“The smartly titled Live Animals is a cut above.  Like early Wes Craven and John Carpenter, Benson's film rams full-tilt into an often gory but strangely logical world where human beings are bartered like cattle. A sharp, well-edited film, Live Animals should finally give the Memphis filmmaker his big break. Film world, let me be one of many to introduce Jeremy Benson!” --Jonathan Hickman, Einsiders.com

“As a sadistic modern slave-trader, veteran actor John Still is a convincingly scary movie menace.”“Twisted!  Reminiscent of such 1970s horror films as ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ ... and such modern thrillers as ‘Saw’ and ‘Hostel’...” --The Commercial Appeal