‘Keeper’ – We Just Watched 30 Minutes of the New Osgood Perkins Horror Movie

“I didn’t really know what we were going to be seeing,” Osgood Perkins admits live on stage after 30 minutes of his new movie Keeper were screened to a select group in New York and Los Angeles earlier this week. The fans and journalists in attendance had even less of an idea of what they were about to see, which has become the norm for an Osgood Perkins picture.

Perkins, the son of the late legend Anthony Perkins, keeps his artistic instrument clear, allowing no distractions to seep their way into his creative process. His instrument? His mind.

“If you’re going to be putting out, you’ve got to be putting in. It’s like eating well. Drinking less. You’re really cognizant about what you’re ingesting,” Perkins explains. “I try not to put a bunch of junk into my system. I don’t watch Netflix, I don’t have Netflix. Netflix is the opposite of what I do. I don’t watch bad movies. I don’t watch a lot of horror movies. I don’t really like them. I don’t really watch them. I read a lot. I play with my kids. I listen to music. I go to coffee shops and I watch people. That’s how I feed myself. I go to the museum. I read poems. I read comic books. And I try not to watch the news. I don’t have any social media. It’s taking care of your instrument. If I’m the vessel that the stuff pours through, I might as well keep it fairly clean.”

It’s a process that’s clearly working for Osgood Perkins.

Perkins was 41 when he made his first movie, The Blackcoat’s Daughter in 2015, and in the past few years alone he’s made a huge impact at the box office with Longlegs starring Nicolas Cage last year and Stephen King adaptation The Monkey this year, both of which are being followed by sixth movie Keeper this November, his third collaboration with distributor NEON.