Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It's Wednesday, October 8th, 2025. Today's going to be a very, very short episode of the show. I'm still out of town as you're listening to this, so we don't have time and the ability to put together a full show, but I did want to give you guys something here. So I'm going to present a conversation that I had with the co-writer, producer, and director of Good Boy, a new horror

movie told from the POV of a dog. And then we're also going to present an interview that Slash

films Danielle Ryan did with Steve Agee, who plays John Economist or Econimos on Peacemaker

Season 2. My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at slashfilm.com. If this is your first episode of the show,

again, this is not what the show normally is like. We typically have several segments. It's a lot

more involved than this. So go back and check out some of our other episodes to get a better idea

of what you can expect on a weekly basis. I should be back next week for a normal episode, fingers crossed.

So in the meantime, I had a chance to speak with Ben Lienberg, who was the co-writer, producer,

and director of Good Boy, which is a movie that is told from the perspective of a dog. I don't

think I've ever seen that done in a horror film or any other genre film before,

quite in this way. I mean, there have been movies where dogs are the main characters,

but the way the camera moves in this one and the blocking and everything, it makes it very,

very clear that the dog is actually the main character here. It's not always a literal

perspective shot from the dog's eyes.

You're not necessarily always seeing what the dog is seeing.

There are several shots where the camera will hover around right behind the dog and several other variations on that.

I found this movie to be incredibly creative.

I value originality over a lot of other aspects

of filmmaking these days because I just see so many movies and so many of them feel samey and

kind of flat. And anytime there's something that comes along that does something really different

and kind of out of pocket, I get excited by it. So

even though Good Boy is probably not going to make my favorite films of the year list or anything

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