Keeper | Film Review

 

A woman (Tatiana Maslany) begins having terrifying visions while staying with her boyfriend (Rossif Sutherland) in a secluded cabin.

I didn’t know much about this film before putting it on, but I really like Tatiana Maslany, so to be honest her being in it, and it being a horror film, were the only reasons I watched it.

This film wasn’t great. There were parts of it that I liked, but the overall product had too many major flaws.

But I will say that the actors all do a really great job, particularly Maslany who was the absolute standout.

I was slightly apprehensive about the film when I heard who the director was – I’ve not been a fan of any of his previous movies, but that didn’t put me off. Unfortunately, this movie didn’t change my mind about his films.

There was a lot of great imagery and visuals that made things feel genuinely creepy, particularly the visions. But as interesting as the visions could have been, they were too frequent and made the story feel disjointed and all over the place.

The film didn’t evoke any emotions. I never cared about the characters, I never felt scared either for them or of them, I just felt nothing for the entire runtime.

It wasn’t written particularly well. The tone was odd in a negative way and it really didn’t help that everything moved really slowly. It had moments of interest in between long bland scenes.

The reveal was somewhat interesting but it wasn’t fleshed out enough. It gave us the ‘what’ but not the ‘why’, and the why was what I was most interested in learning about.

Overall, I didn’t hate this film, but it’s not one I’d re-watch or recommend. It had the bones of a good idea but not enough was put into it to make it as good as it could have been.

4/10