Things Heard & Seen is a Netflix film that brings to life the world of Elizabeth Brundage’s
All Things Cease to Appear and the alluring mystery of the Hudson River Valley. The setting for stories like
The Headless Horseman and other frightening tales, it’s always forcing people to wonder how this little area of New York seems to remain timeless.
Talking with writers and directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, they brought influences from their own time in the Hudson River Valley, as well as Brundage’s story, to life in a seemingly timeless movie with
Things Heard & Seen.
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Malice Domestic Norton and Seyfried play a couple whose marriage deteriorates in their creepy new home in this attempt at an arty scare flick. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming and not always easy to sort through. Certain people have a bottomless appetite for haunted-house stories, and Netflix knows I m one of them. But what really convinced me to watch the streaming service s latest glossy gothic was that its opening credits feature a slideshow of Hudson River School paintings, including Thomas Cole s four-part allegory
The Voyage of Life. I saw Cole s haunting series when I was a child at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, N.Y., and it shaped my view of life and death alike. At the time, my family were Manhattan transplants living in a remote, ramshackle farmhouse in upstate New York much