Osgood Perkins’ Mysterious ‘Keeper’ Is In regards to the ‘Horror of Heterosexuality’

If there’s one factor Osgood Perkins followers can rely on, it’s that you just by no means know what to anticipate from his movies. Longlegs had a intentionally and persistently mystifying advert marketing campaign—then, when it hit theaters, it proved to be a serial-killer story that then mutated into something far stranger. The Monkey was a Stephen King adaptation—however solely to some extent, with Perkins’ script including layers of gore and weirdness because the titular cursed object crossed generations. His subsequent movie, Keeper, is equally enigmatic, although we now have a barely higher concept of what it’s about.

To this point, what we’ve seen of Keeper are posters and a couple of trailers, one among which is anchored by praise from Guillermo del Toro and different horror titans. Right this moment, Entertainment Weekly has some insights from Perkins and star Tatiana Maslany, although they’re obscure and guarded whereas speaking concerning the film. In fact.

“I’d at all times preferred the concept of doing a relationship horror film, so a horror film the place the connection is the scary factor,” Perkins informed EW.

The central relationship in Keeper is between Liz, performed by Maslany, and Malcolm, performed by Rossif Sutherland.

“It’s these hot-button subjects like poisonous masculinity or the patriarchy. You attempt to give it a form in the best way that horror passes via these eras the place the monster is merely the form of some greater challenge,” Perkins added.

For Maslany, “It’s just like the lies that we inform ourselves about ourselves and about our companions with the intention to keep there. I don’t know how you can phrase this with out giving something away, however the entice of the roles that we fall into and heterosexual expectations, I’d say … Yeah, the horror of heterosexuality.” (The EW article famous she was laughing as she stated that final half.)

One different nugget that emerges from the piece is that Keeper is unquestionably supernatural, with The Shining particularly famous as a reference level—attention-grabbing, but additionally bewildering. Sounds identical to the suitable state of mind to be in whereas sitting down to look at a Perkins film.

Keeper opens in theaters November 14.

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