A good movie about a bad teen needing rehabilitation.

There are teenagers who rebel to the point of either being a lost cause or lose their common decency. And there are those who share their mischief, violence, and bullying to social media for views and likes. Half the time, they can be redeemed, and half the time, they can’t.

So why not make the young jerk a prisoner in a family home with a chain around his neck and in the basement? And as an added bonus, if he screams when someone comes to the house, they will taser the chains. Nice touch.

Originally titled “Good Boy,” “Heel” has that kind of premise, which would qualify itself as a crime horror drama. What is done is a crime, and the troubled victim is guaranteed to curse like a sailor. The kind of cursing when he threatens to kill them and do unspeakable things to them. Now that’s not going to get himself out of the chains anytime soon. Come to think of it, I was considering the same thing when Bill Skarsgard played a young thief trapped in a car in “Locked” last year, but let me get to “Heel’s” premise.

It takes place in Yorkshire. The victim is Tommy (Anson Boon), and his introduction includes masturbating at a club bathroom, urinating at a bus stop, and screwing around with his friends. And his captors are the couple Chris (Stephen Graham) and Kathryn (Andrea Riseborough) and their son Jonathan (Kit Rakusen). And the new housekeeper who might find the family’s methods unorthodox is a Polish immigrant named Rina (Monika Frajczyk).

It’s not just Tommy being punished for his unacceptable behavior, but there’s an unsettling scene when the parents make Jonathan smoke three cigarettes at a time as punishment for trying one. Now by doing that in reality, you actually make your child an addict because of the nicotine inside them.

But that’s just a minor thing, as the boy soon becomes close to Tommy, just as he was with somebody who may or may not be his brother. Who was he and what happened to that boy? We don’t know yet. And while the teenager appears to be on the road to redemption, he’s also trying to find a way out of his captivity.

Despite Tommy’s attitude towards Rina and how he wants her help in his escape, she ends up becoming an unnecessary character in the story. There’s not much development in her, and then there’s also a tiny subplot, where she may be stalked by men, who eventually make their way into the house. We don’t know what their deal is, even when that scene takes place, and you feel like the film wasn’t interested in her that much.

But other than that, “Heel” has some sly wit, an interesting character study for the teenager and his captors, and some ingenuous ideas on how an unorthodox and illegal rehabilitation program like this can play out. It was directed by Jan Komasa, who just made the political horror film “Anniversary,” and was also produced by Jerzy Skolimowski, whose last directing job was “EO.” And their first collaboration is oddly effective and interesting with how this dysfunctional family has the father feeling devoted to helping troubled people, the mother in a droopy state, and the son being the lovable one. And their family may or may not be extended by this fowl-mouthed baddie played brilliantly by Boon.

So basically, we have two movies about imprisonment this week, as there was also the IFC horror movie “Dolly,” which has a monster trying to make a young woman its child. At least that’s what we think it’s about. If “Heel” is a horror movie and it can be a little unsettling sometimes, then this is the better one to see, especially when Tommy’s captivity and hopes for escape isn’t on repeat.

In Select Theaters and On Demand Tomorrow