After his a call with his ex, Jimmy find out the dog is missing. But things quickly turn strange when reality takes on a new color and his dog is not what it appears to be.
WRITTEN BY EMMANUIL MORARI
DIRECTED BY FOUND FORMAT
WHO'S A GOOD BOY?
The impetus for this film was spurred on by the “Jakub Owens Horror Film Short Film Contest.” With less than a week to come up with the concept, write the script and start production - things moved quickly. The concept gelled around the horror of having one of the things you trust most in the world, your dog, becoming a terror - a monster.
We wanted to add this sci-fi element that would permeate the film, where the dog was simply an extension of greater horror monster - like the light of an angler fish.
We viewed the house itself, as an inter-dimensional creature that slowly lures it’s victims in by something familiar and then feeds.
To visually represent the house creature we knew that cinematography had to play an important part - it’s the main reason we decided to film in B&W as the house creature pulls him into the new dimension. That’s why we see that transition from color to the lifeless black.
It was about the terror of becoming caged yourself. That was the house, a giant cage. It’s only when Jimmy sees his ex in the mirror, in the normal color dimension, does the terror seep in at an existential level. Having the leash on him at the end was simply an extension of that horror. A fish caught on a hook.
Sound was another crucial element that helped bring the atmosphere to life, like the cinematography, it had to permeate through the entire experience. Allowing us as the audience to be enveloped in that house with Jimmy.
Our conclusion came about when we discussed what would be the most terrifying aspect of a device like dog ownership and we came to the realization, that it really wasn’t even about the dog.
