundtrackDissonance: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVU-JI8iF0#t=5m00s Time And Tide]], a cheerful, Cat Stevens-esque ''gospel song'' about dying.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Geoffrey Westcott. Although he appears in the film, his role as the man that [[spoiler:falls off a cliff]] is taken by Ackland, a BountyHunter hired by Dr. Boycott to take out the dogs.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Tod.
* WaifProphet: Snitter is a bit of an {{expy}} for [[WatershipDown Fiver]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The AnimatedAdaptation of WatershipDown is actually tame and kid-friendly in comparison to ThePlagueDogs. The dogs have visible genitals, there's a very clear DownerEnding and there's a scene where a man gets his head blown off and the protagonist is spattered in his blood. There's even a deleted scene that implies that the corpse of a man who fell down a cliff was eaten by the two protagonists.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Rowf's aversion to water.
* {{Xenofiction}}: the dogs' [[DogsAreDumb limited]] intelligence is portrayed surprisingly realistically, although they are much more intelligent than the [[CarnivoreConfusion monstrous beasts]] of ''WatershipDown''.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Oh so very many. [[spoiler: The Tod]] is shot to death, [[spoiler: both dogs]] are strongly implied to drown to death, a man is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and a pilot hunter is killed by a long fall out of his helicopter and his corpse is eaten.
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* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued [[ContrivedCoincidence by Snitter's former master in a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].]]
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* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued rescued]] [[ContrivedCoincidence by Snitter's former master in a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].]]
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* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued]] [[ContrivedCoincidence by a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].
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* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued]] rescued [[ContrivedCoincidence by Snitter's former master in a boat that just happened to be hanging around]].]]
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Oh so very many. [[spoiler: The Tod]] is shot to death, [[spoiler: both dogs]] drown to death, a man is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and a pilot is killed by a long fall out of his helicopter and his corpse is eaten.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Oh so very many. [[spoiler: The Tod]] is shot to death, [[spoiler: both dogs]] are strongly implied to drown to death, a man is shot in the face with blood splattering everywhere, and a pilot is killed by a long fall out of his helicopter and his corpse is eaten.
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* HumansAreCthulhu
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Having been censored due to content and United Artists' appalling reaction to the film causing them to dump it on the marketplace in 1982, only 8,000 copies of the uncut film exist on tape and an Australian DVD of Martin Rosen's work-print. The uncut 103-minute version exists online, however.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Having been censored due to content and United Artists' appalling reaction to the film causing them to dump it on the marketplace in 1982, only 8,000 copies of the uncut film exist on tape and an Australian DVD of Martin Rosen's personal scratchy work-print. The uncut 103-minute version exists online, however.
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* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued by Snitter's former owner]] who [[ContrivedCoincidence just happened to be]] hanging around on a boat where the two dogs end up.
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* DeusExMachina: At the end of the novel both dogs [[spoiler: are rescued by Snitter's former owner]] who rescued]] [[ContrivedCoincidence by a boat that just happened to be]] be hanging around on a boat where the two dogs end up.around]].
