The Plague Dogs/Nightmare Fuel
- It's Grave of the Fireflies with puppies. See it here. The relentless realism prevents you from laughing it off unless you are a sadist. Gah!
- Plague Dogs was also subject to Misaimed Marketing, with a cheerful cover of cute dogs featuring the tagline "Escape to A Different World... And Share The Adventure Of A Lifetime". ("A SPECIAL KIND OF MOVIE MAGIC From The Creators Of Watership Down.") It features two stray dogs that had been captured and sold to a laboratory which experimented on animals. One of these experiments for some reason involved dropping a dog into a pool full of water and timing how long he was able to paddle until he started drowning; and that's just one example. There's also a scene of a nice man going hunting who befriends one of the starving dogs, only to accidentally shoot himself in the face. Quite messily.
