Review: Netflix s haunting Things Heard & Seen proves that Amanda Seyfried is the scream queen we deserve theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MOVIE REVIEW by Richard Roeper THINGS HEARD & SEEN Two stars Catherine ... Amanda Seyfried George .... James Norton
Netflix presents a film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. No MPAA rating. Running time: 121 minutes. Available April 29 on Netflix.
The tagline for the 1979 stupid-scary movie The Amityville Horror was, FOR GOD S SAKE, GET OUT! which could be the slogan for just about every horror film in which a family moves into a large and usually remote property that has a mysterious and haunted history, and yet they continue to stay in the home long after anyone with a brain would realize they should cut their losses and run for their lives.
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.