Good Boy

A supernatural horror film with a dag as the protagonist? Yeah, I have time for that.

Good Boy follows Indy, a dog trying to save his owner from a supernatural presence lurking in his late grandfather’s rural home. The man suffers from chronic lung disease, and the film makes it fairly clear that this presence is death itself, coming to claim him by way of cancer.

There is not a huge amount to say about the plot. What makes the film work is the execution. A setup like this could very easily tip into something forced or silly, but it never does. Indy carries the whole thing without a false note. God knows how many takes it took to get that right. Indy must be one hell of a well-trained dog.