First Details on Osgood Perkins’ ‘Keeper’: A Spine-Tingling Two-Character Horror Starring Tatiana Maslany

Director Osgood Perkins, known for The Monkey and Longlegs, is gearing up for his next film, Keeper. This indie horror movie, starring Tatiana Maslany, is set to hit theaters in October 2025. The film is an intimate, two-character thriller about a woman who must face a sinister force after her husband mysteriously disappears during a remote getaway at their cabin.

Keeper is part of a trio of films Perkins has been working on, including Longlegs and The Monkey, which was adapted from a Stephen King short story. When major studios rejected his take on The Monkey, Perkins was able to make the film independently with the help of producers James Wan and Peter Safran. Perkins’ style, combining horror and comedy, has often been hard for studios to embrace, but his vision for the project remained strong.

“I had to take it and run,” Perkins said, referring to his decision to keep working on The Monkey and Keeper despite the industry’s hesitation.

Filming Keeper was a quick and creative process, as Perkins worked closely with Canadian actors and crew, navigating the challenges of the 2023 writers’ strike. The result is a small but powerful story about a woman grappling with an unexpected and mysterious threat in a secluded setting.

I went to Vancouver to make Longlegs, and I hadn’t made a movie in a long time. I then fell in love with the Canadian crew and my Vancouver producer, Chris Ferguson, during the adventure of making Longlegs. We’ve formed this amazing kind of mini-Hollywood up there, and we felt good about what we were doing.

So we were ready to get started on The Monkey after freeing it up from the studio, and we’d got the financing. We had everybody and the crew was equally committed and wanted to keep the party going, but then the strikes set into their long haul. There was that moment there where the Writers Guild strike seemed like it was never going to end and the world was going to crack. So I called Chris and was like, “Well, we’ve got to keep working, man. The dream was to just go from one movie to the next, so we’ve got to figure something out.

Maslany, impressed with Perkins’ fast-paced, hands-on approach, quickly signed on to join The Monkey as well. The film is already generating buzz for its unique blend of suspense and horror, with Perkins’ personal experiences influencing the film’s exploration of random, tragic events.

The shortest version of the story is that we found a Canadian writer who could do it, who wasn’t a Writers Guild writer [Nick Lepard]. We then found Canadian actors who would wave their SAG status and work as Canadians.

So we formed this movie called Keeper out of nothing, and we just kept working. We did it fast and on the fly. We did it with a lot of trust and good faith. It’s an intimate, small, weird movie with, essentially, two characters. So we wrapped that movie on a Friday, and on the following Monday, we were in the offices of The Monkey. That’s just the way it went. We had a rhythm, and we just loved each other. So, if you find that and you’re capable and willing and not exhausted beyond your limit, then why not keep going?

Keeper is shaping up to be another thrilling addition to Perkins’ filmography, and fans can expect a gripping, eerie story when it premieres in 2025.

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