Review of Things Heard & Seen

I really wanted to like this movie - it had a decent cast and the production values looked good- but there were SO many things in this movie that went absolutely nowhere!

• What was the point of her eating disorder? I was thinking maybe husband was going to use it against her to make her look crazy when she started catching on to his lies. Nope.

• Why did we bother getting to know the Willis character? If her only function was to illustrate that George was a jerk and expose the affair with the scarf toward the end, that could have easily been done with a nameless throwaway character that didn't confuse the plot.

• The boys who used to live in the house. Why were they so keen to come back? Surely they will be involved in the climax in some way. Nope.

• Most importantly, what was the point of the house being haunted???!!!! I assumed that the conversation that Catherine had with Floyd was foreshadowing that the ghost would end up helping her against her husband in the climax. Nope. She just let Catherine die.

And then the ending comes from out of nowhere and was completely unsatisfying and pretentious. So no justice for any of the women in that house, as the real estate agent so aptly notes, and as far as anyone knows, George escaped and is living on a beach somewhere.

This movie fails as horror, fails as a thriller, and fails as a cohesive drama. I'm not sure what it is. I gave it three stars because the actors did what they could with what they were given and the production values were decent. I am curious if the book makes more sense, but I will be mad if I read it and get more of the same.