When It’s Humans Who Are Hunted – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (featuring Pleatherface) and Other Animal Liberation Movies

Sunday, 4 October 2026 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Photo of Julia, Nick, Stephen and Cassie

We discuss the animal liberation themes in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Charlotte’s Web, War Horse and Bold Native. Cassie, Stephen, Julia and Nick are discussing animal liberation movies in light of the upcoming Animal Liberation Film Festival. This festival is being held from 6-8 November in Melbourne – at Cinema Nova in Carlton. For more information on the festival, see: https://alff.org.au/

 

 We also encourage listeners to check out the 2026 International Association of Vegan Sociologists conference. Recordings of the talks will be available on this website soon and there are recordings of talks from previous conferences available now: https://www.vegansociology.com/conference/

 

 Previous Freedom of Species shows referred to:

 Horror Movies and Challenging the Human/Animal Dichotomy – 28 August 2022: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/horror-movies-and-challenging-humananimal-dichotomy

 The Dying Trade film chat, 19 July 2026: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/dying-trade-film-chat

 

 Music:

 Animal Liberation by Los Fastidios.

 Animal by Def Leppard.

 Sadie by Joanna Newsom.

 War Pigs by Black Sabbath.