Needful Things (1993)

Animal action scenes are minimal. A waitress at the local diner, Nattie, owns a dog, Raider, who is present in a few scenes. He is seen being walked on his leash, barking, being petted and hugged, and lying on the kitchen floor. In one scene Hugh, one of the townspeople, breaks into Nattie’s house while she is away. Raider barks and meets him at the door. The man tells the dog to sit and then begins to pet him. As he is petting the dog he takes out a pocket knife. When Nattie returns home she is horrorified to find Raider’s dead, skinned body hanging from the light fixture in the closet. This was a fake animal that was made for this film. Hugh never actually takes the knife to the dog. One of the townspeople owns a turkey farm. Turkeys are seen milling about in their pen, being fed, and one turkey is carried by a man.