2026 · thriller · drama · mystery
Good Boy
Directed by Jan Komasa1h 50m2026
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
Our read: Good Boy (2026) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- twisty
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