N.J. director’s ‘Good Boy,’ a new horror movie with loads of hype, stars his own dog

The dog stares into a dark corner.

On the surface, it looks like nothing’s there, but something isn’t right.

The whole house seems as if it is quaking with an undefinable dread.

And like most dogs, Indy, a bright-eyed Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever , can sense things many people can’t.

But he’s not just “the dog.”

He’s the protagonist in “ Good Boy ,” a new horror film told from the dog’s point of view.

Indy is the real-life dog of director Ben Leonberg , who filmed the movie, which opens in theaters Friday, over the course of three years in a woodsy New Jersey home.

“I did not think he was gonna be the movie star he turned out to be,” Leonberg tells NJ Advance Media.

The Indy-centric trailer for the film (watch below) has been seen millions of times since its release in