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10th Feb2026

‘Keeper’ 4K UHD Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Birkett Turton, Eden Weiss, Claire Friesen, Christin Park, Erin Boyes, Tess Degenstein | Written by Nick Lepard | Directed by Osgood Perkins

Prolific horror specialist Osgood Perkins (Longlegs, The Monkey) is back with freaky cabin-in-the-woods horror, Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany, who’s rapidly becoming one of Hollywood’s best actresses. Experimental in tone and favouring atmosphere over plot, it’s a creepy and unsettling piece of work that’s somehow all the more effective for the way it side-steps narrative explanation.

Maslany plays Liz, an artist who has agreed to accompany her boyfriend Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland, son of Donald) to a remote but luxurious cabin for their one-year anniversary weekend. There are no immediate red flags in the relationship, but given that the film opened with a first-person-POV-camera montage of women flirting with someone and then screaming and covered in blood, we know this probably isn’t going to end well.

Perkins gets excellent mileage from keeping the audience in suspense as long as possible as to what’s actually going on. The prologue points towards Malcolm being a serial killer, but is that the case? Maybe the real killer is Malcolm’s weird cousin Darren (Birkett Turton), who apparently lives nearby and has his own keys to the cabin.

At one point, Malcolm offers Liz a slice of chocolate cake, which Liz has been told “tastes like shit” by Darren’s near-silent Eastern European girlfriend Minka (Eden Weiss) when they dropped round unannounced earlier. Despite not liking chocolate, Liz eats the cake anyway, and it apparently tastes fine, but then in the middle of the night, she gorges on the rest of it, and it appears to give her hallucinations.

From that point on, Liz is in a sort of fugue state. Are the creepy figures she half-glimpses and occasionally hears around the house real, or just in her drugged-cake-fuelled imagination? When Malcolm, a surgeon, is dragged away to work for a day, Liz is left on her own in the cabin, and things get creepier and creepier, especially when she starts getting visions of the murdered women we saw in the prologue.

Throughout Keeper the atmosphere is both claustrophobic (almost all the action takes place within the cabin) and deeply unsettling. To that end, Perkins effectively dispenses with traditional jump scares in favour of a number of expertly timed ‘What the f- -k was that?’ moments, as things move in the background of shots or on the periphery.

The film is beautifully shot throughout, courtesy of cinematographer Jeremy Cox, who makes the most of the gorgeous cabin-based production design, exploiting various angles for suspense and tension. Similarly, the sound design is excellent, significantly heightening the already creepy atmosphere.

As for Maslany, she’s utterly brilliant, as usual, delivering a haunting performance that will stay with you after the credits roll. Accordingly, she gives Liz a touching vulnerability and a dash of dry humour, but also a dreamy, faraway quality that comes into its own once the chocolate cake is consumed.

There’s also strong support from Sutherland and Turton, while Weiss makes a strong impression in her few brief moments on screen, particularly when she shows up in one of the weirder hallucinations.

Keeper has been newly transferred to 4K Ultra HD in 2160p, with an accompanying Blu-ray presentation in 1080p, both framed in the film’s original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Audio options include an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track alongside an English 2.0 Dolby Digital mix, while subtitle support is provided in English SDH, Spanish, and French.

On Ultra HD, Keeper looks and sounds superb. The image is crisp, clean, and free from any noticeable digital artefacts, while the audio comes through clearly with no discernible anomalies. In short, this is a rock-solid transfer that does full justice to the film. The set is spread across two discs and includes a small selection of bonus features, including:

Special Features:

Audio commentary with Osgood Perkins
Teaser and Trailer

While Perkins’ commentary offers some worthwhile insight into the film’s creation, the overall extras package feels decidedly thin. Beyond the promotional material, there’s little here to dig into, which is disappointing for a 4K release. Interviews, featurettes, or behind-the-scenes material would have gone a long way toward making this edition feel more fully featured.

In short, Keeper is an intriguing blend of serial killer suspense thriller and folk horror that further confirms Perkins as a distinctive new voice in horror cinema. Audiences who like everything explained to them might want to stay away, but for everyone else, this is a superbly directed chiller that provides plenty of nightmare fuel.