"Things Heard & Seen" Movie Review

 

by John Zenoni

Definitely watch ‘Things Heard & Seen’ if you want a suspenseful and creepy film that has one of the most memorable seance scenes I've seen in a long time. The 5-minutes of that scene alone make the film worth watching.

Amanda Seyfried plays Catherine, a young artist married to George, played by James Norton, who I must say plays this role to perfection as you cannot stand him - at least I hope one doesn’t - by the end of the film. George has taken a job as an assistant professor at a college in the New England area and moves Catherine and their daughter- against what Catherine really wants - to an old home that has a history. What he fails to tell Catherine is the background and what happened at the house. Catherine is a believer in spirits and actually feels for them and wants to try and help them. George cannot tolerate her belief in this and tries to cover it up, purposely avoiding the discussion with her or others.

Early on in the story you begin to sense not only some tension between Catherine and George but the sense of the supernatural in the house. Catherine finds old memorabilia and soon begins to investigate the story of the house. But it's not until she finds out the true story from the realtor by accident one night at a party that Catherine really begins to see the true George. The tension and suspense gradually builds until the unexpected happens but it falls in line with the history of the house.

This is an eerie film that I will admit does have a ‘head scratching’ ending but after reading up on what happened after watching, I realized it makes perfect sense.