Film Brain takes a look at a rather strange little Norwegian thriller where a Tinder relationship ends up going to the dogs.
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00:00 Out in the US and the UK is darkly comic Norwegian horror thriller Good Boy, not to be confused
00:05 with a talking dog movie from 20 years ago.
00:07 Student Sigrid meets millionaire heir Christian on Tinder, and their date goes well, but Christian
00:13 has a secret - he lives with Frank, a man who dresses and behaves like a dog.
00:18 Things take a dark turn on a weekend getaway to a cabin.
00:22 It's a very odd premise which to me feels like it started off life as a jokey riff on
00:26 the Fifty Shades films, especially with the name Christian, and there's definitely some
00:30 wry humour in seeing someone in the dog outfit, although it does start off a little bit slower
00:34 than you might expect for a movie that's only 76 minutes long.
00:38 It's around the halfway mark where it turns from discomfortingly funny to being disturbing,
00:42 and it ramps up the tension well, but it never goes as weird or as wild with the premise
00:46 as you might expect.
00:48 I always expect it to ramp up to an extreme, and it kind of feels a bit underdeveloped.
00:54 That being said, the final shots of the movie is appropriately shocking.
00:58 Woof, indeed.