THE FUSE

I tend to shy away from the term if I can, but there’s no denying that Keeper, the new movie directed by Osgood Perkins (“Longlegs,” “Monkey”), is an experimental horror film. That’s what’s good about it, and also what’s not so good about it. In theory, making an experimental movie is a bold creative act (though I wouldn’t score their success rate at too high a percentage). Two years ago, there was a radical experimental horror film that was nothing short of amazing — Kyle Edward Ball’s “Skinamarink,” which used a fragmentary narrative to touch the uncanny.