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 Based on Elizabeth Brundage's
novel "All Things Cease to Appear", the Netflix
film tells the story of Catherine and George
Claire, who leave Manhattan for the tiny town of
Chosen with their 4-year-old daughter after
George is offered a teaching job at a nearby
college.
Catherine gives up her career to support her
husband and focuses on turning an old dairy farm
into a family home, helped by two local orphans
who seem closely attached to the house.
With George increasingly away and basking in the
attention of his young female students,
Catherine soon finds herself isolated and scared
by unexplained events in their new home.
The film is Seyfried's second horror movie
outing in a year following the 2020 title "You
Should Have Left".
"That's my favourite genre. I just can't get
enough of it," Seyfried, known for the "Mamma
Mia!" movies, told Reuters.
"It's a supernatural thriller but ... what was
so attractive to me was that I got to play one
half of a really, really dysfunctional
marriage."
Norton said the movie, set in the 1980s, touches
on themes relevant today.
"There's something about his journey which
unfortunately, particularly in light of #MeToo
in the last few years, we see those types of men
threatened by women ... We see women make
sacrifices for that guy. And it just makes no
sense. It's so antiquated," he said.
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 "This is like the horror
version of that, when a young and amazing woman
sacrifices her life for the monster of a man
that she ends up marrying."
"Things Heard & Seen" is written and directed by
filmmaker duo Shari Springer Berman and Roberto
Pulcini who set out to "honour the spirit" of
Brundage's book while drawing inspiration from
the "dramatic and spooky" landscape of the
Hudson Valley.
Once filming began they found that the
spookiness wasn't limited to the landscape.
"The house we filmed in had a lot of unexplained
sounds going on and we had to stop filming often
and send somebody up to the attic to see what
exactly was going on up there," Pulcini said.
"Things Heard & Seen" releases globally on
Netflix on Thursday.
 (Reporting by Hanna Rantala, writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian, editing by Estelle
Shirbon)
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