This deception continues to escalate as the reality of the life he has falsified begins to peek out into the light. This image is quickly erased when he cheats on Catherine with the first woman who he finds attractive. Although clearly manipulative and emotionally unintelligent, he is successful, and provides for his wife and daughter. George starts off as a seemingly normal husband. Thus, the true horror of “Things Heard & Seen” comes from its own American psycho, George Claire.
The character type, based off the 2000 Christian Bale film of the same name, is a man who is overwhelmed and obsessed with the image he portrays to the outside world - so obsessed that he is willing to kill for it. However, one trope that I and many others always seem to love is the American psycho. There is also typically an emphasis on jumpscares rather than more intense and psychological horror that keeps you up at night. Photo provided by Netflix Film a horror fan myself, I am often overly critical to new horror films since the same plotlines are repeated more often than not. The protagonists’ already torn relationship is susceptible to the influence of these spirits, as Catherine finds herself time and time again under the protection of the women of the house who were murdered by their malicious husbands. The spirits of the house are revealed to belong to its original owners - a man who likely killed his wife and a family that had yet another man who murdered his wife.
However, as the characters begin to develop, their descent into madness, anger and fear doesn’t revolve around their house but rather their relationships. Upon watching the first bit of the movie, many avid horror critics would dismiss the film since it didn’t seem to bring anything particularly new to the genre. Like many other horror movies, the Claires leave their city life and move into an old and worn-out looking home that, as one could guess, is flooded with malevolent spirits.
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This cracked family dynamic will only worsen as the spirits of their new house bring the family to a breaking point. Catherine Claire deals with an unfaithful husband who not only consistently manipulates and invalidates her and her daughter but is also entitled and unempathetic, blaming their struggles as a family on her eating disorder. Catherine, her husband George Claire (James Norton) and their daughter Franny (Ana Sophia Heger) move to Hudson Valley in upstate New York, following George’s new position at a private college in the area. The film, based on the novel “All Things Cease to Appear” by Elizabeth Brundage, stars “Mean Girls” and “Mank” actress Amanda Seyfried as Catherine Claire, an artist, mother and troubled wife. Netflix’s recent horror release, “Things Heard & Seen,” hit the streaming service on Friday, April 30, bringing a new twist to the classic haunted house film that audiences have loved since “Poltergeist (1982).” This review contains spoilers for the Netflix film“Things Heard & Seen.”
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