Keeper (2025)

For their one-year anniversary, Malcolm takes his girlfriend Liz on a weekend trip to a secluded cabin in the countryside. Upon arrival, Liz finds a boxed cake in the cabin, which Malcolm claims is a gift from the caretaker. Their dinner is interrupted by the arrival of Malcolm's obnoxious cousin Darren, and Darren's European model girlfriend, Minka. Later, at Malcolm's insistence, Liz eats a slice of the cake, ignoring Minka's warning that it tastes awful.

Liz becomes haunted by strange visions of screaming, bloodied women and a pregnant woman who looks identical to her. At night, she is drawn to the cake and finishes it in one sitting, despite finding severed fingers inside.

In the morning, Minka is attacked by an unseen force while walking alone in the woods. Malcolm leaves to take care of a patient, but promises to come back that evening. While alone, Liz calls her friend Maggie, who offers to come collect Liz. Strange creatures begin to appear in the house and follow Liz. She encounters a ghostly apparition of Minka and a woman wearing a plastic bag over her head. Darren arrives and demands to be let inside despite Liz's reservations. She hides in the bathroom as he wanders around the house with a cleaver before being killed by unseen forces. Increasingly disturbed by the strange events around her, Liz tells Maggie to come get her, but cannot get a signal. When Malcolm returns, a distraught Liz says she wants to leave, but he calms her and convinces her to share a drink before they leave.

An increasingly suspicious Liz finds an old photograph of Malcolm with what appears to be his wife and daughters. Liz furiously confronts Malcolm and demands to be taken home. Malcolm reveals that 200 years ago, as adolescents, he and Darren encountered a pregnant woman—the one from Liz's visions—on their property and shot her in the leg. After she gave birth to the creatures, which have been appearing around Liz, Darren and Malcolm shot her in the head. They have spent the last 200 years feeding the creatures in exchange for an extended lifespan; the screaming women in Liz's visions are their past victims. He also explains that the cake was drugged and was intended to knock Liz out.

Malcolm locks Liz in the basement. She is surrounded by spirits, including the woman with the bag over her head, who removes it to reveal a face with multiple eyes, noses, and mouths. The creatures embrace Liz, recognizing her resemblance to their mother, whose head is preserved in a jar of honey. Liz both laughs hysterically and screams in horror. Meanwhile, Malcolm ages rapidly before being attacked by one of the creatures.

The following morning, an elderly Malcolm is hung upside down from a tree. Liz, her eyes now completely black like the creatures', approaches him and reveals that the creatures have asked her to stay with them. She forcefeeds him the drugged cake as he pleads to be freed and promises that he genuinely loves her. Liz coldly accuses him of lying, drowns him by dunking his head into a jar of honey, and walks away.