Osgood Perkins is moving into the relationship-horror movie subgenre. The auteur, who lately helmed each “Longlegs” and “The Monkey” for NEON, is about to launch his third movie with the distributor in lower than a 16-month span. Perkins additionally grew to become the primary ever filmmaker to land a first-look take care of the acclaimed studio, as introduced in Could 2025.
For “Keeper,” although, author/director Perkins is simply helming it: Nick Lepard wrote the script, with the one-location horror movie shot throughout the 2023 strikes between the “Longlegs” and “The Monkey” productions. The logline for “Keeper” reads: “Throughout an anniversary getaway at a distant cabin, a spouse (Tatiana Maslany) is left alone after her husband (Rossif Sutherland) departs, solely to confront a sinister presence that exposes the cabin’s chilling previous.”
Maslany additionally starred in Perkins’ “The Monkey,” which provided a sneak peek at “Keeper” in a post-credits scene. Perkins instructed IndieWire that “Keeper” is a “stunning, stunning film” that has a “grown-up, sort of relationship horror” side. Perkins raved that actress Maslany is “simply the best. She’s so infinite. I’m so fortunate to have her.”
And that wasn’t the one stroke of luck on the challenge: “Keeper” was shot as an indie throughout the strikes. “It was made throughout the [Writers Guild] strike, so I couldn’t write it,” Perkins mentioned. “This beautiful Canadian non-union man [Nick Lepard] wrote this film and we type of found out this factor.”
He continued of his profession, “I’ve landed myself in a supremely fortunate place the place all of my motion pictures get to be certainly one of one, proper? I believe that’s nearly anticipated now, at the very least after ‘Longlegs” into ‘The Monkey.’ I believe all people’s getting, ‘Oh proper, he’s not going to hit the identical beat twice, I don’t know what to anticipate.’”
Perkins added to IndieWire that ‘Keeper’ will probably be much like his “zoomed out” method to the horror style. Whereas “Longlegs” was his “pop model” of horror, “The Monkey” was a comedy about loss of life; “Keeper” is a meditation on relationships, very similar to fellow NEON launch “Collectively.”
NEON will premiere “Keeper” in theaters November 14. Take a look at the teaser trailer under.