Oz Perkins has another movie coming out already? He must not sleep much—payback for all the frights he’s implanted into the brains of people who’ve watched his films, including The Monkey and Longlegs. His latest, Keeper, hits theaters this fall and looks to continue the trend, if this first teaser is anything to go by.
Very simple yet very eerie (and a bit easier to follow than the deliberately obscure Longlegs marketing was), Keeper shows us a succession of women. They’re smiling at the camera at first, happy to see whoever they’re looking at. Then, things change. They get uncomfortable. Hostile. Then the screaming starts.
Could it be a serial killer tale reinvented yet again, as Perkins did with Longlegs? The title suggests people being held against their will, and the teaser’s visuals suggest as much. Or something even more subversive and spooky?
Usually a plot summary accompanies the first teaser, but all we have to go on here is that Keeper is “a dark trip from Osgood Perkins,” and some freaky out-of-context song lyrics for the Peggy Lee fans out there: “You can’t holler down our rain barrel, you can’t climb our apple tree, I don’t wanna play in your yard, if you can’t be good to me.”
Oh, and the tag line is “You’re not right for this place.” Yikes! Keeper hits theaters November 14.