The Most DISTURBING Animated Movie - The Plague Dogs 

From what I remember, the book ending was originally the same as the movie with it being implied that they drowned, but the author had to change it in later publications because it was considered too upsetting.

Having parents thinking animation is a genre and not a medium to tell a story will *always* be the leading cause to someone's childhood trauma

I’m glad you’re doing this movie and I love the ending of you getting to choose if they live or die.

Now that you have done this movie...I wonder if you'd do Felidae as a review. Love the movie myself and feel it is a great animated film.

Now I wanna see a Felidae or Animal farm review. This was always an interesting movie to see people’s reactions to.

Even just listening to the fox scream gave me chills

British people were really going through it in the 80's

It’s gonna be very interesting to see Bionic review watership down and to hear him talk about how both the books for plague dogs and watership down were written by the same man

Watched this after finding it on RU-vid randomly, haven’t been the same since The opening is grim enough but then it gets worse

I saw Watership Down when I was a little kid, and it's been my favourite animated movie ever since. I even have a tattoo of the Black Rabbit of Inlé. However I didn't discover the Plague Dogs until I was a teen, after finding out that it was done by the same guy who did Watership Down. People often talk about WD as being the ultimate "traumatising kids" movie (which is a shame because it prevents kids from seeing a great movie), but TPD is much darker and, unlike WD, doesn't have a happy ending for our main characters. It's a great film, but I definitely need to be in the right headspace to watch it.

One of my favorite films. Thank you for covering it

The ending of this film hits so hard. It’s stayed with me for years now. I don’t think I’ll ever forget how devastated I was watching the credits roll.

I had a dog, now I have a cat who's sleeping beside me right now, and ugh, the visceral feeling I get from seeing that dead dog shoveled up like that. Just why dogs? their brains are differently developed than say a rat.

Like I watched this movie I was uncomfortable but not freaked out. Till the dog accidentally shot the human and I was so emotionally destroyed

Idk if you take requests but you should watch where the wind blows. Similar vibe

Stoked to see this type of video from you again man! Love ‘em! Keep ‘em coming bro plzzzzz!! These are your bread n butter my guy 🎉

This movie emotionally wrecked me as a kid

Plague Dogs: I'm the most disturbing animated movie ever made! Mad God: BET!!!!

I love this movie I watched it in high-school. It makes me so sad

Ooh, I *HEART* The Plague Dogs. I cannot decide between it and Watership Down on my list of all-time top ten animated flicks. The movie is better than the book. The animation and backdrops are beautiful and I could listen to the music and the Geordie accents all day. I like the bookending, i.e. the beginning and ending with Rowf drowning.

Thank you so much for entertaining me every day Piggy

Im reading this book at the moment and it’s even worse to read through this :(

I remember watching this when i was alot younger, it was wild 💀 but surprisingly really good

I actively avoid watching the dude getting shot. I have watched hundreds of horror films, and somehow that accidental death scene gets to me on some weird level. I’ve never actually watched the film, I think when I was younger I first saw it through Nostalgia Critic or someone affiliated with him from back then.

Holy shit ur the Mad God guy looking at your video made me want to watch it myself and I ended up doing a Comparative video essay with it.

My soul was bruised when I first saw this movie. I did not expect it to be so dismal. I can't watch it a second time.

pls do a vid on deep sea it is so good

thumbnail is a bit disrespectful to the movie, the scene and those poor dogs

I THOUGHT I FORGOT ABOUT THIS MOVIE! WHY?! WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS?!?!?!?!!?!?!!??! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My parents did that with Akira

It's a great movie about a very important topic. And I'll never watch it again as long as I live

I don't know what parent would think a movie with "plague" in the title would be a kids movie.

I vividly remember crying my eyes out at this movie when I was in high school. Good times. Also, I so badly want to adopt these poor dogs :(

In the movie the Ralph first starts saying "just keep swimming" but as soon as his friend says he cant anymore, he goes "I can see it... I can see the island". This implies 2 possible things 1 - Ralph himself starts to believe the delusion to grant himself one last happy hopeful memory before death 2 - Ralph knows its the end and wants to keep his friend happy and hopeful in his last moments Either way, its to show the devastating beauty of hope... how even when all is lost the only thing someone can do is hope. I liked the movie ending WAY better than the book because it kept in line with the tone and theme of the whole movie. Aint no way two dogs who suffered so much themselves, indirectly caused so much suffering to others (sheep, fox, humans), and are traumatised beyond the point of salvation would get a "happy ending". I want them too, but its impossible-

this really brings me back to when i was younger and came across the footage of Russian scientist basically stitching one dog head to another dog and seeing if they'd survive and they did but not too long and its just sad because it shows you how people just dont see animals as living beings with emotions and feelings when it comes to science

yeh the part where the man accidentally gets shot in the face point blank still haunts me. that music that plays is so creepy

Note: The water/swimming experiments done with Ralph at the beginning were real experiments done on rats. The experiments found that the rats/Ralph were able to swim longer during the second experiment, because having been rescued in the first experiment they now had hope they would be rescued again. This plays into the ending. My interpretation of Ralph claiming to see the island is that he just wanted to motivate Snitter to keep swimming, and knew from experience that hope could provide that motivation.

I read the book years ago, and here’s the differences between the book, and the movie, to those who are curious: Every chapter between Rowlf and Snitter, would have a chapter of Snitter’s Owner recovering in the hospital. Yes, he gets hit by a car, saving Snitter who ran into the street. The Owner asks his sister to care for the dog, and instead she sells Snitter to the laboratory, because she was upset that her brother remained unmarried, and was happy with his single life. After seeing his dog in the news, as first he was in denial, then starts going after him. The part where Snitter goes blind: in the book, he has a really painful seizure and convulses, as Rowlf watches terrified. When the man picks him up into the car, Rowlf bites him, setting Snitter free. Snitter devolves further into madness, and after he accidentally shoots the man, there’s a scene where he discusses this with Rowlf, and he declares his hatred of humans. A whole chapter was cut from the book, but it was because it was irrelevant to the story. Snitter meets a female dog of his breed, and follows her to a field, then she vanishes. Rowlf wonders if Snitter is further losing his mind, because he didn’t see another dog. The scene where Rowlf and Snitter raid a driver’s car after he pulls over to pee, originally were a married couple. The wife needed to pee, while the husband checked the tires of the car. Rowlf smelled the groceries in the car, and despite Snitter’s protests, he caved in from hunger, and raided their car, eating most of the groceries. As for the ending, it did leave off with them swimming into the ocean. Then a page where the Arthur wrote his thoughts and the protests of the first edition with the original ending. He decided to expand on it, and then we got the happy ending. Originally Snitter’s Owner happened to be in the same area by coincidence. He was there on holiday, and he was by the docks. He sees two dogs swim in the ocean, while seeing the people and helicopters. He realizes that it’s Snitter. He runs to a sailor to save his dog, and they head out to sea. The dogs are saved. Snitter is happy to see his owner, while Rowlf growls at them, while Snitter introduces him to his master. Rowlf is adopted by the owner, as he shares his sandwich. When they get home, Rowlf is given a bath (Obviously wasn’t happy), and he settles into his new life. Other then these scenes, the movie is close to the novel. It helped that they had the Arthur in on developing the film.

I wish they'd kept Tod's original death from the book. In the movie his death, while sad, at least has a purpose in helping Rowf and Snitter to escape. In the book he is killed by a pack of foxhounds for sport. His death was pointless and purely for the enjoyment of the hunters, adding to the theme of the story that we make animals suffer for no good reason.

I was introduced to this movie in passing by another RU-vid video a couple of years ago, but when I watched it myself, I lost sleep. Animal cruelty is one of those things I just can't stomach, and The Plague Dogs is downright tragic from start to finish.

It's called Plague Dogs why would someone even think it was happy. "Ah yes the plague fun times.. fun times." Great video I never heard of this movie before now.

the moment where Snitter accidentally kills the man by firing the gun makes me wonder how many times that has actually happened. chances are it had to happen at least once

This movie was hard to sit through:( espically that ending💔

This is one of those movies you unfortunately saw way too young cuz youtube was a different place back in the day. Watership Down, Felidae, and Plague Dogs were those great movies that some of us learned about a little too early in our life. They're pretty damn good movies if you're ready for them.

The sad part is, they didn't have the plague, the sheep dogs earlier in the movie confirm they don't smell of sickness. But the researchers are can't say 100% those dogs aren't infected, leading to this response.

Most animation in the 80s had that feel to it. I always think back to Akira when thinking about 80s animation

I really wish parents would use their logical skills. Back then, sure, cartoons were widely more for kids. Not a lot of people back then knew of adult themed cartoons. But now, especially because of Sausage Party, it would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble if they just knew what a dick joke is.

I remember my friend recommended the movie Falidae to me (another messed up animated movie) then Plague Dogs came on the "watch next" right after. Needless to say, I had a wild emotional night that night

i've only heard tales of how disturbing this movie is

If you think this is disturbing, don't watch "Felidae", it's far more gruesome.

Time to cry again... My mom just got rid of my emotional support puppy and now, this video. Coincidence, I think NOT! Just had to put that here, carry one

You gotta cover the stop-motion horror film The Wolf House (La casa lobos). Some of the most creative animation I’ve ever seen and it’s absolutely unnerving. It uses mixed media animation in a way I’ve never seen.

The reason a lot of parents rented this movie for their kids (Along with the stereotype that Animation=Kids Stuff) was in part because of the UK giving it a "U" rating, which in the States is the same as a "G" rating. I recall hearing that Watership Down also had a lot of traumatized kids who just wanted a movie about bunnies.😨

Good news for the peeps that wanted a not-sad ending: Read the book. The author literally felt things were too dreadful, so he wrote a happy ending for the main characters. ♥

You need to watch Felidae 1994. It's similar in the sense that it's a dark depressing animated movie about animals, except it's basically cat murder mystery. I actually just stopped watching some time in because it was so disturbing.

God… the ending is so heartbreaking. Just hearing you discuss this is making my tear up

I can watch a movie/show about crimes and stuff to humans and does not effect me that badly but as soon as it is about an animal I start getting angry/upset and sad. This movie has the harsh truth of it all but I just still hated it 😒😭

This movie fucked me right absolutely up as a kid and I haven't been able to ever rewatch it. I'll soldier through this vid for your sake Mr. BP but maybe down here in the comments section :']

Love this film. So glad you’re covering it! I would like to mention though that the woman that the scientist is with during the scene where he pets the dog is a reporter, not his wife. The dog is hers. Doesn’t change the creep factor of how he treats pets vs. the experimental animals. Just saying.

Great video! My dad showed me this movie knowing what it was about because it traumatized him as a kid. (Yay family bonding lol) He then also introduced me to the industrial band Skinny Puppy who samples some lines from this movie. The song is Testure which is about animal testing and vivisections is on their album VIVIsectVI. The entire album is basically about all the wrongs that humans do; animal testing, chemical warfare, the environmental issues, etc. It's such a good album, they are such a good band. Their music can sound a little scary at first but it all usually has a good message behind it.

I remember watching this years ago as a kid when I came across it on youtube & I was both fascinated with the animation style and haunted by all the uncensored deaths. I will never forget the music swelling in the final scene, reflecting back on everything that had just happened. I cried. Years later I have a first print copy of the book, the OST vinyl and promo prints from it's time in the cinema. It's one of those films you find good for different reasons, but also feel you can't really "recommend" it to anyone because of it's themes. But I've always respected it for how raw it was, no sugar coating.

Jesus Christ, this movie. I must have cried through the entire film. To this day, I still remember how heartbroken I was by the end of it. However, on a slightly funnier note. There was a time when I was in physical therapy and got into a discussion with two nurses about who had seen the most soul crushing movie. I remember vividly one of them describing the plot to Oldboy, but I basically said 'hold my beer' and laid this one out. I don't think I even got halfway through the plot before I was unanimously crowned the winner.

I think in the book, they explain the lab lied about the plague. Because what they were doing was wrong and I think was not ok. Like it was all done in secret and when they escaped they had to tell the public something to avoid anyone going near the dogs, so they could recapture them without getting into trouble with what they were doing to the animals. Which I don't think they explained this in the movie.

Oh god. Why are you reviewing this? And why am I watching another breakdown of this movie after Steve Reviews already scarred me for life? This borders masochism for us both.

Do "FELIDAE" next lol, its even worse than this i promisse you

Something worth mentioning is the opposite outcomes of this and watershipdown. Watership down did pretty good at the box office and has been much more popular as a cult as classic. It was adapted again in 2018 into a cgi show and has been referenced/parodied in stuff like robot chicken. Plague dogs on the other hand did terrible at the box office with barely anyone going and whoever did go left the screening early due to how sad it was. Apparently the director would ask them what they thought of the movie and some people hit him for making such a sad film. It’s been a lot less known then watership down

If I recall, the whole 'plague' bit was actually a lie the "whitecoats" told to keep the dogs from being saved so their crime and abuse of dogs wouldn't be realized. EDIT: There's a third animated animal movie this guy made. Felidae. It's just as bad.

You really can't completely blame the parents. Clueless video stores would put all animation into the kid's section, including hentai. There was a case where back in the 90s an anime fan saw "Legend of the Overfiend" in the children's section and warned the manager. Fortunately, it had been on the shelves for only a day and no child had rented it yet.

I once found a kids book called wings of fire that has the same let’s be as messed up as possible problem, like it’s idea if character trama makes real trama from real people look like something they could just ignore, you should cover it.

Me immediately: Oh god, it's Watership Down with dogs.. 10 seconds later: "You guessed it! The Watership Down guy!"

Look up felidae... same disturbing stuff with cats ...

The thrill of fully knowing the thing you’re about to watch is going to bum you out because you’re desperate to feel something haha

I don’t understand how a parent can see “plague dogs” and think it’s going to be a fun and light hearted film 😅 the first word is PLAGUE ffs

0:40 Seriously, when did parents stop watching movies before they show it to their kids?!

Your great pig, been watching for years. You keep getting better even if the views and subs don’t align with that.

Plague dogs is 100% worth watching though.

14:27, rule number one of watching movies like this. Never let your guard down

My jaw is truly on the floor 14:20

14:35 And this is the exact same feeling that vegans get when confronted with the awful reality off the world, and what we humans put non-human animals through for not just a mediocre benefit, but for pleasure. An adoring pet owner who lavishes their pet with food, treats, comfort, and love, sitting down to eat the corpse of another animal who never got the chance to feel or experience that same love before they were tortured on the kill floor and had their life cruelly ended. One shouldn't have to own their own pig, chicken, cow, turkey, rat, rabbit, monkey, fish etc to rightfully feel disgusted by what is happening behind closed doors, though it does emphasis the hypocrisy of the situation tenfold. Fundamentally and scientifically speaking, there is no difference between a pet and any other sentient animal, other than the subjective value people put on them. Regardless of the minuscule differing levels; we all feel pain, we all suffer in some degree in life. Therefore, it just makes sense we extend our empathy and compassion to those who suffer along or even for the purpose of us, the latter of course being wrong to cause in the first place. Animal testing is a cruel practice, and more moves need to be made to abolish it. PIG mentions that the discussion on if this is right or wrong is still up for debate, however the fact that this is still prevalent and acceptable today already show where those in power think on that stance. I encourage people to look up waynehhsiung, who is a animal advocate who recently rescued a blind beagle puppy from horrible living conditions inside an animal testing lab, and is getting arrested for it because the government argues these puppies are "things" that can be "dented and replaced like mere store products" (their words paraphrased). This is absolutely more real and more scary than people think. I'm so glad that people feel disgusted by what is going on here, and I only wish this feeling extended past just dogs, cats and the cute animals.

Pig, I know you probably get down on yourself and feel like you are constantly battling uphill against the world but as cheesy as it sounds, you are an inspiration lil pup. Seriously though. The media you cover (whether it is a movie, true crime video, or literally anything else) is so refreshingly entertaining because of how deeply you engage the topics being discussed. I hope you keep making content for as long as it brings you joy (and ideally some form of financial stability), Pig. You and yours deserve the best

14:15 yeah, I guess I'll take a break and continue watching this another time...

always happy to see Pig in my feed 💖 love listening to you talk about animated horror, especially ones I've never heard of before

Watership down is so f'up too & I love bunnies, those bunnies are evil!!😈😝

Why would anyone ever assume that a dog shot a person with a shotgun? Did they eat the corpse after?

I saw your community post. I hope your channel gets better and I love this video.

You should watch Felidae!

Maybe the entire thing was in his head. Stories to tell himself between drownings, which he imagined as the ocean. 😢

This was the first movie to make me cry.

Animation is for depressed adults too

This movie is really hard to watch man, but it's really well done.

I read The Plague Dogs. Never watched the movie. Now I work for a place that develops medical devices for people. Apparently they also do animal testing... Yeah. I am not really sure what to think. I'm saving lives with the devices I make but... yeah.

Had to stop watching coz my dog walked into the room and i started sobbing

Most of these animals don't get a happy ending. Sadly. In sweden, there was a case of six labradors being tested for teeth implants (stupid because dogs and humans doesn't share teeth or mouth) and it started an outrage over the country because of it. The workers said the dogs where well taken care of but how can you say that while ripping off their teeth? Either way, people where open to pay and adopt them, to give them a chance of life and go through veterinary costs to achieve it. But the workers said "no, they need to be euthinazed" which sparked more of an outrage. Makes you wonder what more they did towards the poor dogs.

Years ago I came across this movie on yt and I watched it w my dad. It's still plays in my head all these years, even my dad remebers. We r scarred for life

Honestly one of my favourite movies along with Watership down ❤ the way I describe plague dogs to people who haven’t seen it is “visceral”

The dog pressing the trigger is soo ridiculous.

The most DISTURBING animated movie, huh? Wait until you see Felidae.😅

Me sitting here eating hot dogs and hasbrowns while watching this

thank you for continuing to upload!

This story is not only about animal cruelty, It is much more, it's humans abus1ng and epxloiting what they consider to be "less deserving creatures". That could explain the pampered yorkshire dog part... It's a GREAT story, definitely.