Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
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.
Good Boy (2025) earns genuine novelty points for its wholly distinctive conceit: a found-footage supernatural horror film shot entirely from a dog's POV, making the animal the protagonist and emotional anchor rather than a human. This is a genuinely singular execution rarely attempted at feature length. The plot is serviceable — a haunted rural home, a cursed family, a sick owner — but leans on familiar haunted-house beats outside of its canine framing device. Acting is uneven, with human performances feeling stilted in the limited screen time they occupy (partly a structural consequence of the POV gimmick). Cinematography is functional and occasionally effective in translating a dog's-eye view into atmospheric dread, though the low-budget found-footage aesthetic limits ambition. The ending underwhelms, failing to resolve the emotional and supernatural threads with sufficient payoff, leaving the film's strong central premise without a satisfying conclusion.