Horror fans have been eating well these past few weeks. Obsession and Backrooms turned into full-blown cinematic events, with Obsession going on to make over 200x its budget and becoming one of the most talked-about theatrical stories of the year. And most recently, Scary Movie just came along and resurrected the greatest horror-comedy franchise in history, and is currently sitting at #1 at the box office.
But the good news isn’t limited to cinemas. Horror is doing just as well on streaming, and one 2025 horror title is proof of that. The film comes from Osgood Perkins, the director behind Longlegs and The Monkey. He has quickly established himself as one of the most distinct voices working in horror today, and his latest folk horror movie was unanimously endorsed by some of the genre’s most respected figures. Guillermo del Toro called it “horror origami that skillfully folds into itself,” because it opens on a deceptively simple premise before slowly revealing layers of interlocking occult twists. James Wan described it as “a terrifying, ghostly descent into madness.”
That film is Keeper, and according to FlixPatrol, it is currently the #2 most popular movie on Hulu. Its success is not limited to the U.S. either. Internationally, it has cracked the Amazon Prime Video Top 10 in Brazil, Panama, and Uruguay. It also landed in the HBO Max Top 10 this week in several Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
Jason
Michael
Freddy
Pennywise
Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
Even the Greatest Horror Icons Couldn’t Save ‘Keeper’ From a 50% Score
Keeper follows Liz (Tatiana Maslany), a free-spirited artist, and her boyfriend Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) as they head to a secluded woodland cabin to celebrate their one-year anniversary. But in classic horror movie fashion, what begins as an intimate getaway slowly turns into something far more sinister as two-hundred-year-old secrets begin clawing their way to the surface. It is a slow burn in the truest sense, carrying the same dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere that Perkins perfected in The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Longlegs. For most audiences, though, it seems that vibe reads as a little too slow and a little too cold, because even endorsements from two of horror’s greatest living voices could not save it.
The film landed with a 50% critics’ rating and a 40% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and made just $6.2 million worldwide. But the streaming traction suggests Keeper is finally reaching the audience that should have found it in theaters. A rotten score is often the kiss of death for a horror film’s long-term reputation, but streaming has a way of rewriting those verdicts when the right viewers start circulating it. For horror fans who have already worked their way through everything currently in theaters, Keeper should be right at the top of their watchlist.
Keeper is available to stream on Hulu. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
