Dog steals the show in Good Boy, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is pure hokum

The story: Notwithstanding their language barrier, a dog endeavours to protect his human owner from a malign supernatural presence in their home.

- Whang Yee Ling

And the Academy Award for best actor goes to... Indy.

Never heard of him? That is because the American indie horror Good Boy is the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever's screen debut, playing the canine companion of Todd (Shane Jensen).

The latter is in the throes of a chronic illness and retreats from New York City into seclusion at his late grandfather's uninhabited, possibly cursed, woodlands cabin.