![]() That being said, act 3 totally destroys the entire framework of the movie. I was a bit put off by some aspects of the writing in the first two acts (like Jacqueline's character continuing to engage George when she knew he might be dangerous) but I could forgive that stuff as I found the drama to be compelling enough on it's own. The filmography is quite nice, and being from a rural area myself I felt oddly at home in all the comfortable home settings. Would have made for a better movie in my opinion, but probably considered a pretty big rip off of Hereditary. ![]() Then, after a confrontation with the townspeople where they reveal their true intentions, he kills them, grabs his daughter, and heads for the hills, as in the scene's opening. This would have somewhat cleared George of all wrongdoing, as he murdered two members of the cult. The townspeople turn out to be members of a Satanic cult that are trying to use Catherine to bring her back from the other side. The twist I expected was that the father is actually benevolent and Ella is the one who killed both of them. Throughout the film, the intentions of the two ghosts in the house are never really revealed, other than a short conversation where Catherine learns that Ella's husband killed them both. The film opens with a short scene of George picking up Franny and rushing her out of the house, running through a field. I suspected a pretty decent twist that never came. Because he is bad, he is transported to hell (a la "Night Gallery") by the power of 19th century mysticism. He's a fraud, a coward, a cheater and in a turn that strains all credibility - a multiple murderer. Seriously - take the ghost out of the story and what changes?Īnother big chunk of the run time is devoted to some steamy extra-marital shenanigans, but that also goes utterly nowhere. Arguably, the ghost maybe had some impact on the hell that George found himself in at the end, but I am just guessing on that one from a brief glimpse we have of the ghost and Catherine (also a ghost) at the end. There's a big "revelation" halfway through where we learn that Catherine was wrong about the identity of the ghost - uh oh! But no worries, because whether a ghost existed or not had no impact on the story, other than to cause Catherine to slightly wig out. Much is made of the ghost and who she might be. Well, in "Things Heard and Seen", that's how everything is - just a setup for something that never happens.Ĭatherine and George move into a house in the Hudson valley. But then that's it - we never see it again and it plays no part in anything that happenes. Remember that total dog, "Open House" on Netflix? There's a scene early on where the protagonist goes into the basement of the house and sees this passageway that is choked with rubble - very mysterious and creepy. The story elements were disconnected from any consequence.
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