Film Review – Keeper

Writer/director Osgood Perkins is working fast these days, and perhaps for good reason. He scored a major hit in 2024’s “Longlegs,” blessed with a slick marketing campaign to bring big screen chills to the summer season. The feature worked for some viewers, and Perkins was right back at it in last winter’s “The Monkey,” reviving his love of slow-burn creepiness in a Stephen King adaptation that worked for, well, less viewers. Perkins isn’t wasting any time once again, returning with his second release of 2025 in “Keeper,” which continues his career obsessions with macabre imagery, screen stillness, and shock value, only he’s really in no hurry to offer much of anything this time around. “Keeper” is a small picture, sticking mainly to one location, and it’s not effective as a chiller, finding the helmer essentially repeating himself with another ineffective, glacially paced nightmare. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com