![]() As children usually are, Franny is the first to pick up on something supernatural in the house, as her nightlight flickers with a ghostly embodiment and her rocking chair rocks without an occupant.Ĭatherine starts picking up on it too and begins researching the history of the home, though its biggest secrets are only in the minds of her neighbours, who are keeping their mouths shut. In tow is their daughter Franny ( Ana Sophia Heger). He’s been forced to flee a professional controversy, though we don’t learn a lot about that at the start. George ( James Norton) and Catherine ( Amanda Seyfried) are a married couple relocating from New York City after George lands a job teaching art history at a small rural university. ![]() This is definitely a new direction for the pair, and the results suggest another such outing would be welcome enough. It’s the first foray into horror for the husband and wife team, who have been making movies together since they first caught our attention with the Paul Giamatti vehicle American Splendour in 2003. The prestige of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s film is probably the best thing it has going for it, as this film looks gorgeous, from establishing shots of a leafy upstate New York to the original evocation of the restless spirits. It does land in the same neighbourhood as The Shining’s 2019 sequel, Doctor Sleep, which is a good enough outcome in terms of modern prestige horror. Of course, Things Heard & Seen cannot approximate the quality of Kubrick’s masterpiece, but then, few films can. An axe even figures into the dissolution of the character in both films, and the films end on a surprising similar shot. ![]() A family of three, with the daughter about the same age as Danny Torrance, moves into a new home that is haunted by the spirits of its past occupants, causing the dad to go off his rocker. It doesn’t seem like a coincidence that the new Netflix horror Things Heard & Seen is set in 1980, the same year Stanley Kubrick released The Shining.
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