![]() ![]() Catherine discovers a book illustrating this as fact. It’s also rumored to be haunted by past residents who have died under horrific, sad circumstances. Their farmhouse property, built in the 1800s, is a direct reflection of their marriage: dilapidated and in desperate need of restoration. But she represses her intuitions and frustrations as she’s genuinely happy being a mom to their young daughter Franny (Ana Sophia Heger). Her lone form of control in a spiraling world is bulimia (side note: there’s no content warning at the top of the film). Their marital discord is great enough to wonder why and how they’re even together. Not only does she suffer from micro-aggressions that her arrogant, controlling, secretive husband George (James Norton) slings at her, she’s having to sacrifice her career and friendships for his new job as a professor at a private college upstate. Talented art restorer Catherine Claire’s (Seyfried) life isn’t turning out to be the perfect portrait she would’ve painted for herself. ![]() The only specters that haunt this joint are the ghosts of films past. However, it does so in a far less than otherworldly fashion. RIPLEY, YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (which also starred Amanda Seyfried) and THE NEST (another recent, tonally similar feature also set in the 1980’s where the haunted house is actually the marriage). In a cinematic séance of sorts, their adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s novel “All Things Cease to Appear” channels films like ALL GOOD THINGS, DECIEVED, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE TALENTED MR. Yet directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s haunted house thriller rarely brings eerie chills to these things that are neither seen nor heard. Rather, the insidious nature of deceit and narcissism are supposed to be the unsettling elements. The scary things in THINGS HEARD AND SEEN are rarely the ones heard or seen. ![]() Murray Abraham, Natalia Dyer, Karen Allen, Alex Neustaedter, Jack Gore, Ana Sophia Heger Starring: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Rhea Seehorn, F. Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini ![]()
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