Aint love grand!

This film was so bizarre it was hilarious! Based around actual voice audio recordings of the leader of a horse-love club in America, Zoo relates the events surrounding the prominent death of security-cleared Missile engineer Kenneth Pinyan of a burst colon (work it out!) on a farm one evening a few years ago. Despite everyone knowing who the man was, his work was so classified no one could name him after his death for many years. He loved missiles and he loved horses..

Whilst, despite the circumstances, his death was tragic, this film is more of a comedy listening to obviously very disturbed individuals justifying their interest in zooifilia, yes doing it with horses.

Fortunately we are spared any actual footage of said activity (well there was a tiny glimpse, but you could look away like me), despite the club filling buckets with recorded DVDs and videos of their shenanigans.

Not illegal at the time (quickly made illegal after this case hit the news) the perpetrators are free to act the victim and explain that we all just “don’t get it”.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the film was the female vet who supposedly saved one of the horses from this ill-treatment by promptly having him gelded to stop the horse-lovers coming back for more. I felt nothing but sympathy for the poor beast as it was hardly his fault and couldn’t help but think she was somewhat messed up herself in some kind of man-hating way (but then maybe that’s just those Zoo’s tricking me). The film ends with her riding the castrated animal proudly, almost as bizarre as the animals former “friends”.