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What Keeps You Alive
Directed by
Colin Minihan
R
2018
1h 39m
Thriller
,
Horror
5.7
82%
44%
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A young newlywed couple goes to an idyllic remote forest cabin to spend some quality time together.
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Cast of What Keeps You Alive
Hannah Emily Anderson
Jackie
Brittany Allen
Jules
Martha MacIsaac
Sarah
Joey Klein
Daniel
Charlotte Lindsay Marron
Young Jackie
Colin Minihan
Director / Writer / Producer
Ben Knechtel
Producer
Chris Ball
Producer
Kurtis David Harder
Producer
What Keeps You Alive Ratings & Reviews
olivia.ro5
April 11, 2025
Watched this movie years ago something in it really traumatised me but I kept watching cause weirdly I still liked the movie it I still think of this movie to this day
IndieWire
Jamie Righetti
Despite a few predictable beats, "What Keeps You Alive" offers plenty of effective jolts, helped along by the chemistry between leads Anderson and Allen.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Nonetheless, it's an entertaining and well-crafted effort from a resourceful indie team who've scored enough respectable base hits to date that one might reasonably expect them to deliver a home-run any time now.
Bloody Disgusting
Trace Thurman
A simultaneously terrifying and (intentionally?) humorous tale of betrayal.
Collider
Haleigh Foutch
The film could be sharper and tighter - ten minutes and at least four endings shorter - but the moments of success in What Keeps You Alive out-weigh the film's faults.
Den of Geek
Tony Sokol
What Keeps You Alive builds suspense with proper payoffs, but doesn't offer the kill shot. Jackie may have to do that herself as well.
ArtsATL
Steve Murray
The movie may have a couple of twists and logical lapses too many, but that's a minor drawback. Fair warning: If you're not a fan of nail-biting, bloody suspense, this thrill ride isn't for you.
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
In Minihan's script the question is not if violence will erupt; the question is when. The carefully placed red herrings in the first act tease that something is amiss, despite the fact that Jules and Jackie have an affectionate, playful relationship.
Film Threat
Matthew Passantino
What Keeps You Alive doesn't change the game but it has a little bit of fun while playing it.
Polygon
Mary Beth McAndrews
Rather, What Keeps You Alive is a practice of building tension and bending common horror tropes to create something refreshing.
Newsweek
Andrew Whalen
The dead center of the movie is a protracted rowboat chase no amount of thumping music can rescue. What Keeps You Alive barely picks up from there.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
Effectively eerie and unnerving.
NPR
Glen Weldon
As it's unfolding, What Keeps You Alive delivers on its promise and serves as yet another reminder that cabins in the woods are to hapless movie characters what sausage grinders are to livestock.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
This is the kind of movie where even knowing the genre might be considered a spoiler.
New York Times
Jason Zinoman
Colin Minihan, the writer and director of this stylish horror film, understands that what really matters in such genre entertainments is not what it is, but how it's done.
Village Voice
Matt Prigge
Spy vs. Spy by way of The Revenant, only better directed.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
The fake-endings and flimsy manipulations pile up, until the very last frame of the film - in which Minihan adds a sound cue likely to inspire derisive snorts from viewers who've gone with him thus far.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
This is a solid genre exercise, as most of Minihan's films have been, and the kind of thing you're likely to catch late at night on Shudder and wonder why more people didn't tell you about it before.
The Playlist
Kimber Myers
This isn't the first horror movie to exploit the isolation of its location, but Minihan sets his film apart from the pack with an audacious script and equally bold images to match.
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