“Monkey” Director Talks Next Film “Keeper”

He had “Longlegs” out last Summer which was a critical and commercial success. He has “The Monkey” in cinemas this weekend which appears to be doing well both in reviews and box office.Now filmmaker Osgood Perkins has yet another film on the way and it has been announced as coming out before year’s end as NEON reportedly has set an October 3rd release for the new film.

Titled “Keeper,” the single-location horror feature stars “Orphan Black” and “She-Hulk” star Tatiana Maslany and is a movie Perkins dubs “intimate, small, weird”.(function (d, s, b) {var mElmt, primisElmt = d.createElement('script');primisElmt.



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primis.tech/live/liveView.php?s=113101', 'widgetLoaded');Speaking with THR, he says the project was shot out of necessity as production on “The Monkey” had stalled due to the WGA strike.

They wanted to keep working so they found Nick Lepard – a Canadian writer who wasn’t a Writers Guild writer – to pen the script along with Canadian actors who would wave their SAG status and work as Canadians. He says:“We formed this movie called ‘Keeper’ out of nothing, and we just kept working. We did it fast and on the fly.

We did it with a lot of trust and good faith.”Shot outside Vancouver, Maslany loved working with Perkins so much that she agreed to also star in “The Monkey” which was shooting just days later. Perkins says: “We wrapped that movie [Keeper] on a Friday, and on the following Monday, we were in the offices of ‘The Monkey’.

That’s just the way it went.”Maslany and Rossif Sutherland play a married couple who must contend with a sinister force at their remote cabin getaway, effectively “Marriage Story” meets “Evil Dead”:“It’s a single-location, cabin-in-the-woods horror film, but it’s really a relationship horror movie. It starts with, ‘Oh, we’re going to his country house for the first time,’ and then suddenly, things go off the rails.

”The 51-year-old Perkins, son of “Psycho” actor Anthony Perkins, says he’s pretty exhausted having shot three films essentially back-to-back but tells the trade: “I have three good movies, so that’s fine.”The post “Monkey” Director Talks Next Film “Keeper” appeared first on Dark Horizons..