After all, audiences are immediately skeptical of horror movies with dogs in them (to the point where there’s a whole website dedicated to warning dog lovers if one dies in a movie). Because ...

Yet by putting a dog in these scenarios, the filmmakers play on a delicious knowledge imbalance that fuels suspense. We, as humans who've watched (arguably too many) horror movies, can clock these ...

But filmmaker Ben Leonberg took things a step further. He’s taken his own dog, Indy, and made him the center of a feature-length horror film. The photogenic retriever takes the ball and runs ...