‘Mesmerizingly Strange’ Or ‘Profoundly Dull’? Critics Have Seen Keeper, And Their Opinions Are All Over The Place

Osgood Perkins has been killing it in the horror genre with movies like last year’s Longlegs and The Monkey , which hit the 2025 movie calendar earlier this year. Already he’s got a new horror flick hitting the big screen in Keeper , which — like his recent Stephen King adaption — stars Tatiana Maslany . Critics have screened Keeper , and they are not in agreement over what sounds like an absurdly nightmarish experience.

There’s been a lot of speculation about what Osgood Perkins’ latest movie is even about , with its trailer jam-packed with terrifying imagery that doesn’t answer a whole lot of questions. Bill Bria of SlashFilm describes it as a “big bowl of horror movie stew” that unfolds like an onion into different horror subgenres, but in a way which the critic thi