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Who’s a Scared Boy, Then? - Good Boy review by griggs

Dog-POV horror sounds like a gimmick until you’re watching a trembling retriever patrol a creaking house on your behalf. Good Boy takes the oldest haunted-house cliché – “the dog senses it first” – and runs with it, off the lead and into surprisingly sincere territory. Indy, playing himself, does more with a wary head tilt and a frozen stare at empty doorways than some human leads manage in an entire franchise.

Ben Leonberg keeps things stripped back: a sick owner, an inherited house in the middle of nowhere, and something in the walls that really shouldn’t be there. The best stretches are almost wordless – padding down dark corridors, pricked ears, following sounds we can’t quite place. If you’re at all soft on dogs, the tension has extra bite.

You can feel the budget straining, and the mythology is more hand-waved than house-trained, but at a lean runtime this is a neat little creature feature that mostly sits, stays, and earns its treats.

Unique POV - Good Boy review by AER

Good Boy is elevated by its premise - it's main protagonist is a dog who is accompanying his terminally ill owner to fulfill a ritual at the end of their life. It's a bold premise and the dog is amazing. The film is low budget and the SFX and slightly wooden acting by the main human let the side down. However, the dog wins you over and if you can see past the dodgy bogey men, there's some thoughtfulness in the mix. Well done Indy. Good Boy, indeed! :)