The master of slow-burn terror, Osgood Perkins, is back to bend reality once again. After unnerving audiences with Longlegs and The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Perkins now turns his lens toward intimate dread in Keeper, a surreal, suffocating cabin horror starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland.
The newly released trailer confirms what whispers from festival screenings suggested: Keeper is no ordinary haunted-cabin movie. It’s an atmospheric, psychological descent that transforms love and isolation into something deeply menacing.
Liz (Maslany) and Malcolm (Sutherland) head to a remote forest cabin to celebrate their anniversary, but when Malcolm abruptly returns to the city, Liz finds herself stranded and stalked by an unseen force. The official synopsis hints that the property itself hides “a haunting past” that begins to mirror Liz’s inner turmoil.
Perkins describes the film as a “relationship horror”, using the supernatural as an allegory for emotional distance and fractured intimacy. In his words, “It’s about the things unsaid between two people, and what happens when those things start to manifest.”
The trailer, which premiered in late September via Neon, unfolds like a fever dream. The first half tracks Liz’s growing unease, shadows flickering, disembodied whispers, flashes of women from different eras staring directly at the camera, before snapping into a second, jarring perspective from Malcolm’s point of view.
Cinematographer Jeremy Cox (The Monkey) bathes the cabin in dim amber tones that slowly bleed into oppressive darkness, while Edo Van Breemen’s score hums like something alive in the walls. Perkins’ unique approach, dubbed “horror origami” by Guillermo del Toro, folds traditional dread into strange, poetic shapes.
Following limited preview screenings, Keeper has already garnered early praise from horror veterans: Anecdotal festival reports described the film as “beautifully suffocating,” though the quote has not been independently verified.
Critics who attended early cuts at Fantastic Fest likened Maslany’s performance to “a one-woman descent into madness that rivals Toni Collette in Hereditary.” Her portrayal of Liz reportedly balances raw panic with eerie calm, a performance that feels both deeply human and terrifyingly detached.
Keeper is slated for a U.S. theatrical release on November 14, 2025, followed by an international rollout through Neon and Focus Features. Horror fans can expect a slow, methodical burn rather than a barrage of jump scares, the kind of film that stays under your skin long after the credits roll.
With Keeper, Osgood Perkins once again proves that horror doesn’t need to shout to be terrifying. Sometimes, all it takes is a whisper in an empty room… and the creeping thought that maybe you’re not alone.
