Keeper (2025)

Eerie, Atmospheric ‘Keeper’ Is Thin On Story, Heavy On Imagery. Its story may stretch the movie’s length to the breaking point, but Osgood Perkins’ ‘Keeper’ still manages to keep you on the edge of your seat. For his sixth directorial effort (and third in 16 months, following ‘Longlegs’ in 2024 and ‘The Monkey’ earlier this year), director (and one-time actor) Osgood Perkins swerves again, pivoting from the horror-comedy of the latter to a darker, more foreboding tale set against a backdrop of nature and featuring almost a folk horror vibe.

Notably, he did not write ‘Keeper’ – it was penned by Canadian scribe Nick Lepard, who was able to work on it during the 2023 writers’ strike in Hollywood – but the film does bear Perkins’ trademarks as a director, with unsettling imagery, creepy sound design, and the use of both darkness and silence all in abundance.