After the wildly divisive 2024 horror movie Longlegs, and just some months since he launched the horror comedy The Monkey, Osgood Perkins has returned to ship what’s absolutely considered one of his most fascinating initiatives. Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland, is his new mysterious film – a mission that has been stored beneath wraps amid some fascinating advertising and marketing nods by Neon, the studio that has determined to maintain Perkins beneath its wing. The brand new trailer for Keeper has been launched, and if you happen to thought that Perkins was going to disclose something concerning the premise, you bought the fallacious concept. The movie has simply gotten far more fascinating. And extra terrifying, in fact.
The trailer, captioned with “Why does it all the time have to finish,” premiered just lately on YouTube. Maslany’s character is seen being intimate with a person, however within the voice-over, her character appears to be asking herself some questions on them. Just a few eerie photographs later, it is the person’s flip, and he goes via the identical course of. What’s fascinating is that, within the trailer, she’s listed as “Liz” (notice the citation marks). However Malcolm is Malcolm, with out the marks.
May this have some that means? Does the movie happen in fashionable occasions? Then, why does the clothes really feel misplaced in a few of the photographs that always flash on the display? The synopsis for the movie stays the identical as when the mission was introduced:
A spouse turns into remoted in a secluded cabin and has to fend off an unspeakable evil.
The press notice for the trailer’s launch additionally accommodates a part of the lyrics to the basic tune, “I Do not Need To Play In Your Yard.” May this imply one thing as effectively?
You may’t holler down our rain barrel
You may’t climb our apple tree
I do not wanna play in your yard,
When you can’t be good to me.
Osgood Perkins Is Certainly one of Fashionable Horror’s Most Authentic Filmmakers
With Longlegs, Oz Perkins had the assist of Neon, an organization that totally trusted the impression of the film and executed some of the fascinating advertising and marketing campaigns in latest reminiscence. In the meantime, 2025’s The Monkey was a Stephen King adaptation, and the work to generate buzz was midway completed with the writer’s title alone. Nonetheless, Perkins confronted the problem of the movie’s polarizing tone, which survived a divided viewers with a profitable field workplace run.
Keeper, one other 2025 launch, is a problem due to how shut its launch is to Perkins’ newest film (he has additionally mentioned that the script was being written whereas The Monkey was in manufacturing). However judging from what we have seen, Perkins is making an attempt to ship a totally completely different film. One which feels truly nearer in tone to the director’s psychological-horror-themed The Blackcoat’s Daughter.
Nevertheless, there’s extra to his profession than simply his final three movies. Gretel & Hansel is an outstanding and atmospheric spin on the basic story, whatever the combined reception it bought. And the Netflix ghost movie I Am the Fairly Factor That Lives within the Home is an excellent slow-burn exploration of supernatural horror tropes. Earlier than the discharge of Keeper, be sure to rewatch the primary half of his filmography, because it presents a glimpse into the director’s most unhinged and experimental facet.
Keeper
- Launch Date
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November 14, 2025
- Director
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Osgood Perkins
- Writers
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Nick Lepard
- Producers
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Chris Ferguson, Jesse Savath
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Rossif Sutherland
Malcolm
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