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Things heard and seen novel plot6/18/2023 ![]() ![]() And then the ghosts start making themselves known. We find out it has become something of a pattern over the years. She learns from the town historical society that the man who built it drugged his wife and brutally killed her with an ax decades earlier. Almost immediately, Catherine begins to feel a presence - frightening, but not altogether unpleasant - in her fixer-upper dwelling. They hightail it with their young daughter to a crumbling farmhouse that most sane people would be afraid to buy lettuce from, and settle in. Catherine feels inadequate and suffers from an eating disorder, and George is obviously a womanizing pig. One refreshing change-up is that Catherine ( Amanda Seyfried) and George (James Norton) are not in the happiest marriage ever when they decide to leave the city, so he can take a teaching job in the Hudson Valley. And while “Things Heard & Seen” is not in the same league as “A Quiet Place” and Charlie Kaufman’s oddball Netflix thriller, it has a spooky atmosphere and an appealingly slow boil that will liven up a Saturday night. ![]() It’s plainly clear, however, that north of New York City makes for many great movies. And now, in “Things Heard & Seen,” a Manhattan family’s new Millerton house is haunted by an ax murderer. In “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” an innocent visit to a boyfriend’s parents’ Fishkill farm traps you in a psychological nightmare. In “A Quiet Place,” speaking out loud in Pawling gets you slaughtered by aliens. Hollywood would have us believe upstate New York is hell on earth. ![]()
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