Review: Marriage is scary in horror tale Things Heard and Seen
Amanda Seyfried and James Norton play a couple whose life turns spooky in slow burn Netflix ghost story
Adam Graham
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A Manhattan couple moves to a farm community in upstate New York in Things Heard & Seen, and when an acquaintance reminds them they re in Headless Horseman country, it s not surprising that those things heard and seen aren t going to be puppy dogs and rainbows.
But this slow burn drama is just as much a character study as it is a ghost story. It doesn t have jump scares a la the Conjuring movies or loud crashes like the Insidious chapters, but it s an intriguing story about a faltering marriage and a house built on a foundation of lies, with the spirit world lingering just within reach.
the hospital. and i could see that there was somebody next to me who had a terrible shoulder wound and i could see expose bone and they were putting antiseptic right on it and he was screaming. and then i woke up in a hospital bed. i can remember seeing cats running by, i mean it was not it was not set up for this at all. but there was this wonderful french woman, claire, she was sort of keeping tabs on me and she had a cell phone and asked me if i wanted to call anybody. so i called my parents, who were obvious obvious obvious
was there to save us and pull us to shore. i don t believe in clai clairvoyant i, but the fact that i knew what it was, and the fact that i took a deep breath, i do believe it saved my live. my surgeon told me that i probably wouldn t walk normally again, my days of high heels were over because i had nerve damage in my leg. you know what? he was wrong. i walk just fine, i wear high heels all the time. and i lead a very, very normal life. i am married, i have two small children. my daughter s name is catherine claire, after claire who helped me in the hospital a.
obviously frantically worried. claire said i m just going to talk to your parents for a minute and she took the phone away from me and walked away and i found out later, you need to come, you need to come now, she s in a lot of danger, you need to get her out. your wife is lying there, most likely with internal bleeding, in a hospital with no medication and no way of helping you. finally i think about two, 2 1/2 days it took before we were medically evacuated up to bangkok and the first thing they did was give mandy morphine and it was 2 1/2 days and she was finally out of pain. we ended up finding out from marcus that, he found all of his family alive, all in different hospitals, so it was just an absolute miracle. when i am in the hospital in khao lak, i didn t know that at that very time, my friends and family are looking for me. and sent, actually, a helicopter