We’re pretty sure she was joking, but the Orphan Black and She-Hulk star did share some tantalizing details.
It was a canny and carefully crafted viral marketing campaign that made Osgood Perkins‘ Longlegs an absolute smash, propelling the director onto the horror A-list, so it comes as no surprise that the powers that be are taking a similarly teasing approach to spruiking Keeper, his upcoming film.
All we really know is that Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland (son of the late Donald, as it turns out) play a married couple away for the weekend at an isolated cabin. But when he’s unexpectedly called back to the city, she’s menaced by… something. Some thing. Some kinda thing.
Yes, this kinda mystery box marketing runs the risk of riding off the rails and becoming annoying rather than intriguing (it makes my job harder, that’s all I’m saying) but luckily Maslany and Perkins let a few details slip in a wide-ranging interview with Entertainment Weekly, which we can now glean for Keeper keepsakes.
For his part, Perkins describes Keeper as a “relationship horror”, a story where “…the relationship is the scary thing” before going on to say that the film addresses “…these hot-button topics like toxic masculinity or the patriarchy. You try to give it a shape in the way that horror passes through these eras where the monster is merely the shape of some bigger issue.”
While Maslany adds that, to her, it’s about “…the lies that we tell ourselves about ourselves and about our partners in order to stay there. “I don’t know how to word this without giving anything away, but the trap of the roles that we fall into and heterosexual expectations, I would say. Yeah, the horror of heterosexuality.”
She’s laughing when she says the last part, folks, so don’t go getting bent out of shape. If anything, it feels like Keeper might be a sort of companion piece to the recent Together, the Victoria-shot body horror flick that just had a limited release – although hopefully it’s a bit more transgressive and provocative than that.
Keeper is in cinemas from November 13.
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