What Keeps You Alive
2018 · Movie · R · 99 min · ★ 5.8 · 73% critics
A married couple heads to a remote cabin by a lake to celebrate their first anniversary, expecting a peaceful getaway. Surrounded by mountains and isolation, the trip turns into a tense fight for survival as trust breaks down and danger closes in.
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Details
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-08-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 73/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (294 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, wilderness-set relationship thriller with bursts of brutality and a fast survival chase, similar in vibe to The Retreat; Not for you if frustrating decisions and plot holes ruin suspense.
Pros: tense cat-and-mouse thrills; beautiful wilderness scenery; solid lead performances | Cons: frustrating character choices; implausible plot turns; uneven final stretch
Themes
- canada
- lake
- psychopath
- married couple
- murder
- cottage
- wedding anniversary
- psychotic
- rowboat
Cast & crew
Hannah Emily Anderson
as Jackie
Brittany Allen
as Jules
Martha MacIsaac
as Sarah
Joey Klein
as Daniel
Charlotte Lindsay Marron
as Young Jackie
Directed by Colin Minihan