The Dog Dies

No need to visit doesthedogdie.com before booking tickets to the pictures in this series, folks! Yessir, it’s a money-back guarantee! And we’re not talking Old Yeller-style mercy killings, friends; none of that here: instead, creative methods of dispatch on display include errant Khaki Scout arrows in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, the dispatch of a Beagle puppy by Russian thugs that unleashes a one-man-army in Chad Stahelski’s John Wick, and the miracle of viscous practical FX that finishes off several very unfortunate sled dogs in John Carpenter’s The Thing. Nothing against Man’s Best Friend, mind you—just remember, per Don Bluth, All Dogs Go to Heaven! It’s just that, well, in these films they get there a little faster.