What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.