A Twisted Tackle Weapons' Modern Storytelling

The new trailer for Osgood Perkins’ latest horror movie Keeper cleverly tailored one of many cleverest concepts from the current horror blockbuster that took the field workplace by storm. The mysterious upcoming psychological horror stars Tatiana Maslany (The Monkey) and Rossif Sutherland (Orphan: First Kill) as a pair that discovers the sinister historical past behind their secluded getaway cabin on an anniversary journey.

Keeper has adopted within the footsteps of Osgood Perkins 2024 shock horror hit Longlegs in revealing little or no in regards to the film’s plot through teaser and trailer releases. A burgeoning pattern in horror is to take care of narrative secrecy till audiences are within the theater, as was additionally the case with Zach Cregger’s newest horror smash hit, Weapons.

Nonetheless, the most recent trailer for Keeper borrows a distinct tactic from Weapons that maintains the thriller. In actual fact, it would truly create extra questions than it solutions, and definitely will increase the intrigue sparked by the movie’s eerie first teaser. Regardless of solely being two minutes lengthy, the latest Keeper trailer makes use of a storytelling system straight out of Weapons to nice impact.

Keeper’s Trailer Places A Twist On Weapons’ Identical Occasions, Completely different Views Tactic

A defining attribute of the box office juggernaut Weapons was its fractured narrative: an identical timeframe and sure occasions within the small city of Maybrook have been retold from the angle of six totally different characters. Naturally, there are some inconsistencies between the views, as characters understand minor parts of occasions in a different way.

The Keeper trailer adopts the idea of telling the identical story from differing views, however takes it a step additional. Within the trailer, we see what’s introduced as an identical timeframe and related unraveling of horrors from the angle of Maslany’s character, Liz, full along with her internal monologue. Then, we’re introduced with Malcolm’s (Sutherland) internal monologue, which is similar in script however backed with fully totally different visible horrors.

Osgood Perkins’ Directorial Filmography – Key Particulars
Film	Launch Date	RT Tomatometer Rating	RT Popcornmeter Rating
The Blackcoat’s Daughter	2015	77%	52%
I Am the Fairly Factor That Lives within the Home	2016	59%	24%
Gretel & Hansel	2020	63%	23%
Longlegs	2024	86%	61%
The Monkey	2025	77%	55%

What this does proper from the start is set up that Keeper follows two fully unreliable narrators. We do not know whose model of the story that unfolds solely through staggered photographs is the “right” model, and the heavy implication is that neither of them are. In Weapons, we see peculiar, albeit reasonable, occurrences from totally different views, whereas the Keeper trailer implies that neither perspective is predicated in actuality.

It is too early to say for sure whether or not the shifting perspective system will happen throughout the film itself, as was the case with Weapons, or if it is only a mechanism for the trailer. Even when Keeper would not make the most of the variable storytelling ways all through the film, its use within the first full trailer is the right solution to construct intrigue and thriller for what seems to be like a haunting psychological horror story.