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The Plague Dogs
1982 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Martin Rosen
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They're pursued by search parties and then the military after rumours spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
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The Plague Dogs is so unrelentingly bleak, few films have the spine to just be utterly hopeless. It's like a "children's" version of something like Threads or The Lighthouse lol
> The Plague Dogs
I think a LOT of UK school kids were truamatised by this, a lot of teachers, saw it thought 'oh, same author (Richard Adams) and director (Martin Rosen) as Watership Down, lets stick the kids in front of this while we do something else.
Man, that film was harrowing.
Or The Plague Dogs. I didn't read the book but saw the movie. Just a touch grim.
Man, I had nightmares from the Watership Down movie as a kid. Now I feel like I have to watch Plague Dogs just to balance things out.
Warning: The Plague Dogs film is so viscerally traumatic that even if you're an adult the imagery can travel back in time and ruin your own childhood.
Like Watership Down, Plague Dogs was made into an animated film, which can be found available on the intertubes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084509/