Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1705775-20170901162345/@comment-32931283-20170909011343

I disagree in regards to Cujo - you are letting personal feelings override cold facts : animal or not Cujo was extremely dangerous and merciless.. he killed anything that got in his way.. a villain is not always evil, they need only be a threat to the world or setting.. Cujo was very much a threat : the film and book both depict rabies as a "zombie virus" type disease, making Cujo much more aggressive and murderous than a real rabid animal would be.. thus he is a monster, just like an Infected would be in any other film or book.

it's like how the victims of the Thing are not villains but once the Thing takes over they are extensions of the monster, because all they exist for is to kill and maim.. thus any "humanity" (or in Cujo's case sanity) is gone and they become rampaging monsters.

Cujo may of started as a cute dog but he ended up a slasher-villain nevertheless.