Good Boy (2025) poster
2025 · horror · supernatural

Good Boy

Directed by Ben Leonberg1h 13m2025
ElsewhereIMDb6.88kRT90%Metacritic63
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.

Our read · Good Boy (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a loyal-dog POV haunted-house film with genuine grief underneath.

ends unsettlingit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 8attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harmjump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if pet peril and terminal illness dread will ruin your evening.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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