The Plague Dogs/YMMV

• Misaimed Marketing: The film features a cheerful cover of cute dogs featuring the tagline "Escape to A Different World... And Share The Adventure Of A Lifetime!" It's also considered to be Grave of the Fireflies with dogs.
  • "A SPECIAL KIND OF MOVIE MAGIC from the CREATORS OF WATERSHIP DOWN"
• Nightmare Fuel: Both the novel and the movie are rife with it, but the movie's deleted scene with the mangled and eaten corpse of the Bounty Hunter is probably the worst.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: More explicitly than most -- the book seems about to end with the dogs drowning at sea. The Reader protests and cries out for the Author to spare them, claiming that Real Life would end badly but this isn't Real Life. One Deus Ex Machina later, the dogs are saved.
• What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: The Animated Adaptation of Watership Down is actually tame and kid-friendly in comparison to The Plague Dogs. The dogs have visible genitals, there's a very clear Downer Ending and there's a scene where a man gets his head blown off and the protagonist is spattered in his blood. There's even a deleted scene that implies that the corpse of a man who fell down a cliff was eaten by the two protagonists.
• The Woobie: Rowf, Snitter.