Rolling Stone ‘Things Heard & Seen’: Haunted by Ghosts, and Many, Many, Many Other Ghost Stories
Amanda Seyfried must contend with a haunted house and some recognizably human monsters in a gothic tale filled with things you’ve heard and seen before
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There are ghosts that haunt the houses of New York’s Hudson Valley, we’re told early on in
Things Heard & Seen (now streaming on Netflix) the spirits of former owners who may have unfinished business in this realm, or who may be protecting new occupants from possible danger, or who may be right evil bastards waiting to inspire the living to embrace their own inner darkness. The residents of the region, at least in the early 1980s, seem to accept this as a fact of life; some even view it as a perk. And they all know about the Vayle place, which has just been purchased by a young married couple: George Claire (James Norton), a recent addition to the local private liberal-arts col
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Ana Sophia Heger.
This trailer is somewhat vague as to what, exactly, is going on here. Is the house actually haunted, or is all of the seemingly paranormal stuff in Seyfried’s character’s mind? And who are all the other characters lurking about? Perhaps the book’s synopsis will offer more insight:
Recent transplants to the small town of Chosen, New York, the Clares have not received the warmest welcome; once a thriving dairy farm, their home is haunted by the tragedy that left the former owner’s three sons orphaned and adrift.
Late one winter afternoon, professor George Clare knocks on his neighbor’s door with terrible news: he returned from work to find his wife, Catherine, murdered in their bed. Someone took an ax to her head while their three-year-old daughter, Franny, played alone in her room across the hall.