Keeper stars Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland in a cabin-in-the-woods style horror movie. Liz and her boyfriend Malcolm are going to his family’s cabin for a weekend away.

Keeper begins with four pretty women in various time periods looking like they are in love. Then we see them covered with blood and screaming. We move to modern day and the beautiful cabin in the woods. Lovely furniture, lots of windows, several floors. It looks great but it feels creepy.

That creeping sense of dread about the cabin slowly (very slowly) is the primary action of the movie. Liz begins to either dream or hallucinate women who seem to haunt the place. BTW, if you like yelling at the screen during horror movies, please tell Liz not to eat the cake.

Everything that happens is imbued with suspicion and dread. Malcolm’s irritating brother (Birkett Turton) from next door shows up with a woman he introduces as Minka (Eden Weiss). He claims she speaks no English but as soon as he leaves the room with Malcolm, she speaks to Liz in English.

Minka is seen later out in the woods trying to get an Uber and get out of there. Something happens to stop her.

Malcolm claims he needs to return to the city to see to a patient (he’s a doctor). Liz stays at the cabin alone and more strange and creepy noises, shapes, and ghostly women appear. Now Liz wants to get out of there!

Malcolm returns and is surprised to find Liz still there and still alive. Liz questions him about the series of apparitions she’s seen in the cabin.

In a very long monologue of exposition, Malcolm explains the lore of the cabin and why Liz is there. His plans for her are not pleasant. But he loves her so that makes him a nice guy (according to him).

The most interesting thing about Keeper is the twist at the end. I loved that.

I love Tatiana Maslany’s brilliant face which can look 17 different ways from terrified to sexy to deranged in the time it takes to breathe once. If you need a reason to watch this not-very-horrifying horror movie, Tatiana Maslany is the reason. I’ve mentioned her in about 80 different posts on this blog. You could say I’m a fan.

The film is still in theaters at this time. Osgood Perkins directed.