# Movies that have the dog die (possible spoilers?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744 "2009-04-20T17:00:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/41 "2009-04-20T21:44:08Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > The more I think about this, the less sure I am. In the original release, the dog’s death isn’t shown or implied. It’s only in the extended version that Robert Patrick goes outside to the pen where John’s dog Max is barking up a storm and kills him, though it’s not especially graphic - Patrick reaches down out of frame, the barking abruptly ends with a yelp and a crunching sound, and Patrick examines a torn-off dog collar. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/42 "2009-04-20T21:59:57Z")
**Dances with Wolves** Granted Two-socks wasn’t a pet dog or nothing, but I have seen that movie probably 20 times, and I have never actually seen that scene ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/43 "2009-04-20T22:30:40Z")
The “dog” (he’s a genetic manipulation creation that looks like a dog) dies at the end of [Man’s Best Friend](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107504/) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/44 "2009-04-20T22:36:05Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > In the original release, the dog’s death isn’t shown or implied. It’s only in the extended version that Robert Patrick goes outside to the pen where John’s dog Max is barking up a storm and kills him, though it’s not especially graphic - Patrick reaches down out of frame, the barking abruptly ends with a yelp and a crunching sound, and Patrick examines a torn-off dog collar. Thank you, that explains my confusion. I don’t feel so addled now. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/45 "2009-04-20T22:58:01Z")
[Fear](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116287/) [Danika](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469062/) [Resident Evil](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120804/) …and what’s that bad scifi movie from 3-7 years ago that involves young people wandering about a dark tunnel or cave when they discover the dog is dead but being moved about by the monster/alien that infected him? The fur ripples when someone goes to pet him…I think it stared an actor(s?) from a show on the WB/CW. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/46 "2009-04-21T00:09:35Z")
In “War the the Roses”, it’s my contention that the dog was originally eaten, but they chickened out. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/47 "2009-04-21T00:18:01Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > In “War the the Roses”, it’s my contention that the dog was originally eaten, but they chickened out. Yeah, I noticed that, too. Although the dog gets a one-second shot establishing that Kathleen Turner didn’t kill it, there is no barking or other indication even while Danny Devito and the housekeeper try to break into the house. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/48 "2009-04-21T00:19:15Z")
Just thought of one I can’t believe we didn’t think of yet: [Vacation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Wc92bFiZk). ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/49 "2009-04-21T00:49:53Z")
One of the best movies featuring the death of a dog is **Fresh**. It really is a pivotal scene in the movie and rather a shocking one. My wife hates the movie for that scene, but I felt it was an important insight into the motivation of the lead character. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/50 "2009-04-21T01:23:26Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > In “War the the Roses”, it’s my contention that the dog was originally eaten, but they chickened out. You just reminded me of another one: [Urban Legend](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146336/). It’s not eaten, but it is cooked. ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/51 "2009-04-21T01:38:13Z")
**Revenge** with Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/52 "2009-04-21T01:42:40Z")
I just remembered another one : [Theater of Blood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070791/) ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/53 "2009-04-21T02:25:52Z")
A dog dies in _Rear Window_, though it’s not the protagonist’s and it’s not shown on-screen. It does become a plot point, though. ---
**Author:** ![Book\_it](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Book\_it](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Book_it)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/54 "2009-04-21T02:49:29Z")
Cape Fear ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/55 "2009-04-21T03:17:12Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > A dog dies in _Rear Window_, though it’s not the protagonist’s and it’s not shown on-screen. It does become a plot point, though. Oh yeah, good one. Because he keeps digging up the garden. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/56 "2009-04-21T03:28:59Z")
OK I can’t stand it. In Stone Fox the number one tear jerker dead dog movie , a young boy and his dog join a grueling dog sled race to raise money to save Grampa’s farm. {Buddy Ebsen} He’s going against well know teams including an Eskimo with a team of large white Huskies. He decides since he’s light and his sled is light he and his one dog can win by cutting across the partially frozen lake. Ok the race goes on and is very challenging. He breaks through the ice but makes it out. Then, with the finish line in sight his little dog falls over dead from exhaustion before he can cross it. The Eskimo with the white dogs comes up and stops and tells him to take his dog across the finish line. He picks up his dead dog and with tears streaming down his face carries the doggie corpse across the finish line to win the race. Ta Da! ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/57 "2009-04-21T13:45:33Z")
_Funny Games_. Michael Pitt and whoever the other guy is kill the dog of the family they torment as sort of an opener. The way you see the dead dog spill out of the family’s car in front of Naomi Watts, I wasn’t sure that they didn’t actually kill a dog for the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/58 "2009-04-21T14:24:14Z")
I remember a mutant dog wailing in misery in **The Fly II** , but can’t recall if it dies. As good as dead, if not. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/59 "2009-04-21T14:26:32Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I’m trying to remember if a dog died in [Mimic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(film)), or if it was just a kid or two. I do remember being surprised at the time that a Movie Kid got killed but don’t recall (over a decade later) if a dog was involved too. My husband corrected my memory on this - no dog involved at all, two obnoxious kids taken out though. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/60 "2009-04-21T15:28:54Z")
This is the second time this week I’ve mentioned _Big Jake_. John Wayne’s character has a loyal and ferocious dog (looks like a collie mix) christened with the oh-so-creative name “Dog”. In the climactic battle, Dog makes the ultimate sacrifice defending his master and is slain in the line of duty by a machete-wielding bad guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744.md?page=4)