Not one of Osgood Perkin’s better films.

We begin with a montage of different women from different settings to the tune of Mickey and Sylvia’s “Love is Strange,” and ending with a few bloody screams. It’s funny because the teaser shown at the end of Osgood Perkin’s last film “The Monkey” was the only promotional thing I had the time and temperament to see, and it had that ghostly atmosphere. And when my sources couldn’t provide me with a critics screening of it, I knew something would be amiss. And I mean that in two ways, because this is a missed opportunity. Granted, there are some positive reviews, but I don’t have one for “Keeper.”

Perkins reunites with Tatiana Maslaney from “The Monkey” as Liz, who travels with her doctor boyfriend Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland, son of the late Donald Sutherland) into a cabin in the woods, which happens to be across the stream from his jerky cousin Darren (Birkett Turton). He’s the kind who would interrupt their dinner and insult his East European date Minka (Eden Weiss), while Malcolm would tell Liz he’s one of mankind’s greatest weaknesses.

Upon their stay so far, we see her unbeknownst to some strange things going on, like when she lies in a bathtub, someone or something breathes and draws a heart on the window. At night, she devours a chocolate cake like an animal (and she and Minka previously and respectively said: “The cakes tastes like sh*t”), and in the morning, she draws scared women. Malcolm asks if she’s okay, and she says: “Yeah.”

While her boyfriend has to unexpectedly deal with a patient in a coma in the city, she basically plays “Rear Window” regarding the other cabin and her binoculars. Then, she finds Minka inside the cabin with another tiny Minka. And so far, it’s just a dream. Or is it? Maybe it’s sometime kind of twisty realty, and the dead women from the film’s introduction has something to do with the cabin and its secrets.

But whatever the situation is, it’s explained in a soapy way. We kind of get the idea that it might have something to do with some kind of youth formula at the expense of women, but we don’t really know why. Just that the villain wants to live forever.

“Keeper” has a nice display of classic songs (including Elvin Bishop’s “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” playing during the end credits), some nice special effects for some scary creatures, and a haunting atmosphere, but coming from a horror filmmaker who gave us “Longlegs” and “The Monkey,” we expect a lot more from him. It all seems tedious and boring, and it doesn’t really go anywhere.

Watching Maslaney moping around the house being quiet made me think about Jennifer Lawrence displaying nearly the same features in “Die My Love,” which also played like a dream or reality. But that film was vibrant and curious about its choice of genre. We see that Maslaney is also trying to figure out what the strange goings on are, but we don’t really learn much from her or the dead women. It’s like Perkin’s heart wasn’t really there, and that the film doesn’t really care about them. I couldn’t even jot down notes about them, other than the montage I’ve mentioned above. And Darren does appear at the house, surprised that Liz is there and not Malcolm, and acting all strange with a knife, but then he disappears, and I don’t know why.

Maybe Perkins is seeing this movie a lot better than I am, and I’m happy for him. But he can do better and he will do better. “Keeper” is not a keeper.