Hideo Kojima, Fede Alvarez, and Bong Joon Ho Crown Osgood Perkins as Horror’s New Wizard With Keeper

Osgood Perkins is not slowing down. Fresh off Longlegs and The Monkey, he has a new horror film on deck called Keeper. It stars Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland as a couple celebrating an anniversary trip that (shocker) goes very, very wrong. Plot details are mostly under wraps, but the marketing push is leaning hard on a who's-who of genre royalty singing its praises.

So what is Keeper, exactly?

Mystery is the point here. The setup is simple: two people, a milestone getaway, and then the bottom drops out. Perkins tends to trade in mood and dread more than jump scares, and the promo keeps everything close to the chest while letting some heavy hitters vouch for the experience.

The hype reel flex

A new trailer is basically one big endorsement parade, with big names dropping very specific superlatives. For clarity: these are not reviews, they are promo quotes — but the lineup is wild.

• Fede Alvarez (Alien: Romulus) calls Keeper "an experience of pure terror."
• James Wan (Insidious, Saw) says it is "a terrifying descent into madness."
• Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Frankenstein) dubs it "horror origami that skillfully folds into itself."
• Hideo Kojima (Death Stranding) goes big on Perkins himself: "Perkins blends new fear and surprise. He is the wizard of horror."
• Damien Leone (Terrifier) adds that "Perkins is a formidable voice in horror."
• Bong Joon Ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) says Perkins "has a natural talent for discomfort that transforms into fear."

Worth noting: a similar trailer dropped last month built around some of the same heavyweight kudos (del Toro, Wan, Leone). The repetition feels intentional — the campaign is making 'trust the curator' its whole angle.

Maslany on why she signed on

Earlier this year, Maslany told GamesRadar+ that Perkins keeps her guessing from project to project and that even though his last three films are wildly different in scale and tone, they circle the same existential storm clouds — inherited trauma and the impossible-to-grasp nature of death.

"I think what's exciting about Oz's work, and why I'm so drawn to it, is that it never does the thing you're expecting. These three movies that have just come or, you know, coming out in such a short span of time are all so incredibly different. The size of them is different, the tone is different, the story is very different. But there are themes that recur in terms of, like, inherited trauma and the unknowability of death, and facing death in incomprehensible ways."

Cast and date

Keeper stars Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk) and Rossif Sutherland (Murder in a Small Town) as the couple at the center of the nightmare. The film opens in theaters November 14.