Good Boy (2026)

Movie · 2026 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 1h 50m · English

Curator score: 3.0/10 (227.8K ratings)

Some people only learn the hard way.

Overview

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.

Ratings

Director

Jan Komasa

Production

Recorded Picture Company, Skopia Film, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Venatu Capital, CANAL+ Polska, TVN Warner Bros. Discovery

Cast

Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon, Kit Rakusen, Monika Frajczyk, Savannah Steyn, Mila Jankowska, Callum Booth-Ford, Noah Valentine, Noah Manzoor, Maciej Stępniak, Jessica Johnson, Austin Haynes, Helena Calvert, Jessica Polak, Katarzyna Adamczyk, Bazyli Mach, Adam Bilewicz, Hanna Koczewska, Agata Zataj

Curator Review

Verdict

A grim, off-kilter captivity thriller with social bite and a strong cast, Good Boy sounds more interesting for its atmosphere and moral unease than for straightforward suspense. The setup suggests a nasty, unpredictable descent into psychological horror and class tension, but it may also be too abrasive and deliberately strange for viewers wanting a clean genre payoff.

Best for

  • Viewers who like bleak psychological thrillers with a twisted sense of humor
  • Fans of home-invasion or captivity stories that turn surreal
  • Audiences drawn to British social realism filtered through genre
  • People who enjoy volatile antiheroes and morally nasty characters

Skip if

  • You want a conventional thriller with clear rules and a tidy ending
  • You are sensitive to violence, confinement, or psychological cruelty
  • You prefer likable protagonists or emotionally warm storytelling
  • You dislike films that lean weird, ambiguous, or aggressively unsettling

Overview

Good Boy looks built to make the audience feel trapped right alongside its protagonist. The premise is simple enough — a reckless young man wakes up imprisoned in a remote house — but the promise here is in the tonal shift: a captivity story that seems to slide from crime-thriller mechanics into something stranger and more psychologically corrosive.

Worth noting

Jan Komasa’s work often carries a sharp sense of social pressure and moral collapse, and that fits this material well. With Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough in the mix, the film likely has the acting firepower to make its odd family dynamic feel both grounded and deeply unnerving.

Bottom line

The main question is whether its eccentricity pays off or becomes self-defeating. For viewers who like their thrillers nasty, ambiguous, and a little deranged, that’s part of the appeal. For everyone else, it may feel like a punishing exercise in dread rather than a satisfying mystery.

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Topics

psychological thriller, captivity, british drama, dark mystery, bleak tone, violent, surreal, family horror, social tension, crime

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