Graphic nature: RL predation, blood and guts hardvore
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:42 pm"Warning: due to the graphic nature of this program viewer discretion is advised."
For many decades wildlife photographers and filmmakers have been visually documenting natural animal predation including hunting, killing and feeding behavior. Images of hunting have been readily distributed through mass market venues such as television; images of killing are less prevalent but are still shown, sometimes with warnings about their strong emotional impact. Images of feeding are much rarer to see because of their shock value; often they can be quite gory. Natural science books often written by the same filmmakers do not hold back in their graphic descriptions of how prey animals are seized, ripped to pieces and eaten alive over the course of several long minutes before they die. On film, those details are usually glossed over with careful framing and editing of the shots, shortening those scenes if they are included at all in order to minimize any sense of the prey's suffering and focusing attention away from the savage butchery, shredding flesh and spilling blood and guts. Take, for example, this short video recently uploaded by the filmmaker Kim Wolhuter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKo_FpHU10
The YouTube video appears to be sped up. The same video is hosted on Wolhuter's own site:
http://www.wildcast.net/2007/09/09/a-re ... ill-video/
He describes how lengthy and savage the scene of a zebra being killed by lions is, and then explains how he deliberately downplays the most horrific details of the assault on the zebra's flesh through judicious editing. While what remains is still quite brutal, what is not seen is that the lions are most likely tearing open the zebra's belly with their teeth and shoving their jaws into the body cavity to devour its vital organs, eating the suffering animal alive from the inside. The video shows none of that, instead focusing on peripheral details.
The rationale is that most audiences do not care to see such horrific scenes but around the fringes of our current culture and throughout history there has always existed some human craving to witness such violence. Being eaten alive by wild beasts is an extremely savage and intimate death, and the spectacle can be thrilling.
Occasionally images of such violence and suffering do get distributed to a wider audience as standards of acceptable content gradually become less restrictive over time. The BBC broadcast a few special episodes of Big Cat Diary in the summer of 2006 titled Big Cat Week Uncut which included harsh, uncensored footage of predatory behavior. More than a year later these episodes have never been rebroadcast or offered commercially. It takes some persistence to seek out similar hard vore content on the web and elsewhere, and this is intended to be a place to share what we have found.
For many decades wildlife photographers and filmmakers have been visually documenting natural animal predation including hunting, killing and feeding behavior. Images of hunting have been readily distributed through mass market venues such as television; images of killing are less prevalent but are still shown, sometimes with warnings about their strong emotional impact. Images of feeding are much rarer to see because of their shock value; often they can be quite gory. Natural science books often written by the same filmmakers do not hold back in their graphic descriptions of how prey animals are seized, ripped to pieces and eaten alive over the course of several long minutes before they die. On film, those details are usually glossed over with careful framing and editing of the shots, shortening those scenes if they are included at all in order to minimize any sense of the prey's suffering and focusing attention away from the savage butchery, shredding flesh and spilling blood and guts. Take, for example, this short video recently uploaded by the filmmaker Kim Wolhuter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKo_FpHU10
The YouTube video appears to be sped up. The same video is hosted on Wolhuter's own site:
http://www.wildcast.net/2007/09/09/a-re ... ill-video/
He describes how lengthy and savage the scene of a zebra being killed by lions is, and then explains how he deliberately downplays the most horrific details of the assault on the zebra's flesh through judicious editing. While what remains is still quite brutal, what is not seen is that the lions are most likely tearing open the zebra's belly with their teeth and shoving their jaws into the body cavity to devour its vital organs, eating the suffering animal alive from the inside. The video shows none of that, instead focusing on peripheral details.
The rationale is that most audiences do not care to see such horrific scenes but around the fringes of our current culture and throughout history there has always existed some human craving to witness such violence. Being eaten alive by wild beasts is an extremely savage and intimate death, and the spectacle can be thrilling.
Occasionally images of such violence and suffering do get distributed to a wider audience as standards of acceptable content gradually become less restrictive over time. The BBC broadcast a few special episodes of Big Cat Diary in the summer of 2006 titled Big Cat Week Uncut which included harsh, uncensored footage of predatory behavior. More than a year later these episodes have never been rebroadcast or offered commercially. It takes some persistence to seek out similar hard vore content on the web and elsewhere, and this is intended to be a place to share what we have found.
