After Longlegs (among the best motion pictures of 2024) and his gory Stephen King adaptation, The Monkey, Osgood Perkins already has one other upcoming horror film that is set to hit theaters this fall. It’s referred to as Keeper and, up to now, there have been much more questions and theories in regard to what the film is definitely about. So, once I caught up with Perkins and the film’s star, Tatiana Maslany, at San Diego Comedian-Con on behalf of CinemaBlend final week, they helped clear up a number of the commonest misconceptions concerning the manufacturing.
Osgood Perkins Shares His Intentions Behind Keeper’s Teaser Trailer
Final week, the primary teaser for Keeper hit YouTube, and it bought followers speculating about what precisely is being deliberate by the filmmaker who showcased Nicolas Cage’s creepy efficiency in Longlegs. For the reason that first look dropped, followers have been theorizing that the film happens throughout totally different time intervals and can maybe be much like the first-person POV of the critically-acclaimed early 2025 film Presence. After I introduced these concepts to Perkins, right here’s what he needed to say:
It could not be extra far off. It has nothing to do with that. It has nothing to do with Presence. It has nothing to do with any individual watching folks. Actually what that teaser reveals is girls by time, in numerous time intervals. 1800s girls, there is a Fifties girl, there’s an eighties girl and seventies girl, after which there’s Tatiana from the current.
I actually imagined a blaring recreation present button sound when Perkins shot down the fan theories I’ve seen rolling across the web. (To be sincere, I’ve additionally mentioned these concepts with my different horror-loving co-workers.) It sounds just like the teaser may be very a lot a teaser, and purposefully doesn’t give away a lot from the film itself. Because the filmmaker continued:
If it is imagined to say something, it is imagined to kind of say like, love by time or relationships by time are primarily the identical. Like, it isn’t like we primarily convey the identical issues to what can be what can be messing somebody up within the 1800s isn’t that totally different from what can be messing somebody up within the 1900s.
As of late, audiences so used to seeing motion pictures spelled out for them in trailers, however Osgood Perkins and Neon are taking a unique strategy for the brand new horror film. Thank goodness too, as a result of my lack of know-how concerning the specifics really has me extra excited for the movie in some way.
What Keeper Is Truly About
Now, after all, I did hunt down readability about what precisely followers needs to be anticipating from Keeper. Right here’s what Perkins stated about the subject material of his subsequent film:
We needed to make a film a couple of horror film a couple of relationship. And you already know, a part of what we love to do, me and my collaborators, we prefer to take kind of a recognizable form and poke holes in it and attempt to make one thing new and unique.
Perkins advised us he was within the “horrors of relationships,” and was additionally making an attempt to make a film for lower than $1 million. As he continued:
It is a single location film. It is a cabin within the woods, but it surely’s actually about these people who find themselves kind of occurring their first journey away collectively. She’s going to his cabin within the woods and what’s there and what’s their each in.
In brief, the director is taking a typical trope in horror motion pictures and placing his personal spin on it. With that in thoughts, I’m so considering what we’ll get with Keeper. Particularly with Neon additionally having one other relationship film, Collectively, which options physique horror moments.
Tatiana Maslany Shares Her Response To Seeing Keeper For The First Time
In the course of the interview, Tatiana Maslany additionally teased Keeper for us by sharing her response to seeing the film for herself. As she defined:
My expertise watching Keeper too was that I discovered it very entertaining, however then additionally left going, ‘Oh my God, I would like to love, research this film.’ Like, I am curious what persons are gonna learn into this movie. I really feel like a extremely good viewers that will get off on these issues. On watching a movie a number of occasions. And kind of like gathering hints and getting obsessive about some through-line or no matter. There’s loads of stuff to feast on on this film.
Maslany additionally introduced up how the film “couldn’t be extra totally different” from each The Monkey (which we give 4 stars in our evaluate), which she really shot after this newest movie and even Longlegs. The actress additionally referred to as it a “method grownup film,” significantly because of the way it approaches romantic relationships.
After talking with Osgood Perkins and Tatiana Maslany, I am undoubtedly much more intrigued and interested in what horrors are to come back in Keeper. The movie is ready to hit theaters amid the 2025 film schedule on November 14 and, within the meantime, attempt to not get too wrapped up in these theories.