Jocelyn Noveck
April 28, 2021 - 4:06 PM
Hollywood thrillers in which sophisticated, attractive city folk move to creaky old country homes and experience scary things are a dime a dozen. Less common is when those Hollywood thrillers are based on the theology of 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
But here we are â a Swedenborgian thriller â and thus itâs not a bad idea to read up a bit on the man, by which we mean to Google him, before diving into âThings Heard & Seen,â a well-cast and often entertaining but campy and sometimes obvious thriller starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton.
What youâll learn is that Swedenborg believed (among other things) that death was just a continuation of life â and that people lived on, in the spiritual world, past the expiration of their physical body. For the filmâs purposes, weâll boil it down for you: Ghosts!