Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Now, other people seem to find this to be a GREAT film, a MASTERPIECE, but I don't necessarily find it to be either of those things. That doesn't mean I found it to be bad, it was a quite interesting documentary short, that did genuinely disturbed me.It is a very simple premise, it is just footage that was shot inside a slaughterhouse, with some narration. It is very fascinating, although highly unsettling, although it didn't really change my life. As I said, I was highly disturbed throughout the film, and for a good purpose, but it didn't make me become a vegetarian or a vegan. I guess at this point I'll never become a vegetarian/vegan.However, just because I'm not a vegetarian/vegan doesn't mean that it won't make YOU possibly think of becoming one! I can fully understand why someone would be affected by the horrific imagery in this documentary film would start thinking way more about what they eat and how it's made.

Everyone who wants to see the brutal reality of a slaughterhouse, at least circa 1949 in Paris, should be open to seeing this film. Although some people seem to have come away thinking this is was an anti-meat movie, that is only their point of view. Yes, you see horrific images of horses, cows and sheep butchered. It will likely turn your stomach. But I doubt this documentary was made with the intention of turning people off meat.The director focuses on the people too: the man whose own leg had to be cut off after an accident, for example. And it is clear that this business is just a job to many of the workers, and there is no moralizing about it.It is difficult to watch. But it is the truth (I guess); and really, if you think about it, the animals in this film are arguably treated better (killed quickly) than in that recent undercover PETA video of downer cows.

Le Sang des Bêtes is Georges Franju's second film, a grotesque 20 minute documentary detailing a normal day in a Parisian slaughterhouse. This has seriously gotta be some of the most repulsive imagery I've EVER seen captured on film - horses, sheep and cows all casually (and in extreme graphic detail) eviscerated, disemboweled and literally turned inside-out by jolly, whistling butchers.First off we see a gorgeous white stallion brought in and swiftly dispatched via a bolt-pistol to the forehead, then a peg-legged butcher cuts its throat and steaming blood gushes out in waves. As its hooves are being hacked off a narrator nonchalantly explains how they'll probably be used for "women's toiletries". Next up are the cows - no bolt-pistol for them, they just get immediately decapitated then have their limbs sawn off. Even then, the cow's torso still violently convulses. We then see a matronly woman slice open the torso's belly and manually empty its overflowing bowels into the concrete guttering that surrounds the work floor.Intercut with the slaughterhouse scenes is footage of the surrounding areas - seemingly the slums of Paris - which is narrated by a woman. About mid-way through a suitable quote from the poet Charles Baudelaire appears on screen: ''I shall strike you without anger And without hate, like a butcher'' The final slaughterhouse segment focuses on sheep, this section has some of the most surreal visuals - namely a long line of limbless / headless sheep all convulsing at once, like some kinda spastic chorus line. Wow, this is unforgettable - yet undeniably repellent - cinema indeed! 9/10

In the periphery of Paris, the fate of horses, cows and other animals in a slaughterhouse is detailed in this short documentary. My first comment about this disgusting short is that fortunately it is not in color. I believe that there are two possible views of this short: technically, my opinion is that it is perfect. The shootings of Paris, the cinematography, the camera, the skill of the workers, in this regard everything is perfectly shown. However, the theme is simply awful and of a completely bad taste. I do not know if George Franju was vegetarian, but probably his intention showing the slaughter of animals, inclusive of an offspring, was to make the viewers become vegetarian. I believe most of the pseudo-intellectual readers will not like my review, but that was my impression of this documentary. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "O Sangue das Bestas" ("The Blood of the Beasts")