If you’re a young married couple that finds a deal that is too good to be true on a farmhouse from the 19th century in a small town, then maybe you understand that evil is afoot and you should say no. Alas, the couple in “Things Heard & Seen” eagerly move into the house only to find the darkness that lives inside.
Horror movies have taught people a number of things. And one of the first lessons is that you should never willingly move into an incredibly old house that is super creepy and “just needs a coat of paint.” But in “Things Heard & Seen,” Amanda Seyfriend plays a young woman that does just that. And surprise, surprise, the house is haunted and there was some tragic death that happened more than 100 years ago in that very house.
Joining Seyfried in the cast are James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Alex Neustaedter, Rhea Seehorn, Michael O’Keefe, Karen Allen, Jack Gore, F. Murray Abraham, James Urbaniak, and Ana Sophia Heger. “Things Heard & Seen” is written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who are probably best known for their film “American Splendor.” Their last feature is the 2015 film, “Ten Thousand Saints.”
“Things Heard & Seen” debuts on Netflix on April 29. You can watch the full trailer below.
Here’s the 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.