Films

Walker is a financially struggling artist who accepts an unusually well-paid job: looking after Doug, a man who lives as though he were a dog. What begins as a simple source of income leads him into a secret subculture where people behave like animals and millionaires take on the role of owners, slowly trapping him in a logic of submission, control and dehumanization. The longer Walker spends in this world, the more the experience begins to affect his relationship with Kylie and his own perception of who he is. Directed by Jay Burleson, “Kenneled” is a twisted psychological thriller about power, manipulation and fetishism that turns strangeness into genuine discomfort. Somewhere between the absurd and the disturbing, it is a degenerate cousin of “Good Boy” (2022), reminding us that money isn’t everything… and that sometimes it’s better to turn down a job that seems too good to be true.