Earlier this week, IFC released the trailer for\u00a0Good Boy, Ben Leonberg\u2019s new horror film sporting an instantly-grabs-you premise: Watching a haunted house movie play out, not from the perspective of the doomed humans, but from the loyal dog desperate to protect his person. Buoyed by an undeniably \u201cWho\u2019s a sweet boy? He is!\u201d appearance from Leonberg\u2019s own dog Indy in the title role, the trailer is genuinely unnerving, as we watch a hero stripped of so many tools available to the typical horror protagonist face off against the unknown. In fact, the trailer has been so\u00a0compelling\u2014having already picked up more than a million views on YouTube in just four days of release\u2014that it\u2019s altering IFC\u2019s release approach for the film, which will now bump the movie up from a limited release to a much wider one.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s per\u00a0Indiewire<\/a>, quoting IFC Entertainment Group head Scott Shooman, who didn\u2019t specify how many more screens the movie would be on, but made it clear that the online response to the film has helped change its trajectory. \u201cWe\u2019re a bespoke company and we really pay attention to what people want to see,\u201d Shooman said, while emphasizing that the studio (which is distributing the movie through Shudder) is really hoping people will come out for the movie\u2019s October 3 release. (The film will\u00a0eventually be on streaming, if you\u2019re one of those people who can hold out on finding out whether the very cute Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever makes it out of this thing with a happy ending, but Shooman wouldn\u2019t say when.)<\/p>\n Good Boy had good buzz surrounding it even before the trailer dropped, having won over critics at SXSW and other festivals earlier this year. (Our own Matt Schimkowitz caught the film at the Overlook Film Festival back in April<\/a>, calling the 75-minute film a \u201ctechnical marvel\u201d that finds \u201cremarkable depth\u201d in its unique perspective.)<\/p>\n The fantastic Good Boy sniffs out the ghosts of the 2025 Overlook Film Festival<\/a>Stephen Colbert puts Paul Rudd through his paces before naming him America’s sexiest good boy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, IFC released the trailer for\u00a0Good Boy, Ben Leonberg\u2019s new horror film sporting an instantly-grabs-you premise:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-91743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}