‘Good Boy’ Review: Stephen Graham Steals The Show In A Creepily Funny Kidnap Horror

In all its glorious oddness, Good Boy recalls a particular boom time in British exploitation cinema for horror films that weren’t necessarily horror films, movies with titles like Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly ; What the Peeper Saw ; and almost anything by Peter Walker. The latter’s House of Whipcord would be a useful reference when describing Jan Komasa ’s thoroughly entertaining debut, since it’s a similarly dark and acerbic comedy about moral rectitude, Walker’s film being the story of a young “loose” woman falling into the clutches of a deranged former judge and his wife, who live in a private prison.

In Komasa’s case, the victim is male: Tommy (Anson Boon), a disruptive internet influencer whose TikToks advocate violence and recklessness. Tommy walks the talk, and film’s op