In terms of genre conventions, there’s some atmosphere and a few jump-scares thanks to the ghostly apparitions.
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I don’t despise this movie during the first act I felt gripped although this dissipates the further the plot goes and the more you learn. Thankfully, this film is a little different. Things Heard & Seen takes me back to my art history class in college which I hated with a passion. Set in 1980, the sets and costumes successfully evokes that period of time, but the plot and tone feels very much like a film from that era ( The Amityville Horror meets The Changeling) although it’s not as scary as either of these movies, instead resembling more of a drama than a horror, mystery or thriller thanks largely to the sedate pace and drab piano score.
Although devoid of pretentiousness, this concept feels very familiar and hackneyed. The film opens with a quote from Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (“This I can declare… things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world”) and although movies beginning with quotes can be pretentious, the inclusion of Swedenborg’s book in the film’s narrative means this isn’t the case. Streaming on Netflix from today, the movie stars Amanda Seyfried and James Norton as artist Catherine and her art history tutor hubby George, who with their daughter Franny relocate from Manhattan to a remote, run-down farm in the Hudson Valley (a property with history… cough, cough). Things Heard & Seen is a haunted house horror-mystery written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage.
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