# Good Boy dog-perspective trailer

> A dog-perspective horror trailer reached 2.2 million YouTube views in a week.

- Owner: Independent Film Company and Shudder
- Kind: Film
- Sector: Entertainment
- Seed date: 2025-08-18
- Milestone date: 2025-08-26
- Date basis: Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak.
- Spread Score: 25 (Niche), v1.3
- Mechanics: Press loop, Platform jump

## Summary

IFC released a dog-perspective horror trailer on August 18, 2025. Reports of millions of views accompanied a shift from limited to wide release. The film opened to $2.34 million domestically.

## Timeline

- Mar 2025 — SXSW (Box office) — Good Boy premiered at SXSW in March before its trailer appeared.
- 2025-08-18 — Independent Film Company (YouTube) — IFC published the first trailer, showing a haunted house from a dog’s perspective.
- 2025-08-23 — TheWrap (Press) — TheWrap reported that IFC expanded the release from limited to wide after the trailer response.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/mcp#api).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/good-boy-trailer-2025

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Good Boy dog-perspective trailer.” Case HIS-01828. Spread Score v1.3: 25/100. Updated 2026-10-28. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-01828