Indy the Dog Is the Star of ‘Good Boy,’ and His Most Important Co-Stars Aren’t Even Human

Does the Dog Die in ‘Good Boy’? Writer-Director Ben Leonberg Answers All Our Burning Questions

Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, gives one of the all-time great canine performances in his screen debut. His secret? “He has no idea he's in a movie,” Leonberg tells GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe.

Indy the Dog Is the Star of ‘Good Boy,’ and His Most Important Co-Stars Aren’t Even Human

When a film professor wants to haunt their students, they assign “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form.” But when a film professor wants to demonstrate the fundamentals of what film editing can achieve and the particular power the cut has over audiences, it will be hard to top director Ben Leonberg’s “Good Boy,” a haunted house horror film told from the perspective of a dog — specifically Leonberg’s own dog, Indy.  Working often on just one shot pe…

Good Boy – Film Review

Some ideas are so brilliant that they encourage a sort of mental double-take.  The reaction where you are instantly sold by the million-dollar pitch, yet also amazed nobody else had already tried to do it before now.  Good Boy, the debut feature by director/co-writer Ben Leonberg, has one such million-dollar pitch: a supernatural horror film where the protagonist is the hauntee’s loyal dog.  Not a talking dog, not some kind of human whose spirit…

Good Boy (Grimmfest 2025) review

By Dave Hastings It’s truly humbling to hear that when the initial trailer came out for Good Boy, the first question from a worried internet, was wanting to know whether our canine protagonist, Indy, would survive whatever horrors the story would try and inflict on its audiences as well as him. And while it is no spoiler now that he does indeed survive (trust me, as a dog dad myself, I was relieved too), it still doesn’t halt Good Boy in having …