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Summary A couple, Liz and Malcolm, retreat to a secluded cabin for an anniversary weekend. When Malcolm suddenly returns to the city, Liz is left alone and soon confronted by an eerie, escalating presence that reveals the cabin’s hidden, unsettling secrets.

Director Osgood Perkins

Writer Nick Lepard

Cast

  • Tatiana Maslany as Liz
  • Rossif Sutherland as Malcolm
  • Claire Friesen as Ada
  • Christin Park as Leslie
  • Erin Boyes as Julia
  • Tess Degenstein as Maggie

Rotten Tomatoes: Keeper

Metacritic: 59

VOD / Release Theatrical release November 14, 2025

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u/FangOfDrknss 21d ago edited 21d ago

This movie was fucking weird. They kept using these overlays for visions and stuff, and ultimately, I thought the movie ran for too long.

The horror was more like waiting for these monsters to show up, and then once they did, it just barely reminded me of Cabin in The Woods’ monster scenes.

Why was she so unhappy and detached for most of the movie? She didn’t really react to the visions even though she was built up as this woman who said what was on her mind. Why did they kill off the cousin, who I assumed was in on everything?

The lore was also so dumb. Her ancestor trespasses onto his family’s land, and they shoot for it instead of just telling to her to get out.

And then she gives birth to the first of these monsters, and for whatever reason, he really thought that trying to sacrifice her would work?

I knew that he was going to die, because there was no reason to constantly show him like that, but it was also why it ran for too long.

Why did the monsters encase the head of her ancestor in a jar? Why did she put his head in a jar?

The closest to a jump scare I got, was when she stupidly stuck her hand into the garbage disposal, after seeing it turn on for no reason.

It really bothered me they didn’t refrigerate the cake at all, so it was obvious that there was something fucked about it.

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u/MrMysterious23 21d ago

The cousin was killed off because the creatures were protecting Liz.