{"id":143320,"date":"2025-10-24T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143320\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:11:08","slug":"haunted-house-movie-told-from-the-dogs-perspective-has-received-a-digital-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143320\/","title":{"rendered":"haunted house movie told from the dog\u2019s perspective has received a digital release"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, the\u00a0Shudder<\/a>\u00a0streaming service has acquired the U.S, Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand distribution rights to the supernatural thriller\u00a0Good Boy, a haunted house story with a unique approach: it\u2019s told from the perspective of the family dog! Shudder teamed up with Independent Film Company to give the film a wide theatrical release on\u00a0October 3rd. Initially, the movie was only supposed to get a limited release, but the trailer has become extremely popular, so the studio is going wide, thinking it could be their biggest hit since\u00a0Late Night with the Devil, which made over $10 million domestically. Good Boy hasn\u2019t reached that number yet, it just recently passed the $6 million mark \u2013 but now, it\u2019s likely to draw in some more money from viewers watching from the comfort of their own homes, as it has received a digital release just in time for Halloween! It\u2019s available for rent or purchase on Amazon at THIS LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

JoBlo\u2019s own Tyler Nichols gave Good Boy a 7\/10 review that you can read HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Directed by Ben Leonberg, who wrote the screenplay with Alex Cannon,\u00a0Good Boy\u00a0stars Leonberg\u2019s own dog, Indy,\u00a0who finds himself on a new adventure with his human owner \u2014 and best friend \u2014 Todd, leaving city life for a long-vacant family home in the country. From the start, two things are abundantly clear: Indy is wary of the creepy old house, and his affection for Todd is unwavering.\u00a0Indy\u2019s new world is immediately filled with unease: he senses invisible presences, follows phantom tracks, receives chilling warnings from a ghostly dog, and is haunted by glimpses of the previous resident\u2019s gruesome demise. When a dark influence begins to grip Todd, Indy must fight a malevolence intent on pulling him into the afterlife.\u00a0The human cast includes Larry Fessenden (Blackout<\/a>) and Stuart Rudin (The Silence of the Lambs).\u00a0Click HERE<\/a> to check out our interview with Leonberg and Indy.<\/p>\n

Amy Beecroft, the head of Verve Ventures, negotiated the distribution deal on behalf of the filmmakers. Beecroft told\u00a0Deadline<\/a>, \u201cWe immediately recognized the immense potential of Leonberg\u2019s debut and are thrilled to strike this deal with\u00a0Shudder<\/a>.\u201d Emily Gotto, the SVP of Acquisitions and Production for Shudder, represented the streaming service in the deal negotiations. Gotto said, \u201cBen Leonberg\u2019s debut is a singular experience in perspective-driven horror. Told entirely through the eyes of Indy, a devoted dog whose terror and determination to save his human become our own, the film delivers a haunting and emotional experience that introduces a surprising standout performance from Indy and a strikingly assured first feature from Leonberg.\u201c<\/p>\n

The Deadline article noted that \u201cLeonberg and his wife Kari Fischer, who also produced the film, adapted their own home and acted as stand ins for three years to accommodate Indy\u2019s production schedule. In all, production with Indy took 400 days and a whole lot of patience, as he is not a trained animal actor. The result, however taxing it may have been to achieve, is an incredibly realistic and haunting portrayal of a dog\u2019s reaction to his house taking on a life of its own.\u201d A press release gives more information on the film\u2019s star: \u201cIndy is a middle-aged, 35-pound retriever who has no idea that he\u2019s a movie star. His favorite things are fetch, food, and his humans, Ben & Kari\u2014in that order. His special talents include finding tennis balls and staring deep into your soul the moment before you fill his dinner bowl.\u00a0Good Boy\u00a0is Indy\u2019s feature debut following his break-out role in the short film of the same name.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film has been rated PG-13 for terror, bloody images and strong language.<\/p>\n

Will you be watching Good Boy now that it has been given a digital release? Let us know by leaving a comment below \u2013 and if you caught the movie on the big screen, let us know what you thought of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A while back, the\u00a0Shudder\u00a0streaming service has acquired the U.S, Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand distribution rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[74442,74443,18,117,84765,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-143320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aith","9":"tag-arrow-in-the-head","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-good-boy-2025","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115430731445766886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}