Unrelated to 2025 video game and 2006 Sarah Langan novel of same name, folk horror is written by Nick Lepard and directed by Osgood Perkins.
Oh, three different films called The Keeper exist.
Tatiana Maslany - Liz
Rossif Sutherland - Malcolm
Birkett Turton - Darren
Eden Weiss - Minka
Summary
For their one-year anniversary, Malcolm (doctor) and Liz (painter) arrive at a secluded cabin in the woods for a romantic weekend getaway.
Liz finds a boxed cake which Malcolm claims was gifted by the caretaker.
His cousin Darren and girlfriend Minka unexpectedly show up and after a quiet chat with Malcolm, they soon go.
After sampling a slice of cake at Malcolm's insistence, Liz begins having strange visions and later, inexplicably eats the rest.
When Malcolm is called away to treat a patient, Liz is left alone, but not for long.
Fish on the hook
When Liz tries the cake, she reacts by saying:
"Tastes like shit."
How ironic, as this literally was.
Despite a committed performance by Maslany, I was really bored.
In the final 20 minutes, we get the big reveal.
200 years ago, Malcolm and Darren as teenagers, caught a pregnant woman trespassing on their property and locked her in a pigpen, where she gave birth to the humanoid creatures stalking Liz. They shot her dead and ever since, have been luring women to feed the creatures who in exchange, granted them immortality.
Those expecting a proper explanation will be sorely disappointed.
In the basement, the 'children' surround and embrace Liz due to her resembling mother, whose head has been preserved inside a jar of honey.
The following morning, a now elderly Malcolm has been strung upside-down from a tree. Liz (now with black eyes), forcibly feeds him cake and drowns him in another jar of honey.
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