Good Boy

"Trust his instincts."

2025 1h 13m EN

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 754

Horror

Synopsis

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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.

“Trust his instincts.”

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Cast

Indy
Indy
Shane Jensen
Todd
Arielle Friedman
Vera
Larry Fessenden
Grandpa
Stuart Rudin
Richard
Anya Krawcheck
Doctor
Hunter Goetz
Weatherman / Narrator
Max
Bandit

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ben Leonberg
Writers: Alex Cannon, Ben Leonberg
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 73-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $9M — a 126.4× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released last year.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Ben Leonberg, shot by Wade Grebnoel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Sam Boase-Miller. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Curtis Roberts shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Indy and Shane Jensen and Arielle Friedman carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Ben Leonberg directs. Wade Grebnoel behind the camera. Sam Boase-Miller scores. Curtis Roberts cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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1Tight 73-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $9M — a 126.4× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
4Released last year.
5Directed by Ben Leonberg, shot by Wade Grebnoel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Sam Boase-Miller. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Curtis Roberts shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Indy and Shane Jensen and Arielle Friedman carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Trust his instincts.".
10IMDB entry: tt35521922 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 18 themes, including "supernatural", "human animal relationship", "haunted house", "terminal illness".

The technical file

Cinematography: Wade Grebnoel
Original score: Sam Boase-Miller
Editing: Curtis Roberts
Production design: Alison Diviney
Sound: Brian Goodheart
Runtime: 73 min · 1h 13m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $70,000
Box office: $8,844,724
Return: 12635% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Good Boy (2025)

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Dean2025-10-26
★ 7/10
I loved it. It's a unique movie, and Indy (dog) deserves an Oscar for acting so well in this movie.
Chandler Danier2025-11-06
★ 6/10
I closed my eyes and drifted off a few times during some events that happen in this film. These events happen a lot and it gets repetitive but also allows you to wake up at the crescendo and then continue to watch the dog do stuff. It's a cool dog. The first time the dog whined my dog was very interested in what was going on. By the end of the movie she didn't care at all. We were on the same page.
CinemaSerf2025-11-06
★ 6/10
Maybe if you’re a dog lover you might get more from this. I’m not, so was frankly fairly unimpressed with this cabin in the woods style of spook-fest. It is told with a few overlapping timelines, but quickly we can deduce that “Todd” (Shane Jensen) - whose face we hardly see throughout this seventy minuter - is not a well man. He has moved to his late grandfathers’s rustic home with his loyal dog “Indy” but before long it is the dog that has it’s sixth sense alerted to some seemingly quite malevolent goings-on. Stuck on their own, though, what chance either man or mutt can survive what appears to be something distinctly evil lingering around them? It has it’s moments, but moments are all they are as this really thin story quite literally pads along, slowly, without very much happening. For some reason, this place in the middle of nowhere has what appears to be an industrial-sized graveyard to add to the haunting mystery, but a dodgy generator, a storm and some crackling twigs don’t really get any hairs standing up any more, except maybe on the carpet. To be fair to the dog, it could have been trained by the legendary Rudd Weatherwax and it does all of the heavy barking but otherwise this all a bit of a non-story.