What Keeps You Alive

Name: What Keeps You Alive
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: August 24, 2018
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Brittany Allen, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Hannah Emily Anderson, Joey Klein, Martha MacIsaac

2018

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: August 24, 2018 | NR

Starring: Brittany Allen, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Hannah Emily Anderson, Joey Klein, Martha MacIsaac

Summary: How much can you really know about another person? The unsettling truth that even those closest to us can harbor hidden dimensions drives this thrillingly unpredictable, blood-stained fear trip. Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen) are a couple celebrating their one year anniversary at a secluded cabin in the woodsHow much can you really know about another person? The unsettling truth that even those closest to us can harbor hidden dimensions drives this thrillingly unpredictable, blood-stained fear trip. Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen) are a couple celebrating their one year anniversary at a secluded cabin in the woods belonging to Jackie’s family. From the moment they arrive, something changes in Jules’ normally loving wife, as Jackie (if that even is her real name) begins to reveal a previously unknown dark side—all building up to a shocking revelation that will pit Jules against the woman she loves most in a terrifying fight to survive. [IFC Midnight]… Expand

Director: Colin Minihan

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: NR

Runtime: 98 min

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IndieWire Jamie Righetti

Aug 23, 2018

Despite a few predictable beats, What Keeps You Alive offers plenty of effective jolts, helped along by the chemistry between leads Anderson and Allen. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 23, 2018

Allen and Anderson are outstanding in roles that require a lot of levels and moods, as the central relationship goes from loving to shaky to … well, something else. Read full review

Katie Driscoll

Sep 6, 2018

What Keeps You Alive is a gorgeous rural revenge featuring two strong lead performances, a blood-stained, thicketed idyll, and some moments of dark humour – or cathartic victory – depending on how you view your current or past relationships. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Aug 24, 2018

Minihan’s stylish film taps into our deepest fear as women, queer folks, or survivors of domestic abuse that the person we love may be the reason we end up in a body bag. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Aug 21, 2018

What Keeps You Alive’s forthright quality feels refreshing, and Minihan’s craft is a major plus, too. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Aug 20, 2018

If Hannah Emily Anderson's performance was as fully imagined as Brittany Allen's, then What Keeps You Alive might have attained the emotional dimensions of a robust psychodrama. Read full review

John DeFore

Aug 23, 2018

Colin Minihan's What Keeps You Alive sets itself up promisingly enough before succumbing to a progression of implausibilities and excesses that test even this genre's lenient standards. Read full review

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MAX4D

Nov 16, 2020

The music, location and direction of the film are excellent. The story of the film is good but not great