Neon really likes Osgood Perkins. The indie distributor has now backed his last three films, including the recent “The Monkey,” a deliriously over-the-top adaptation of Stephen King’s short story that played like a blood-soaked cartoon. If you’ve seen “The Monkey,” you know it’s not a film meant to be taken too seriously — gory, loud, and teetering on the edge of self-parody.
Now comes our first look at Perkins’ next project, “Keeper,” potentially a more serious film, which had its teaser attached to “The Monkey” and has finally surfaced online. The film even has a release date: November 14, 2025. That means we’re getting two Osgood Perkins films in the same year — but this one, “Keeper,” may be the more intriguing of the two.
The teaser itself is striking — well-shot, carefully framed, and undeniably creepy. There’s an eerie precision to the visuals, suggesting a more atmospheric horror story.
“Keeper” stars Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland as a couple who head to a remote cabin for an anniversary getaway, only to discover they’re not alone. An “unspeakable evil” begins to manifest, unearthing the cabin’s long-buried secrets.
Perkins reportedly wrote the film during the WGA strike by hiring a non-WGA Canadian writer, Nick Lepard, to quickly bang out a screenplay. The shoot lasted just three weeks and wrapped in August 2024. The budget? Under $8M. Like “Longlegs” and “The Monkey” before it, “Keeper” sticks to the microbudget horror formula that Perkins seems increasingly comfortable working within.
Before becoming Neon’s horror guy, Perkins made his debut with 2015’s “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” and later followed it up with the stylish “Gretel & Hansel” in 2020. Then came “Longlegs,” and the viral marketing behind it, a film that managed to gross an impressive $127M worldwide.
If note, Perkins is also, for those who still don’t know, the eldest son of “Psycho” star Anthony Perkins — a bit of legacy casting from the universe, perhaps.