While I could go about saying that furries are a little more complex than you make them out to be, I think it's more important to note that the horror genre is more complex than you point it out to be.
Heck, to me it's not about fetishism or sex. Sure horror plays off a base emotion of survival but it's different than the one of procreation, rather survival. A good horror plays on the fear of the unknown, it doesn't explain the motives behind the phenomenon going on or the phenomenon itself, it leaves you in the dark. Because people fear what they don't know.
My biggest criticism of horror as a genre, going along that line, is playing to the ignorance of the majority of city dwelling society of rural life. While isolationism is always a fear of many, it seems to me a lot of horror films take place outside the city, which is why it's a popular genre for those in the city, because the movie already throws them into an environment they don't know. So they could tell them the 'average redneck farmer' fucks cows and heck, they'd believe it. Oh.. and by fucks cows I actually meant skins the flesh of decent city folks driving through who just seem to always break down on that side road which for some reason they were using instead of an interstate... Stay in the city kids, there be sharks in those rural waters.
Of course I understand the above is kind of my own little tongue in cheek simplification of the genre. I can think of a handful that don't ride the coat-tails of "Children of the Corn". Heck, it's been argued that zombie flicks are sort of the anti-thesis of the above isolationist fear. It instead grows on the fear of feeling overcrowded and surrounded by a resource hungry mass, you know, city living.
As a final note, two of the anonymous comments (Vincent and Timothy) complaining about it being a 'fetish' flick were not furrys. Clearly they are just random people who ran across this article like yourself.
Though what I would agree with is that horror aims for the primal instincts: it's typically not the sexual one, it's more survival mixed with a situation that is foreign. These feelings are something you need more than a few minutes a piece to convey in my mind, so while I never watched this film, it probably has to go for the 'shock scares' instead of the deeper ones which take time to set up.
While I could go about saying that furries are a little more complex than you make them out to be, I think it's more important to note that the horror genre is more complex than you point it out to be.
Heck, to me it's not about fetishism or sex. Sure horror plays off a base emotion of survival but it's different than the one of procreation, rather survival. A good horror plays on the fear of the unknown, it doesn't explain the motives behind the phenomenon going on or the phenomenon itself, it leaves you in the dark. Because people fear what they don't know.
My biggest criticism of horror as a genre, going along that line, is playing to the ignorance of the majority of city dwelling society of rural life. While isolationism is always a fear of many, it seems to me a lot of horror films take place outside the city, which is why it's a popular genre for those in the city, because the movie already throws them into an environment they don't know. So they could tell them the 'average redneck farmer' fucks cows and heck, they'd believe it. Oh.. and by fucks cows I actually meant skins the flesh of decent city folks driving through who just seem to always break down on that side road which for some reason they were using instead of an interstate... Stay in the city kids, there be sharks in those rural waters.
Of course I understand the above is kind of my own little tongue in cheek simplification of the genre. I can think of a handful that don't ride the coat-tails of "Children of the Corn". Heck, it's been argued that zombie flicks are sort of the anti-thesis of the above isolationist fear. It instead grows on the fear of feeling overcrowded and surrounded by a resource hungry mass, you know, city living.
As a final note, two of the anonymous comments (Vincent and Timothy) complaining about it being a 'fetish' flick were not furrys. Clearly they are just random people who ran across this article like yourself.
Though what I would agree with is that horror aims for the primal instincts: it's typically not the sexual one, it's more survival mixed with a situation that is foreign. These feelings are something you need more than a few minutes a piece to convey in my mind, so while I never watched this film, it probably has to go for the 'shock scares' instead of the deeper ones which take time to set up.