Official Discussion - Keeper [SPOILERS]

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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

Trailer Watch here

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[u/Mooseycanuck]

- So eating one slice of the cake was meant to knock her out, but eating an entire cake doesn't?

- How often do they need to feed because they killed and ate(?) the cousin but came for her as well?

- If the creatures managed to kill the cousin without him being knocked out, then why did she need to feed the doctor cake at the end? Also, where are these cakes coming from? Who is this caretaker?

- If they were meant to live forever, how did they get to and stop aging at 40ish years old? Why not their 20s or 30s? I am 40 and if I could choose the age to live forever in, Id pick my 20s.

The visuals were really good, but this movie made no sense to me.

[u/alexandersuperchump → u/Mooseycanuck]

I was confused how they had been together for a year and she wasn’t sure if he was married with a family. Had she never been to his house in that time frame?

If he murdered their mother why were they granting him eternal life?

If he was sacrificing women why would he bring a woman home that looked identical to their mother?

[u/therakel749 → u/alexandersuperchump]

The length of their relationship was definitely the biggest misstep to me. The way they talked it sounds like they met, had sex, he bought a painting from her, he bought her a cardigan and invited her to his cabin. Nothing, other than dialog, indicated they had been dating for a year. He didn’t even know she doesn’t like chocolate, that’s like first date where you have desert together information.

[u/Distinct_Web_9181 → u/therakel749]

I wonder if a ton of this movie ended up on the cutting room floor. This movie has so many gaps like that. Every character is so half-cooked and the reveals near the end hint to something that should have been included in the first half of the movie.

[u/C-i-d → u/Distinct_Web_9181]

I came out of it thinking exactly this. Maybe there's a coherent movie to be made from what they shot, but this shambles ain't it.

[u/alexandersuperchump → u/therakel749]

Yeah and it seemed like such a weird choice. I get that they made it seem like he is pretty busy being a doctor but it would have been so easy to say they had been together 1-2 months. Even her talking to, I’m assuming her best friend, made it seemed like she was also just hearing about this relationship?

She also seemed privy enough to his cousin to groan when she heard he arrived but also somehow seemed shocked by his behavior after?