10 Incredibly Bleak Recent Movie Endings
4. The Good Boy
Not to be confused with Good Boy, the 2025 outing that earned Indy the Dog the Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller at the Astra Film Awards, The Good Boy released in 2026 and was a thoroughly weird and discomforting outing that made absolutely no promises of any kind of happy ending from the very beginning.
Stephen Graham, at his ever scene-stealing finest, played Chris, who with his wife Kathryn (Andrea Riseborough) kidnapped a young offender to chain up in their home in lieu of the sort of punishment that would have had no effect whatsoever, and seen him back on the streets causing the same kind of horrific trouble as before.
As the youth in question, Anson Boon's Tommy, gained more freedom around the house and began to be treated more like a member of the family, the onset of Stockholm Syndrome wasn't exactly a shock. However, it was during his brief escape that really drove home how depressing the film was.
He had been locked up for months, and though his girlfriend had filed a missing persons report with the police, his mom had barely noticed. She had sent him a text or two, but really couldn't have cared less about his welfare. The fact that he was happy to go back to the house, taking his girlfriend with him no less, was heartbreaking, even for a character who began the story so detestable.