US EditionPublished • loading... • Updated
'Keeper' review: Osgood Perkins' latest doesn’t live up to its name
- On November 14, Keeper opens in cinemas, directed by Osgood Perkins and starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland, with critics praising its visuals but criticizing the story.
- After successes with Longlegs and The Monkey, Osgood Perkins filmed Keeper largely while The Monkey was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood labour strikes and it may have been reassembled quickly before submission.
- Liz and Malcolm head to his family's secluded cabin, where Liz samples a mysterious cake and soon experiences visions and threats as Darren and Minka intrude.
- Reviewers credit several effective jump scares and grisly moments, praising Tatiana Maslany as the emotional anchor, yet many say the narrative payoff is underwhelming and unclear.
- Keeper slots into the contemporary cabin-in-the-woods subgenre and gendered horror, testing Osgood Perkins, director's trajectory after his breakout with Longlegs.
Insights by Ground AI
21 Articles
21 Articles
'Keeper' Is Another Oz Perkins Snooze
NEONKids these days are calling it “theme slop,” a term I never thought I’d deploy, but alas, here we are. Keeper, the latest horror film from Osgood Perkins — his third with boutique studio NEON in just 16 months — is a ramshackle house of cards built on a foundation of good ideas about domestic relationships. It harbors, at times, the kind of creepy atmosphere Perkins brought to Longlegs, his Diet Zodiac oddity, but it also falls apart much qu…
·United States
Read Full Article
‘Keeper’ Review: Osgood Perkins Directs an ‘Impressonistic’ Serial-Killer Movie — Lots of Creepy Atmosphere, Not Much Logic
It has a few disturbing moments, but mostly it feels like the director of "Longlegs" projecting the random horror mixtape of his brain onto the screen.
·Los Angeles, United States
Read Full Article
Coverage Details
Total News Sources21
Leaning Left8Leaning Right0Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution73% Left
Bias Distribution
- 73% of the sources lean Left
73% Left
L 73%
C 27%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
