Things Heard and Seen

Things Heard and Seen is a 2021 American horror-thriller film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It stars Amanda Seyfried and James Norton. It was released on April 29, 2021, by Netflix, and received mostly negative reviews from critics and was unanimously panned by the fans of the book.

Plot
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George 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 sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) For the main problem with this movie, it's mostly reliant on pointless exposition. This may not be a bad thing, but if you do turn your brain off for just one second, it's really hard to process and understand what the story really is about.
 * 2) * No part of the characters' motivations are never explored until one of them tells it straight to the audience.
 * 3) * Even if you do take out most of the meaningless exposition, it still feels like another generic thriller film with nothing new to add to the idea.
 * 4) An interesting concept about a house being haunted by an abusive man and his abused wife seeking help from the living has become really wasted and mundane as the movie goes on.
 * 5) It didn't even try to be subtle. It attempts to be taken seriously, but it sounded like it was treating the audience like idiots that can't remember a minor detail.
 * 6) Almost nothing interesting happens in the movie.
 * 7) Dull acting.
 * 8) Filler and pointless scenes that don't help the film's plot at all.
 * 9) Cliched and underdeveloped characters that aren't even worth investing to:
 * 10) * Catherine Claire is a generic wife that is oblivious of her husband's true self.
 * 11) * George Claire is an unlikable, manipulative, and two-timing husband that do to get what he wants, preying on women, and steals his late cousin's artworks to become respected.
 * 12) ** Not to mention, it's shown he's also a coward by the end of the movie.
 * 13) * Justine and other side characters are treated as plot devices than actual characters.
 * 14) Most of the dialogue is just characters explaining the plot.
 * 15) The plot point dedicating to George killing the ship captain happens off-screen.
 * 16) Cheap cinematography.
 * 17) Aside from the story being about George's personality going downhill into a dark path being foreshadowing, it's still very predictable.
 * 18) Unanswered plot holes:
 * 19) * What made George into killing the ship captain?
 * 20) * Why was Catherine hallucinating about the aborted fetus in the kitchen sink?
 * 21) * Why didn't Catherine and her child leave George before he even came home?
 * 22) Stupid Ending: After George has killed Catherine, and being released after lying to the police, he later reads the letter that Justine is still alive after the car crash, George sets sail into the ocean running away to be never heard and seen again.
 * 23) After all the events that partake throughout the entire movie, almost nothing seems to be resolved by the end.

Good Qualities
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Reception
Things Heard and Seen holds an approval rating of 39% based on 85 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The terrors in Things Heard & Seen are overwhelmed by a banal and uninspired adaptation that fails to connect to its haunting source material." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".