KEEPER Explores Some “Disgusting” Themes, Says Osgood Perkins

If the success of Osgood Perkins' Longlegs is anything to go by, NEON is doing the lord's work by keeping the marketing campaign for Keeper, Perkins' latest, equally mysterious. However, Perkins and star Tatiana Maslany have revealed a little tidbit of what we can expect thematically from the upcoming “dark trip”.

In a new interview with ComicBook.com, Perkins spilled the beans on the core themes of Keeper, which hits theaters on November 14. While the following quotes do not directly spoil the central narrative of Keeper, those who want to go in to the movie without knowing anything may wish to skip reading:

“It’s the worst part of being male […] It’s a look at disgusting maleness. If you wanna call it the patriarchy, you wanna call it misogyny, you wanna call it toxic masculinity, whatever you wanna call it. It’s a depiction of our worst selves as men. That’s my answer to you. Sometimes we have to look and be like, ‘ew, gross.’ And I think that Keeper is a look at men, ‘gross.’” 

Maslany, who also recently starred in Perkins' The Monkey, adds:

“I would say, in some ways, it’s also a look at women, gross, if we’re gonna get super binary about it […] But I do think it is the instincts that you ignore, or the ways you know something but have gaslit yourself. Which is obviously, I guess, patriarchy. That’s patriarchy. Never mind, it’s all about men. Men suck.”

Written by Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals), Keeper stars Possessor‘s Rossif Sutherland alongside Maslany, and follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin:

When Malcolm (Sutherland) suddenly returns to the city, Liz (Maslany) finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.

Perkins and Maslany's comments do seem to align with what we've seen in the latest trailer, which sees a bunch of women being voyeuristically watched by someone – or something. Let the theories abound!