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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
Blood drips down from the floorboards overhead onto a man’s car and smacks his cheek as he tilts his head to look up. Terrified, the man grabs his daughter and charges off the property, while crows caw in the distance.
“Things Heard & Seen,” on Netflix as of April 29, 2021, tells the story of professor George Claire (James Norton) and his wife Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) who move into a haunted house in Chosen, New York with their daughter in the 1980s.
This show was based upon Elizabeth Brundage’s book “All Things Cease to Appear” from 2016. The spirit of the woman who had previously died in the house occupies the property, becoming a guardian angel.
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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