Things Heard & Seen

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Things Heard & Seen

2021

2h 1m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Catherine Clare (Academy Award®-nominee Amanda Seyfried) reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George (James Norton) lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property-and in her marriage to George.

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Critics Consensus

The terrors in Things Heard & Seen are overwhelmed by a banal and uninspired adaptation that fails to connect to its haunting source material.

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Audience Says

Its strong cast and solid start might make Things Heard & Seen two-thirds of a good movie; unfortunately, that final third sends the whole thing totally off the rails.

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Robert Levin

Newsday

It's all crushingly predictable, advancing along the expected lines without even the slightest hint of something extra or new.

Rated: 1/4

May 16, 2021

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Jocelyn Noveck

Associated Press

Well-cast and often entertaining but campy and sometimes obvious.

Rated: 2.5/4

May 12, 2021

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

"Please stop with the ghost stuff," a character asks in Netflix misfire Things Heard & Seen, a request the film is conflicted about.

Rated: 2/5

May 5, 2021

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Zach Pope

Zach Pope Reviews

Horror, Mystery, & All Star Cast! But does it all come Sometimes it does Sometimes it doesn’t This was a mixed bag over all

Jul 26, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

The movie advertised itself as an old-fashioned haunted house tale (check out the trailer to see what I mean). In reality it’s a fraught marriage story full of dark secrets and ugly revelations.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 17, 2022

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Jim Schembri

jimschembri.com

A rambling, unsatisfying, largely aimless semi-supernatural domestic drama...a truly half-baked affair that wastes an obviously talented cast.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 2, 2021

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Brian M.

2 hours of my life I will never get back. So anticlimactic it wasn’t even funny. Don’t waste your time.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/24/25

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andrea c

Film scadente sia nella regia che nella sceneggiatura; con un insieme di sottogeneri e di accenni totalmente confusionari e raffazzonati. Una casa con presenze di fantasmi dalle presenze ambigue e mal celate, una serie di personaggi dai dubbi propositi e soprattutto dalle azioni poco credibili; ma soprattutto una coppia di protagonisti che agisce in maniera totalmente illogica e a tratti fastidiosamente stupida. L'unico vero colpo di scena riuscito è la morte prematura della protagonista, uno lampo degno di novità e di interesse dell'intero film, con un finale ancora peggiore di quelle che sono le premesse.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/07/25

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Crockett H.

They really had me in the beginning, I felt like it was going well and then they threw it all away with that ending. Good idea, bad execution.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/27/25

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Rick D

It is rate to watch a movie that looks so promising for so long and then fails so miserably at the end. The cast is great. Seyfried is solid and the supporting cast (including F. Murray Abraham, Karen Allen, Rhea Seehorn) is terrific. James Norton does a terrific job as the loathsome husband, George. But the ending....it just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't fit on this movie. The movie feels a lot like What Lies Beneath, with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. I thought we were headed in a similar direction. But...no, not quite. I give the movie three stars for what it could have been, but I cannot recommend it. Watch the first 90 minutes and avoid the train wreck at the end.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/20/25

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Alejandra C

Lets just say, while watching i got distracted. Had to give it a second try but it was more to finish it and not because of the plot.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/06/25

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Connie L

I try not to engage in the book vs film dialogue, but this was a terrible adaptation. A character driven tragedy morphed into a cheap multigenerational ghost story. Poor use of usually excellent performers. Set design and photography were good. F. Murray Abraham was too old for the part; should never have been cast but he did a good job. James Norton is pretty good with an axe. This film could not have done anything for his career. Hope he was well paid. Amanda is a beautiful woman and she managed to look terrible throughout most of the film. Both the leads did their best. That ending. Gag.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/10/25

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Synopsis

Catherine Clare (Academy Award®-nominee Amanda Seyfried) reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George (James Norton) lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property-and in her marriage to George.

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Producer: Stefanie Azpiazu, Anthony Bregman, Julie Cohen, Peter Cron
Screenwriter: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, Robert Pulcini
Production Co: Likely Story
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 29, 2021
Runtime: 2h 1m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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