Things Seen & Heard has a lot of good elements going for it but it does not quite work as a whole. Moving from the big city to a more remote location for the husband's new lecturing job, the increasingly isolated wife finds herself experiencing supernatural experiences in the new home whilst becoming increasingly distrustful of her husband, leading to the failing marriage becoming the battleground for spirits of previous owners. What sounds like a potentially exciting mix of ideas for story becomes however an underwhelming combination of afternoon-TV-movie-relationship thriller and The Amityville Horror, with the thriller elements coming too late and the supernatural aspects developed haphazardly. Amanda Seyfried turns in a solid performance here, and James Norton has his usual strong moments but finds himself with some character beats that any actor would struggle to play effectively. The ending could have worked with better writing but comes off as mindbogglingly silly to round off this wayward and not-totally-satisfactory film.
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