Oz Perkins has been on quite the roll in recent years. 2024’s Longlegs was a huge hit, which he quickly followed with The Monkey earlier in 2025. And before the year is through, he’ll be unleashing another new horror – Keeper, which has been teased in a series of cryptic trailers. You never quite know what to expect in one of Perkins’ films, and yet Keeper looks particularly mysterious.
Speaking to Empire, the filmmaker revealed a little bit more info. This one is all about the horror of relationships, channelled through Tatiana Maslany’s Liz and Rossif Sutherland’s Malcolm, whose romantic trip into the woods goes awry. “There are certain hinges in any relationship. It’s our first time meeting the parents, it’s our first time [out] in the country. It just focuses on one of those, and it gets pretty ragged,” Perkins explains. Could it even be a bit of a creature feature? “Something lives at the cabin,” the director says. “Of course it does. It’s been there a minute, and it’s had its way with lots of people before it [has] its way with Liz and Malcolm.”
Beyond Keeper, Perkins already has his next project underway, the recently-announced The Young People. But for now – and for the second time in 2025 – get ready for another full-on Oz Perkins experience. “I’m taking the opportunity to examine, ‘What’s the worst version of a man in a relationship,’” he says, “‘and how does [Liz] bring her own stuff to it?’ I think that Keeper created an opportunity to find the monster in a relationship.” Time for that monster to come out.
Read Empire’s full Keeper story in the Wicked: For Good issue – on sale Thursday 25 September. Order a copy online here. Keeper comes to UK cinemas from 14 November.