Vagrant, The (1992)
Animal Action
In one scene as Graham awakens from another disturbed sleep, he is aware of a foul smell. He descends into the basement searching for the source of the stench and discovers a dead rat lying beside a box of rat poison. This was a fake rat.
In another scene Graham’s neighbor is taking his clothing in from the clothesline. We hear a scream of horror and we see that the man has discovered what is supposed to be his dog, which has been dismembered, hanging on the clothesline. This was a fake prop, not a real animal. The real dog is seen briefly in previous scenes lying down and being petted.
During a scene when Graham is chasing the vagrant through a haunted house in an amusement park, an iguana lands on Graham’s shoulder. The iguana was dropped a very short distance by it’s handler, who was just out of camera range, onto the actor’s shoulder. The animal was never harmed.
In a scene as Graham is preparing to leave for work, he goes into the kitchen and finds a dead fish hanging over the stove. The fish used was a fake rubber fish.
In another scene we see blurred images of stuffed animals hanging on a wall. These were taxidermied animals rented from the Cowtown Museum of Phoenix Arizona.
