There's something instantly unsettling about a cabin in the woods. Too much quiet, too much open space—every creak turns into a warning. Osgood Perkins, horror's soft-spoken sadist, leans into that unease with his new film Keeper, which NEON just unveiled in a teaser trailer. The movie opens November 14, 2025, positioning itself neatly in horror's post-Halloween echo chamber.
The setup sounds deceptively simple: a couple heads to a secluded cabin for an anniversary getaway. Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) leaves abruptly, returning to the city. Liz (Tatiana Maslany, back in Perkins' orbit after The Monkey) remains—and what follows seems less like solitude and more like a confrontation with the unspeakable. Evil doesn't knock here. It sits inside the walls.
The casting is sharp. Maslany—still carrying the unpredictable dualities of Orphan Black—knows how to shape fear without making it obvious. Sutherland plays against her, restrained and watchful. Around them, a supporting ensemble (Tess Degenstein, Glen Gordon, Claire Friesen, Christin Park, Birkett Turton, Erin Boyes, Gina Vultaggio) populates what may or may not be figments, echoes, or something far worse.
Perkins directs from a screenplay by Nick Lepard, shooting just outside Vancouver. What's striking is how the film has already been described: “Marriage Story” colliding with “Evil Dead.” Divorce-level intimacy smashed against supernatural rot—that's either marketing bravado or exactly what Perkins has been circling in his career. Think of his lineage: The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), Gretel & Hansel (2020), then a double strike in the last two years with Longlegs (2024) and The Monkey (2025). Keeper marks his third feature in under two years, a pace that feels almost obsessive.
The teaser itself is all fractured stillness. Too much silence, until the sound design claws at you. Maslany's eyes tell more story than any line of dialogue. And then—the image of the cabin itself, beautiful yet wrong. You know the kind of wrong: the kind that lingers in your gut after the frame cuts to black.
Keeper is produced by Chris Ferguson and Jesse Savath, and distributed by NEON—the studio that has turned unsettling, art-driven horror into its unofficial brand identity. If Longlegs was Perkins' feverish nightmare and The Monkey his King-adaptation warm-up, this feels like the director locking himself inside his own cage and rattling it.
The film will hit select U.S. theaters on November 14, 2025, according to NEON's official release slate. Until then, we've only got this teaser, a poster, and the suspicion that the “keeper” in question isn't just the cabin. Or maybe it is. Or maybe the title's just mocking us.
What We Learned from the Keeper Teaser
Tatiana Maslany in full horror mode
Her isolated presence drives the trailer—quiet dread, fraying edges, subtle panic.
Osgood Perkins' horror trilogy streak
With Longlegs (2024), The Monkey (2025), and now Keeper (2025), Perkins is on an uncanny run of back-to-back releases.
Cabin horror reimagined
Rather than gore-splatter, the film promises psychological rot—marital intimacy curdled into supernatural menace.
A Vancouver-shot chamber piece
The single-location shoot enhances both budgetary restraint and claustrophobic energy.
November release slot
Arriving November 14, 2025, Keeper hits just after Halloween season, a clever counterprogramming move.
