Rolling Stone ‘Things Heard & Seen’: Haunted by Ghosts, and Many, Many, Many Other Ghost Stories
Amanda Seyfried must contend with a haunted house and some recognizably human monsters in a gothic tale filled with things you’ve heard and seen before
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There are ghosts that haunt the houses of New York’s Hudson Valley, we’re told early on in
Things Heard & Seen (now streaming on Netflix) the spirits of former owners who may have unfinished business in this realm, or who may be protecting new occupants from possible danger, or who may be right evil bastards waiting to inspire the living to embrace their own inner darkness. The residents of the region, at least in the early 1980s, seem to accept this as a fact of life; some even view it as a perk. And they all know about the Vayle place, which has just been purchased by a young married couple: George Claire (James Norton), a recent addition to the local private liberal-arts col
Heâs the most malevolent force in what technically qualifies as a haunted house film, an oddly angled inflection on the mini-genre in which the intrusive specters may have plans of their own and death may not be the worst thing in the world. Catherine feels like a hostage in her own home, and though the ominously buzzing night-lights and hallucinations of bloodied mutant fetuses in the kitchen sink drain arenât helping her fragile mental state, theyâre not the real sources of menace in her life. Like a trusted confidante urging her out of a bad relationship, the supernatural elements complement and comment upon the primary plot thread of her curdling marriage, rather than terrorizing for their own sake. She begins the film in thrall of his toxic influence, internalizing his offhanded criticisms and expelling them in the form of bulimia during her first scene. By the conclusion, sheâs achieved a grisly form of freedom.
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