The Associated Press
This image released by Netflix shows Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP)
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 a Swedenborgian thriller and thus it’s not a bad idea to read up a bit on the man, by which we mean to Google him, before diving into “Things Heard & Seen,” a well-cast and often entertaining but campy and sometimes obvious thriller starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton.
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If there s one thing that Netflix s Things Heard & Seen shows, it is that the exploration in the horror genre is far from over.
Based on the Elizabeth Brundage novel All Things Cease to Appear , the film follows George Claire (James Norton), Catherina Claire (Amanda Seyfried) and their little girl Franny Claire (Ana Sophia Heger), who live a comfortable life in New York.
Soon, George announces that he s landed a job as a professor in Saginaw University, a small private college at an upstate place called Chosen. They move into a big house at Chosen that looks extremely creepy and is a hundred years old at least.
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
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.
2021/04/29 07:06 This image released by Netflix shows Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows James Norton, left, and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows James Norton, left, and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows James Norton, left, and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP)
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!