Things Heard & Seen

Directed by Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman

Not Rated

April 29, 2021 2hHorror, Thriller,

5.339%23%5.7

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A Manhattan artist relocates her young family to a historic hamlet in the Hudson Valley. As she settles into a new life, she begins to suspect that her marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals her new home's history. Based on the acclaimed novel by Elizabeth Brundange..

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Cast of Things Heard & Seen

Amanda SeyfriedCatherine Claire
James NortonGeorge Claire
Natalia DyerWillis
Alex NeustaedterEddie Vayle
Rhea SeehornJustine
Michael O'KeefeTravis Laughton
Karen AllenMare Laughton
Jack GoreCole Vayle
F. Murray AbrahamFloyd DeBeers
James UrbaniakBram
Ana Sophia HegerFranny Claire
Charlotte MaierPeg
Kristin GriffithAudrey Claire
Ben GraneyHusband #2
Molly JobeWife #1
Joey AuzenneHusband #1
Kelcy GriffinLynne
Cotter SmithTom Claire
Dan DailyPat
Maureen YoungBlind Woman
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Things Heard & Seen Ratings & Reviews

jackmeatSeptember 14, 2025
My quick rating - 5.2/10. Time to let shuffle decide, I only picked the horror genre. I saw the Netflix logo, but I have no idea if it is still playing on there. Oh, and a best-selling book as well. I have to assume that the book was far better than this was. Especially the ending, which massively detracted from a decent slow-burn ghost story they were concocting. Which is part of the issue here. I have no idea why they even bothered trying to make it a ghost story. It never gets fully explored, and the characters' issues with one another throughout were doing just fine without the low-quality effects specters occasionally seen. They didn't look any better than a TV movie from 30 years ago. We have a woman (Amanda Seyfried) who relocates with her hubbie (James Norton) for work reasons but begins to think there are some dark issues going on in their marriage. Seyfried is actually quite good in her role here, while Norton I thought the exact opposite. Now, this is where it gets muddled since they could've stuck with that and delivered on the acting and story. But then they mixed in the history of the house. Now I am always up for a good haunting, so I was game, except they never used it to the potential it had. An occasional description from a neighbor or something in a picture that correlates to an old story. Things like this are sprinkled in and then forgotten. She is a bolemiac? Naw, forget that having any significance. Affairs? Just quick eye candy, no development on that. Just a lot of lazy screenwriting. There are some subtle hints to a deeper haunting that I may have picked out, like the cross in the photo or the slideshow error in class. Not really spoilers, more something to watch for, since I am not sure if that has anything to do with the plot as a whole. But I am willing to bet these clues made more sense in the story that was told in the book. Maybe with this complete letdown of an ending, those hints were just unused material like those few things I just mentioned. But it looks nice for the scenery, as expected on a Netflix budget, it just doesn't deliver much more than an average story with an ending that is like a massive gut punch.

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