Keeper (2025)

kroenen

kroenen

Regimen Morum
6,548
32,399
0.00 star(s) Rating: 0.00/5 0 Votes
Title: Keeper (2025)

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Director: Osgood Perkins

Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Birkett Turton, Claire Friesen, Erin Boyes, Logan Pierce, Glen Gordon, Erin Tipple, Gina Vultaggio, Tess Degenstein, Christin Park, Evelyn Burke, Ella Wejr

Release: 2025-11-13

Plot: Liz and Malcolm escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm suddenly returns to the city, Liz finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that reveals the cabin's horrifying secrets.
 
jayrebb

jayrebb

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
15,761
15,764
Well that was different.

Symbolism had to be explained by cliffnotes (with most critics also agreeing). It's atmospheric and a fresh take with fresh direction on a familiar story.

Perkins certainly has a place in the genre going forward, either way-- coming off Longlegs and The Monkey.
 
  • 3Like
Reactions: 2 users
Heriotze

Heriotze

<Gold Donor>
1,076
1,487
Visually and tonally this was another great entry from Perkins. The classic "unseen until it's seen" for the actual horror elements is tried and true for a reason and it works incredibly well here. I had a love/hate relationship with Maslany's performance up until things started going and then it clicked and I think that she played it incredibly well but I almost think that she was cast specifically to play it this particular way so I'm still a bit off on that one aspect. I guess that I think that her performance was her just being her and less of her acting. He coaxed/planned a great typecast performance out of a middling actor which is what a great director can, and should, do.

Upstate New York rich person cottage country houses have become so off-putting in films and it clicks my brain into an almost Lovecraftian sense of recognizing how off things are now. Dimly lit, wood paneled modernist angular structures in a nature setting irks my aesthetics for what relaxing in a cabin has always meant so the entire setting was great for tension building. Gretel and Hansel also did this very well.

It felt speedy and maybe too small of a story for a the length of a film but it did what it set out to do very well. I'd agree that it's another incredibly well made film from Perkins.
 
  • 1Great Review
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 users
Dr.Retarded

Dr.Retarded

<Silver Donator>
18,007
39,751
Heriotze said:
Visually and tonally this was another great entry from Perkins. The classic "unseen until it's seen" for the actual horror elements is tried and true for a reason and it works incredibly well here. I had a love/hate relationship with Maslany's performance up until things started going and then it clicked and I think that she played it incredibly well but I almost think that she was cast specifically to play it this particular way so I'm still a bit off on that one aspect. I guess that I think that her performance was her just being her and less of her acting. He coaxed/planned a great typecast performance out of a middling actor which is what a great director can, and should, do.

Upstate New York rich person cottage country houses have become so off-putting in films and it clicks my brain into an almost Lovecraftian sense of recognizing how off things are now. Dimly lit, wood paneled modernist angular structures in a nature setting irks my aesthetics for what relaxing in a cabin has always meant so the entire setting was great for tension building. Gretel and Hansel also did this very well.

It felt speedy and maybe too small of a story for a the length of a film but it did what it set out to do very well. I'd agree that it's another incredibly well made film from Perkins.
Click to expand...
Man that gives me hope that he's delivering on another good film.

What's the easiest way for me to watch this without having to rent it for $20? And I haven't sailed the seas in years so there's that.
 
Vuuxo

Vuuxo

Scaphism
<Gold Donor>
2,706
9,129
Dr.Retarded said:
Man that gives me hope that he's delivering on another good film.

What's the easiest way for me to watch this without having to rent it for $20? And I haven't sailed the seas in years so there's that.
Click to expand...
Sail the seas again, my friend!
barry clifford pirate GIF
 
  • 3Worf
Reactions: 2 users
Movie information in first post provided by The Movie Database
You must log in or register to reply here.