{"id":380219,"date":"2025-11-15T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380219\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:27:15","slug":"osgood-perkins-new-horror-movie-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380219\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgood Perkins’ New Horror Movie Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: <\/strong>This article contains major spoilers for Osgood Perkins<\/a>\u2018 \u201cKeeper<\/a>,\u201d now playing in theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector Osgood Perkins has given us not one, but two twisted horror movies this year that are vastly different but equally chilling: \u201cThe Monkey,\u201d a gory Stephen King adaptation that dropped in February, and \u201cKeeper,\u201d a haunted cabin thriller releasing in theaters this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tMuch like Perkins\u2019 past horror movies \u201cLonglegs\u201d and \u201cThe Blackcoat\u2019s Daughter,\u201d there\u2019s more going on in \u201cKeeper\u201d than just a couple camping out in a creepy cabin in the woods. The nature getaway soon takes a terrifying turn for Liz (Tatiana Maslany) and and her boyfriend Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland), as Liz begins seeing visions of undead spirits and Malcolm\u2019s true intentions are revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tNear the end of \u201cKeeper,\u201d it\u2019s revealed that Malcolm isn\u2019t actually a hard-working doctor, he\u2019s really an immortal manipulator who lures women to his cabin to sacrifice them in order to prolong his life. In a flashback 200 years ago, a young Malcolm and his cousin capture a mysterious pregnant woman who was trespassing on their land. She turns out to be some kind of witch who gives birth to a horde of monsters. In the years that follow, the creatures grant Malcolm and his cousin eternal life in exchange for the lives of women they bring to the cabin for them to feast on. That explains why Liz sees the visions of undead ghouls roaming the property, like a woman with a bloody bag over her head, a long-necked spirit and a white-faced monster spewing gunk from its mouth.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Liz doesn\u2019t succumb to Malcolm\u2019s evil plans for her. After revealing his true intentions, he locks her in the basement, where the monsters actually embrace Liz and don\u2019t tear her apart. In a twist, the pregnant woman 200 years earlier looked exactly like Liz, so the creatures view her as their mother. The monster with the bag over her head reveals her creepy face, which has multiple eyes and mouths, and calls herself Liz\u2019s child. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Malcolm wakes up the next morning, he suddenly has aged decades overnight. Liz, with the power of her spooky brood behind her, flips the script and captures him. She ties him upside-down and hangs him by his feet from a tree to dunk his head into a pot of honey. In the final shot, we see Liz\u2019s face, which has the same jet-black eyes as her newfound monster children. In the end, it wasn\u2019t the grotesque ghouls causing harm, it was actually the people inside the cabin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Osgood Perkins\u2018 \u201cKeeper,\u201d now playing in theaters. Director Osgood Perkins…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":380220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,65513,53,63864,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-380219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-keeper","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-osgood-perkins","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115552534332731368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}