What works best about Dog Man is the embrace of the childlike nature at play in its conceit.

Dog head on cop's body: enter DOGMAN!

It is silly and the world around it isn't so different from the storybook comics Lil' Petey makes that have images that can come off as non sequitur pictures of its characters at play.

The news reporter doing the breaking news music herself before she comes on screen is something you might see a child…

For all intents and purposes, IN A VIOLENT NATURE can be seen as a FRIDAY THE 13TH film. I am surly the thousandth person to mention it.

It clearly riffs on the premise, namely a reanimated corpse of a boy (despite having a bulky man's body) seeking revenge impulsively on whomever he comes across all while wearing a rather goofy mask (in both cases, one that is used as protection for widely different professions).

The key conceit here is that…