Shudder Snags Shaggy Dog Tale

AMC+ has snapped up acclaimed horror movie Good Boy for this month’s Shudder slate.

About a golden retriever with a sixth sense that tries to save his master from the evil of a house possessed, Variety said it “reflects the powerful connection between people and their pets as few films have, ultimately devastating us with the devotion these soulmates are capable of showing.”

Rolling Stone quipped, “Stick with this pup if you’re looking for horror with heart this Halloween and beyond,” while Empire called it “a highly effective indie horror that overcomes the familiarity of its scares with the brilliantly executed novelty of its canine conceit”.

Good Boy premieres on November 21; here’s the trailer.

In other streaming news:

• Prime Video will stream the second season of The Night Manager from January 11, when the first three of six episodes will drop (view teaser trailer)
• Disney+ will premiere S3 of Tell Me Lies on January 13
• Netflix will stretch S5 of Stranger Things across three premiere dates: Volume 1 on November 27 (4 eps), vol. 2 on Box Day (3 eps) and the series finale on New Year’s Day (each volume releases 2pm NZ time) — view the first five minutes of ep 1 here
• S2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will stream on Disney+ from December 10 with a double-episode premiere (view trailer)
• Apple TV will launch S2 of the Jennifer Garner thriller, The Last Thing He Told Me, on February 20
• Here’s the trailer for the November 26 debut of Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, which explores the Pleistocene era “millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, as it has never been seen before” — including armadillos bigger than cars and tiny elephant relatives preyed upon by giant storks.