Good Boy‘s streaming launch date has now been revealed following the Shudder movie’s spectacular efficiency. Directed by Ben Leonberg, the horror film set a document final month when it turned the streamer’s second-highest-grossing film ever on the field workplace.
After this industrial success, Shudder now confirms that Good Boy will begin streaming on the service beginning Friday, November 21. This comes seven weeks after the movie’s theatrical launch on October 3.
Good Boy takes a singular strategy to the horror style and have become a little bit of a viral sensation due to it. The movie unfolds primarily from the standpoint of a loyal canine as he and his proprietor transfer into a brand new home, which finally ends up being infested with darkish supernatural forces. From the primary trailer, the movie generated buzz on social media as a result of viewers had been anxious that the canine would die.
The success of Good Boy‘s advertising and marketing helped to push the film to $8.5 million worldwide on the field workplace. This implies it is now behind solely Late Night time with the Satan (2023) by way of Shudder film field workplace efficiency. The David Dastmalchian-starring horror film enjoys a big lead at $15.4 million worldwide.
Good Boy wasn’t only a industrial success, although, it was additionally well-received by audiences and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film enjoys a 90% critics’ rating, with the Popcornmeter not far behind at 82%. Main factors of reward embrace the movie’s surprisingly emotional components and subversion of sure horror tropes.
In his Good Boy overview for ScreenRant, Graeme Guttmann awards the movie a rating of six out of 10, highlighting the movie’s ambiance and lovable canine protagonist as main strengths. What holds the movie again, nevertheless, he argues, is an over-reliance on soar scares and an underwritten human lead. Guttmann writes:
Even with its limits, Good Boy is a tremendous movie, one which manages to really feel each experimental and acquainted in a manner that is comforting. It could sound unusual to name a horror film calming in that manner, however even with its ghoulish twists and turns, there may be actual coronary heart on the middle of this movie that makes it a worthwhile watch when it makes its option to screens.
Leonberg’s film arrives amidst a robust yr for Shudder’s film choices. In 2025, the horror-focused streaming service launched titles like The Rule of Jenny Pen, The Ugly Stepsister, V/H/S/Halloween, and Hell Home LLC: Lineage, amongst different titles. In December, Shudder is about to launch Influencers, a sequel to 2022’s Influencer.
With Good Boy now lower than two weeks away from debuting on streaming, it is set to succeed in a a lot wider vary of viewers. It stays to be seen how Shudder subscribers will reply to the distinctive horror film, however the movie already appears poised to be a preferred providing given its optimistic theatrical reception.
- Launch Date
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October 3, 2025
- Runtime
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73 minutes
- Director
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Ben Leonberg
- Writers
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Alex Cannon, Ben Leonberg
