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It’s rare that a film starts as bad as this one does and still manages to stick the landing.
Things Heard & Seen begins as a typical haunted house story riddled with cliches but somewhere along the way, the film finds a hold in the power of fate, destiny, and justice outside the law. This film from Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini is less horror and more spirituality, where the ghosts are the least of our worries.
George (James Norton) and Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) move to the Hudson Valley with their young daughter Franny (Ana Sophia Heger) into a large house from the 1800s. Naturally, it has a bloody history involving the original owners of the house and the most recent owners, the Vayle family, whose lone survivors, Eddie (Alex Neustaedter) and Cole (Jack Gore), get hired by Catherine to tend to the house and land. Corny horror tropes plague the first half of this film, with little to no tension before the hauntings start. Electricity flickers, ghostly lights float through the air, sticking a hand down the sink yields nasty results—it’s all predictable, and yet it persists.