Podcast: ‘Keeper’ Gets Uncertified

Let's kick things off with a fun fact: we launched our Uncertified series – bite-sized reviews of new releases – in the summer of 2024, and somehow, we've been able to talk about three Osgood Perkins movies on the podcast in the last 18 months. The man is nothing if not prolific, but can the cofounders of Certified Forgotten maintain their tenuous mutual respect of Perkins with Keeper, or will Certified Forgotten once more be a house divided? All will be revealed with this week's podcast episode.

After a run of bad relationships, Liz (Tatiana Maslany) is looking forward to celebrating her one-year anniversary with Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) away from the big city. Only letting down your guard is harder than it looks. At first, Liz chalks up her discomfort to little things – the creaks the roof makes as it settles at night, or the way voices carry through the vents across the building. But then things escalate – Liz is frightened by Malcolm’s creepy cousin Darren (Logan Pierce), and the food left out by the caretaker causes Liz to begin hallucinating strange people on the property. Before the weekend is over, Liz will find out for herself how well she really knows this man. Written by Nick Lepard, Keeper is the second of Osgood Perkins’s two horror films in 2025.

In this short excerpt from the episode, Matthew Monagle explains why the sparseness and the lack of detail in Perkins's films is part of what makes them resonate so hard for him as a viewer.

The reason that I respond so much to Osgood Perkins is because I don't think there's any filmmaker working today that so can so thoroughly capture the feeling that something is just wrong. Osgood Perkins makes films where his characters and his audience know that something's off.

The Keeper episode of the Certified Forgotten podcast is now available to stream on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, or the podcast platform of your choice.