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Valentine’s Day has had a long and fruitful collaboration with movie horror. Back in 1931, for instance, the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula, arguably the original American horror movie, was nationally released on February 14, as “the story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!” Later came the 1981 slasher movie My Bloody Valentine and its 2009 remake, and the 1982 X-Ray with Barbie Benton (originally titled Be My Valentine, or Else), the 2000 Lover’s Lane and Valentine in 2001. All of these exercises...

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The title character in Dog Man is a man with a dog’s head. The product of improvised emergency surgery after a bomb squad mishap, he serves as a police officer in a generic city called “OK City.” Dog Man’s nemesis is a villainous cat named Petey; their ongoing relationship consists of Dog Man repeatedly capturing Petey, and Petey repeatedly escaping from jail. This goes on agreeably enough until Petey decides to up the ante by cloning himself,...