Overview

• The film opened wide in the U.S. on Oct. 3 via IFC Films and Shudder, with the U.K. theatrical debut set for Oct. 10.
• Ben Leonberg says the finale is purposefully open to both a haunting interpretation and a non-supernatural reading rooted in perception.
• The production unfolded over roughly three years with animal-first practices, often limiting Indy’s on-set time and capturing just one shot per day.
• Leonberg foregrounds the Kuleshov effect, floor-level framing, and withheld human expressions to sustain a dog’s-eye viewpoint and tension.
• Almost no production audio was used, as the team built the soundscape in post, including a custom ‘celloscillator’ that drives the final sequence’s sonic intensity.