The horror movie Good Boy is receiving a wide theatrical release.The film, which explores a haunted house from a dog’s perspective, was originally intended to get a limited release.The trailer for Good Boy garnered over 1 million views and prompted concern for the canine main character’s safety.<\/p>\n
An independent horror movie is fetching an expanded release.\n<\/p>\n
Good Boy, a haunted house film told from the perspective of a dog, will now receive a wide release from IFC. The company previously planned to only exhibit the film theatrically in a limited release.\n<\/p>\n
Indy in ‘Good Boy’.<\/p>\n
Courtesy of Independent Film Company and Shudder<\/p>\n
The news comes in the wake of the first trailer for the movie barking up over 1 million views on YouTube within four days.\n<\/p>\n
Good Boy stars Indy, the real-life pet of writer-director Ben Leonberg, as a dog (also named Indy) who tries to warn his owner (Shane Jensen) of evil supernatural forces encroaching on their rural farmhouse.\n<\/p>\n
The film premiered at SXSW in March to rave reviews, and currently holds a 95 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> with 20 reviews as of publication.\n<\/p>\n The viral trailer for the movie spawned immediate widespread concern for Indy’s well-being, as Google searches for prompts like “does the dog in Good Boy die” jumped by over 2,000 percent, according to IndieWire.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The trailer for Good Boy, which can be viewed above, begins with heartwarming archival footage of Indy playing with his owner.\n<\/p>\n “Man’s best friend,” text on the screen reads. “Always by your side.”\n<\/p>\n The preview then takes a menacing turn. “Through the good times\/And\u2026” the text continues before transitioning to spooky nighttime footage of Indy investigating a mysterious thumping sound. The dog heads down the stairs to find a man groggily slamming his head into a door.\n<\/p>\n Indy in ‘Good Boy’.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Independent Film Company and Shudder<\/p>\n From there, most of the trailer consists of rapid-fire flashes of unsettling imagery, including a man yelling with blood dripping from his mouth, muddy human footsteps on a hardwood floor, blood rinsing down a bathtub drain, and a distressed shriek from Indy.\n<\/p>\n The trailer ends with the canine protagonist watching a videotape of a man seemingly accepting his untimely fate.\n<\/p>\n “I guess I’m next,” he says. “I should never have come here.”\n<\/p>\n A threatening figure then emerges in the background behind Indy.\n<\/p>\n The official poster for ‘Good Boy’.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Independent Film Company and Shudder<\/p>\n Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly’s<\/a> free newsletter<\/a> to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.\n<\/p>\n Good Boy also stars Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Anya Krawcheck, and Stuart Rudin. The film hits theaters on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The horror movie Good Boy is receiving a wide theatrical release.The film, which explores a haunted house from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-92168","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\/92168","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=92168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}