Osgood Perkins Unleashes a One-Night Triple Feature in Theaters: Longlegs, The Monkey, and Keeper
Neon is unleashing an Osgood Perkins triple feature—Longlegs, The Monkey, and Keeper—into theaters for one night only, a single scream-packed run for horror fans to devour.
Osgood Perkins is having a moment, and by moment I mean he basically hit the gas and never looked back. After a slow-burn start to his directing career, he has turned the last year into a personal film festival — and Neon is now literally turning it into an actual one-night festival in theaters.
How we got here
Perkins debuted with The Blackcoat's Daughter in 2015, followed fast by I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House in 2016. Then came a four-year breather before Gretel & Hansel, and another four years before Longlegs. And then he flipped to turbo: The Monkey arrived just seven months after Longlegs, Keeper is set to hit theaters on November 14 (nine months after The Monkey), and he has already started filming his next one, The Young People. The man is busy.
Neon turns it into a triple shot
To celebrate the run (and their growing partnership), Neon is rolling out a one-night-only Osgood Perkins triple feature on November 13. One ticket gets you Longlegs, The Monkey, and Keeper back-to-back-to-back. Yes, they are literally screening Keeper the night before it opens wide. Smart flex.
Where you can see it
- Albuquerque – Cinemark Century Rio Plex
- Baltimore – Cinemark Egyptian
- Boston – AMC Boston Common
- Cleveland – Cinemark Valley View
- Corpus Christi – Cinemark Century 16
- Dallas – Cinemark West Plano
- El Paso – Cinemark Tinseltown 20
- Fresno – Regal Fresno Riverpark (TBD)
- Harlingen – Cinemark Pharr Town Center
- Houston – Regal Houston Marq'E (TBD)
- Los Angeles – AMC Burbank 16
- New York – AMC Empire
- Orlando – AMC Disney Springs
- Sacramento – Cinemark Century Arden
- San Diego – AMC Mission Valley
- San Jose – Cinemark Century Oakridge
- Springfield – Cinemark West Springfield
More venues could pop up; keep an eye on Neon's site for additions.
What you are actually seeing (and who is in them)
Longlegs is the occult-tinged serial-killer chiller anchored by Maika Monroe as FBI agent Lee Harker, a gifted rookie chasing a murderer with a taste for ritual. The case spirals, it gets personal, and she is racing the clock to stop another family from dying. Nicolas Cage is in full presence mode, with Alicia Witt and Blair Underwood supporting. The vibe is very much classic Hollywood psychological thriller, just filtered through Perkins' taste for dread.
The Monkey is Perkins adapting Stephen King from the ground up. He wrote the script from King's short story about twin brothers who find their dad's creepy toy monkey and then people start dying in awful ways. They dump the thing, grow apart, and years later the deaths start up again, forcing them back together to finish what they should have finished the first time. Theo James plays the twins as adults, Christian Convery plays them as kids, and the supporting cast is stacked: Elijah Wood, Tatiana Maslany, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, and Sarah Levy.
Keeper is directed by Perkins from a Nick Lepard script. Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland play a couple on an anniversary getaway to a secluded cabin. He is Malcolm, she is Liz, and when Malcolm suddenly heads back to the city, Liz is left alone with something unspeakable — and the cabin's secrets stop being metaphors and start being a problem.
Why Neon is all-in
Perkins and producer Chris Ferguson recently launched their banner, Phobos, with Neon backing and a first-look deal that essentially gives Neon pole position on what he makes and what he produces for others. The gist, per Deadline:
"Under the first-look deal, Neon will house films that Perkins writes and directs, as well as those he produces for other filmmakers. Neon will release the features theatrically in the U.S. and represent the international rights. Perkins will continue to work with producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Range."
Translation: expect more Perkins in theaters, and expect Neon to keep making nights like this triple feature happen. If you are into moody, methodical horror with sharp edges, this is basically a curated crash course wrapped in a single ticket.