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arlier this year, Netflix released a star-studded promotional campaign gloating about its upcoming release schedule: The streaming giant would be dropping at least one new feature film every week for the rest of 2021. Take
that, movie theaters! That s all well and good, but Netflix has become almost notorious for its quantity-over-quality release practices. Save for a handful of Oscar-winning prestige projects, the Netflix library is starting to resemble one of those bargain DVD bins you might find in the back corner of a 7-11. For every
Roma or
Cloverfield Paradoxes or unwatchable Adam Sandler comedies. So I want to look at the studio s recent success rate: Is the Netflix machine producing any worthwhile art, or is it all fodder for the mill? Let s look at five of their most recent releases.
Things Heard & Seen Faces the Horrors of Privilege and Gaslighting Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Starring Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn
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Calling Amanda Seyfried s character in
Things Heard & Seen a nervous-wife type would be to misread this multifaceted character. Nothing like the meek, saccharine mother archetype we re used to seeing in the many adaptations of the
Amityville murders or in the
Conjuring films, Seyfried s Catherine Claire is a charming, angry, endlessly relatable woman who is haunted firstly by her husband and secondly by her house. This upturning of a tired trope is a guiding theme in
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It’s rare that a film starts as bad as this one does and still manages to stick the landing.
Things Heard & Seen begins as a typical haunted house story riddled with cliches but somewhere along the way, the film finds a hold in the power of fate, destiny, and justice outside the law. This film from Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini is less horror and more spirituality, where the ghosts are the least of our worries.
George (James Norton) and Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) move to the Hudson Valley with their young daughter Franny (Ana Sophia Heger) into a large house from the 1800s. Naturally, it has a bloody history involving the original owners of the house and the most recent owners, the Vayle family, whose lone survivors, Eddie (Alex Neustaedter) and Cole (Jack Gore), get hired by Catherine to tend to the house and land. Corny horror tropes plague the first half of this film, with little to no tension before the hauntings start. Electricity flickers, ghostly lig
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Things Heard And Seen ending explained: What happens?
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AMANDA Seyfried continues to prove she is one of the more versatile actresses in Hollywood, the former Mamma Mia star shines in Netflix s latest horror/drama hybrid Things Heard And Seen.
The Netflix film packs a star-studded cast, with Little Women s James Norton and Stranger Things Natalia Dyer joining Seyfried for the haunting thriller.
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