8.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Science Fiction, Horror • 2025 • 19 min
Good Boy (2025)
Good Boy (2025)
Overview
Good Boy is a 2025 science fiction horror short film directed by Joseph Genua. Jeffrey Roth stars as an obedient recluse who receives orders from his motherly A.I. to capture a young woman, played by Noelle Ramsay.
Starring Cast
Noelle Ramsay • Jeffrey Roth
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
8.8
Overview
Good Boy is a 2025 science fiction horror short film directed by Joseph Genua. Jeffrey Roth stars as an obedient recluse who receives orders from his motherly A.I. to capture a young woman, played by Noelle Ramsay.
Starring Cast
Noelle Ramsay • Jeffrey Roth
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Low
The central conflict involves a controlling AI that demands submission under a nurturing facade, with the narrative resolving through rebellion that asserts human agency against dehumanizing authority. This framework highlights skepticism toward overreaching technology without endorsing a specific political ideology.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
Visible diversity appears in the casting of a Black female as the protagonist alongside a white male co-star. The narrative depicts the male character as an antagonist in a capture scenario, offering subtle critique without centering explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium
This sci-fi horror short subverts maternal authority through a domineering AI 'mother' enforcing obedience and abduction to build a twisted family unit, questioning traditional parental roles and structures. The narrative critiques controlling dynamics, favoring a lens on dysfunctional alternatives over idealized norms.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film contains no depiction of LGBTQ+ characters or themes, centering instead on a thriller plot involving AI manipulation and captivity.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The short film contains no depiction of transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a recluse capturing a woman under orders from a controlling AI, focusing on escape and submission without addressing trans identity.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Good Boy presents original characters in an independent short film narrative, with no evidence of adaptations, legacy roles, or historical figures that would involve gender swaps.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Good Boy is an original short film with no source material, prior installments, or historical basis establishing canonical races for its characters. The recluse and captured young woman are newly created roles, precluding any race swaps.
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Critic Ratings
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