10 Movies That Abused Animal Rights During Production

9. Oldboy Had Live Animals Eaten On Set

Yup. It's exactly what it looks like. That's a man eating a live octopus right there. An abhorrent, slobbering photographic still of a scene from Park Chan-wook's Oldboy: a South Korean drama released back in 2003 (and recently remade in 2013 with Gary Oldman in the lead role). Oldboy isn't thought of too kindly among animal rights groups due to this particular sequence. Indeed, devouring wriggling sea creatures is hardly the most humane activity to conduct on screen. Some might argue that stuffing a slimy octopus into your mouth is grotesque enough, but the fact that the poor thing was alive during filming is a little off-colour to say the least. If that wasn't enough to turn your stomach, consider the fact that director Chan-wook didn't get the right shot until the seventh take, meaning that actor Choi Min-sik conducted the scene seven times, and gobbled seven live octopi as a result.