User:Chad The Gman/sandbox/Furry Nights

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Furry Nights is a 2016 British-American independent horror film directed, produced, written, and acted by J. Zachary Thurman.

IMDb version
What begins as a carefree weekend for a group of camping teens soon takes a tragic turn when one of the campers shoots a grizzly bear. When the other furries realize what has happened, they will stop at nothing to make the teens pay.

Mubi version
When a group of teenagers ventures into the woods, they stumble upon a group of Furries. Accidentally mistaking one for a real animal leads to a tragic accident. The Furries, led by the brutal Mr. Fox, launch an all-out assault on the youths.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The concept of making furries (or rather self-proclaimed furries, given the film portrayal here) as a one-dimensional antagonistic group (consisting of six) is nonsensical and offensive to furries. When not all furries aren't too sexually psychic nor devote their subcultural identity like religion or ideology of sorts.
 * 2) *The fursuits are predominantly the same animal costumes, we saw when furries were imagined from the 2000s to early 2010s by mostly ignorant mainstream media, while "Mr. Fox" and the unnamed Poodie 'furry' member is wearing generic but pseudo-fursuit masks from the mid to late 2010s, you could buy from any auction websites when the film produces.
 * 3) *Also for some reason, all of these self-proclaimed 'furries' have supernaturally real animal powers? Given that, they really make real animals sounds.
 * 4) Similarly like with Mother! and Escape from Tomorrow, the main problem with the film is that it has little to no reason to exist, especially when the anti-furry sentiment in the western world dies down in the mainstream (and lesser extent internet) level(s) when the time of the film released. What was the whole point of the film? Is director J. Thurman has any problems with furries in general, but judging by his personality as based on his film screenings, is very probably not? Is he trying to shape up the furry fandom to be more mainstream if they don't reform themselves before becoming like ones in his film; even though they're doing it right now in the past few years after this movie is released? Or does he try to make ridicule the extreme members of their fandom like the 'Furry lifestylers' or their fetish types??? The point of this film remains a mystery, leaving a mostly nonsensical tale passed on as a movie.
 * 5) The in-story film that the crew making was never fully specified enough, except other than being a spoof of Creature from the Black Lagoon.
 * 6) Film crew (especially Mark) and furry's leader Mr. Fox are both majorly or completely unlikeable. As both, refused to apologize for what did both of their groups, except for the climax sorta. But mostly Mark, because over he accidentally kills their Bear 'furry' member, which started this nightmare in the first place.
 * 7) The film's genre has a hard time if wants to be a campy horror-comedy or a played straight horror with few slasher and unnecessary dramatic elements. As well the marketing helped neither these issues. This resulted in clashing each other with a couple to no payoff.
 * 8) The film's lens is so dark, there are few times that we don't know what your characters are doing.
 * 9) Locations throughout the film feel inconsistent, as the two-thirds take place in the presumed park's lake, and then abruptly switch into an abandoned farmhouse for some reason nor any hint was there, as next door to the presumed park.
 * 10) Most of the film is neither scary nor funny, but is rather very boring for an indie horror film?
 * 11) The film tirely parodies the "Found footage" genre much as Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, or REC, however, it ends up falling flat and forgotten after when they left the presumed park to that abandoned farmhouse.
 * 12) In one of the scenes, when one of the crew tries to call the police, it reveals that the female police operator is religiously furry, and then hangs up on when these self-proclaimed 'furries' try to kill them. This will not only bring the fandom into shame, by dare associating with that group but this will implicate losing her job, as her job is supposed to help the caller who is in a crime scene, regardless the attacker is a furry or not.
 * 13) False Advertising: For one of the two posters, assumed the Kangaroo 'furry' member who later reveals the fursona's name is "Kangaroo Jack" (not confused with the film nor character with the same name), is the film's main antagonist, due of being the only 'furry' drawn in half of the appearance to be that, and being center in the film's poster. But really the real main antagonist is actually Mr. Fox, which is below Kangaroo Jack in live-action and the far upper right in a half-drawn form. And eventually worn by Mark, as means to recuse the remaining crew member from Mr. Fox. Who regardlessly end up getting killed in the process.
 * 14) *The plot description (with some alternations) is misleading as your protagonistic group as teenagers on a camping trip when really they're just late teen or young adult film crew who were doing principal photography for their unnamed horror film, who are using the park's lake for a good place for their swimming scenes.
 * 15) When speaking with the original poster, half of it has looks ugly and drawn unfinished, as when the second poster was created, they only used the live-action shot with Mr. Fox and the other two (unnamed Poodie and Bunny) 'furries' with it.
 * 16) *Also their other poster shows didn't improve either, as they badly edited their 'furry' masks from the film itself to their silhouettes of the three 'furries', and the bunny mask looks different (mostly the ears) when compared to the previous poster's live-action shot.
 * 17) An romantic confession from one of the two crew in the farmhouse scene just comes out of nowhere as we have never shown these couple any slight foreshadowing of chemistry between these two crew staff, prior to the scene, and regardless rejected by the female crew member, before being killed by Mr. Fox.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) While the film has actually offended some furries, others won't mind it, for its campiness.
 * 2) Despite the film having many problems, J. Zachary Thurman has passioned with his works, including this film as his art.
 * 3) The Gill-man costume for the crew's movie looks truly scary in some good way, for an independent film.
 * 4) Three out of the four-film crew have passable acting.

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Trailer and Full Film
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