![]() ![]() It’s with each passing moment or chance he gets, where George can social climb, and it becomes obvious that this is not a man anyone wants to be involved with. He also uses his slimy charm to seduce a local woman working at the horse stable by the name of Willis ( Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer). Then there is George, using his professor status and good looks to become popular with women at school. Catherine sparks a friendship with neighbor and hired hand Eddie Vayle (Alex Neustaedter), which creates obvious sexual tension. ![]() The screenplay is also intriguing, with the temptation of fidelity testing both husband and wife to reveal their true selves. ![]() One evident part of Things Heard & Seen is that it’s a well made film, with ominous shifts in the settings, with cinematographer Larry Smith doing a strong job with camera angles and revealing figures in mirrors. As time passes, Catherine and George attempt to become closer with neighbors, members of the staff at the college, and portray the image of a happy home. Lights flickering, odd smells coming from the garage, and a possible spirit watching over them. They arrive at their old cottage home, in need of some fixing, and on the first night spooky things occur. The decision to move upstate has arrived because George recently accepted a position to teach at a small college called Whiton, and although there’s been that early marital divide, Catherine feels she owes it to her husband to go where he wants. Any of that good fortune is ruined when the final result is a highly messy horror movie.Īmanda Seyfried (off her recent Oscar nomination for Mank) plays Catherine Claire, an artist and mother of one, struggling her own fight with bulimia, and living in New York City with husband George (James Norton). The build up in Things Heard & Seen is thrilling and a haunting idea of how a loved one can conceal themselves in plain sight. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulchini directed and co-wrote the screenplay, based on Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear, in a mixture of marital discourse, hidden family secrets, and evil spirits lurking at night. It also begins to reveal itself that the husband might not be the person we initially thought he was. In Things Heard & Seen, there’s plenty of positives in the first hour and thirty minutes, a movie set in 1980, about a married couple that moves to the New York countryside, and when they get there, they start to notice that their new home might be haunted by spirits. There is nothing more disappointing than a movie that does a lot of good things and then completely botches the ending. MURRAY ABRAHAMĭIRECTED BY: SHARI SPRINGER BERMAN, ROBERT PULCHINIĪ’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) STARRING: AMANDA SEYFRIED, JAMES NORTON, RHEA SEEHORN, NATALIA DYER, KAREN ALLEN, F. ![]()
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