{"id":1953297,"date":"2025-08-11T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1953297"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:06:07","slug":"the-best-horror-movie-idea-of-2025-is-all-about-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-best-horror-movie-idea-of-2025-is-all-about-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Horror Movie Idea Of 2025 Is All About A Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Horror as a genre is a lot like comedy: if you have a strong enough premise, you can get away with murder. What surprises me is that we don\u2019t see a lot more modern horror movies going all in on a premise with stylish abandon. There are an infinite number of narrative playsets and gimmicks you can construct in the horror genre that sell an audience on a big idea, and is likely something they haven\u2019t really seen before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Case in point: I am chomping at the bit to see <em>Good Boy<\/em>, an original horror film due this October. Why am I so excited for this movie? Because it\u2019s told from the perspective of a dog.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\"><strong>This Ain\u2019t Homeward Bound<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pet perspectives are nothing new to the cinematic palette. Even the horror genre has experienced some great gems in this vein like the must-read novel <em>Thor<\/em> by Wayne Smith. That got turned into the enjoyable <em>Bad Moon<\/em> but lost the hook of the story: telling it through a dog\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That\u2019s the whole mission statement for <em>Good Boy<\/em>, the feature film debut of director and co-writer Ben Leonberg. Leonberg uses his own dog, Indy, to tell a haunted house story where a loyal pup is trying to warn his master about the malevolent forces only Indy can perceive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leonberg purposefully shot a lot of <em>Good Boy<\/em> at the eye level that would be appropriate for a dog. This isn\u2019t going for some <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/topic\/disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Disney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Disney<\/a> fluff or anything of that nature. <em>Good Boy<\/em> is a horror movie through and through, and that sounds exactly like the kind of thing I want to see coming out of the genre these days.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\"><strong>Make More Weird Ideas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/r7m2EfDT.QETgB2Svy4DYA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/giant_freakin_robot_articles_628\/b811cfc8041571346655cbc21a8f6483\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Good Boy<\/em> doesn\u2019t sound like the oddest idea ever for a horror movie, but then you stop and think, \u201cWhy hasn\u2019t anyone done this before?\u201d Again, there have been offbeat examples in the genre before. For instance, there is the 1989 dark gem <em>Baxter<\/em>, an adaptation of the novel <em>Hell Hound<\/em> by Ken Greenhall. That movie gives the lead dog an interior <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/ent\/best-movie-monologues.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:monologue;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">monologue<\/a> thanks to the book doing so, but <em>Good Boy<\/em> isn\u2019t leaning on such an easy out for its lead character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Indy won\u2019t have any voiceover to tell us his thoughts. Instead, Leonberg was able to get a legitimate performance out of his dog without having to use either narration or CG animation. Everything Indy does in the movie was actually captured on camera. That alone makes it feel special in today\u2019s animation inundation in genre fare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I love that <em>Good Boy<\/em> is a movie sold on such a strong concept. That makes it a touch weird, and weird is very good at getting my attention. Add to all this that audiences love dogs so much in movies that killing one can turn viewers against your movie! Now they are going to follow one around for a whole movie while he escapes paranormal peril? That sounds like a recipe for success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Good Boy<\/em> is getting a limited release this October and is planned to stream on Shudder sometime after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror as a genre is a lot like comedy: if you have a strong enough premise, you can get away with murder. What surprises me is that we don\u2019t see a lot more modern horror movies going all in on a premise with stylish abandon. 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