Synopsis
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.
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Cast
- Amanda SeyfriedCatherine Claire
- James NortonGeorge Claire
- Natalia DyerWillis
- Alex NeustaedterEddie Vayle
- Rhea SeehornJustine
- Michael O'KeefeTravis Laughton
- Karen AllenMare Laughton
- Jack GoreCole Vayle
- F. Murray AbrahamFloyd DeBeers
- James UrbaniakBram
Recommendations
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
While there are the requisite number of jump scares and red-herring narrative fake-outs, Berman and Pulcini – who are odd fits in the first place, given their decidedly non-genre filmography – zig where you expect them to zag. - 75
The Film Stage
Offering plenty left to discuss and ponder by the film’s end, this is a haunted house thriller with a good deal on its mind. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Things Heard & Seen has the requisite horror-movie look (deep shades of brown and orange, low camera angles, repeated glimpses of effectively creepy paintings and haunting photographs, religious symbolism everywhere) and Norton in particular is a hoot as just the worst person in the world — but still, Things Heard & Seen should be neither of those things. - 50
IndieWire
Berman and Pulcini’s movie feels as if it’s more haunted by unrealized potential than anything else. - 50
The A.V. Club
Like many Netflix originals, Things Heard And Seen is the cinematic equivalent of a mass-market paperback, neither good enough to haunt the viewer nor bad enough to haunt the résumés of its cast and crew. - 50
Slant Magazine
Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night. - 50
IGN
I couldn’t help but feel like Things Heard & Seen would have been a much better film if they stripped away its ghostly elements in favor of everyday horrors that Pulcini and Berman nailed so effectively in its second act. - 50
Los Angeles Times
While the cast is great, the milieu is vivid, the images are polished and the atmosphere is effectively moody, Things Heard & Seen fails to connect on a visceral level.
