The film makers behind American Splendor are back with a very different movie, a ghost story that fumbles being both scary and original. Things Heard & Seen feels like it is going through the motions, borrowing the cliches of the genre and never reaching past them. The film ends on what appears to be an attempt to present a twisty mystery but what in reality just feels tired and anti-climactic.
The film needs time to do its slow burn but in that it looses us by being, well.... boring. The tension its trying to build never quite gets there, partially due to how vanilla the characters feel, how much they seem like every other movie of this ilk. So when it starts to gear up and the set pieces start coming none of them feel earned, and I already had checked out, no longer caring.
Berman and Pulcini haven't had a film for a while and unfortunately this isn't a triumphant return. This one feels like a misfire.
Things Heard & Seen
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Karen Allen, F. Murray Abraham
Writers/Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
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