Okay, I’m too sensitive, or too ridiculous, or just too much. But my husband and I were going to see The Grey this afternoon, when it occurred to me they might show some wolves being slaughtered. Wolves eating people - I’m fine with that in a movie. People hurting wolves - no matter how much I tell myself that it’s a movie and no wolves were actually hurt,band most are probably CG - I can’t stand it.
So how much animal injury or death is shown? We went to see Contraband instead.
Watching wolves chew up people doesn’t bother you but watching people kill wolves does? Wha??
Full spoiler description: http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/thegrey.html
Short answer? Yes.
Cubsfan, I can be the same way - certain types of film or book violence I can shrug off as being just fiction, but other things stick in parts of my brain and torment me. Most regular fighting, gunfights, etc., I can shrug off, but serious torture, rape, harming kids, or cruelty to animals? Oh god, no.
Umm…from what I have heard (assuming that is accurate) they did kill four wolves during the production of the movie. They ate two of them.
Yep. I’m pretty sure I’d hear if real people died during the filming of a movie, but I know I wouldn’t hear if any animals were injured or died. So I can relax if people are in danger during a movie, but I can’t if an animal is in danger.
Thank you for your posts; I’m skipping it.
Yeeesh! That link hung up my computer to the point where I had to do a shut down, FH sorry. Maybe it’s just a busy site, but I couldn’t even close out of it.
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But neither people or animals were *really *killed during the filming of the movie.
Are you asking if when they kill the wolves on screen if they were actually killing the wolves in real life? 
I saw the film today (it was better than I had expected, though of course wolves rarely ever kill humans, so the whole premise was a bit stupid. I think there have been 11 known cases in the past 100 years. But other than that it was done well.) and whenever a character was fighting with a wolf it looked very animatronic.
If reports by PETA and others are to be believed, FOUR wolves were killed in the pre-production and production of the movie.
Yeah, I find that hard to believe.
Doing a quick search online just now, apparently they got several frozen wolf carcasses from a local trapper so they could taste the meat to “get into character.” Wolves that the trapper had already (legally) killed and were in his freezer. Perhaps a pointless exercise, but it’s hardly the same thing as the claim that the production crew killed four wolves for their use in the movie.