Osgood Perkins just can’t stop making horror films. After a four-year gap between his third and fourth film, Keeper is his third movie in two years — and his second of 2025, after The Monkey (which also starred Tatiana Maslany). Also working at an impressive pace is screenwriter Nick Lepard, who wrote this summer’s Dangerous Animals . But Keeper is an entirely different beast from both Perkins’ and Lepard’s most recent films.

This cabin-in-the-woods chiller is largely a study in atmosphere. Its plot is deliberately slight, and Maslany and Rossif Sutherland’s appropriately uneasy chemistry as a not-so-happy couple often plays second fiddle to haunting imagery and Perkins’ penchant for building sustained dread. Cinematographer Jeremy Cox does sensational work, delivering one uns

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