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What Keeps You Alive

Country: Canada, Language: English, 98 mins

  • Director: Colin Minihan
  • Writer: Colin Minihan
  • Producer: Chris Ball; Kurtis David Harder; Ben Knechtel; Colin Minihan

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Jackie and her wife Jules are celebrating their anniversary in a lakeside cabin. But something’s very, very wrong. A riveting rural psycho-thriller and SXSW Midnighter selection.

The latest film by multitalented genre maven Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, 2011) takes familiar horror-thriller ingredients and forges them into a story that upends convention and expectation. There’s the happy couple skipping off for a romantic weekend in the wilderness. Then there’s the old family cabin with its history and secrets. And of course the neighbours across the lake seem to know…something. Minihan’s cleverly crafted screenplay then rearranges everything into a pulse-pounding tale in which untamed landscape and raw emotion become inextricably linked. This compelling study in primal fear features knockout central performances by Hannah Emily Anderson and Brittany Allen.


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Cast & Characters

Hannah Anderson as Jackie;
Brittany Allen as Jules;
Martha MacIsaac as Sarah;
Joey Klein as Daniel