Things Heard and Seen is the latest Netflix horror thriller film, adapted from Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear. Starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton, the film is a moody, haunting story about gaslighting, abuse and paranormal justice.
George (James Norton) and Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) move with their young daughter Franny to a small town when George gets a job lecturing at the local college. Almost as soon as they move in, strange things begin to happen in the house and a pervasive smell of petrol fills their room at night.

It is revealed that a murder-suicide occurred with the house’s previous owners – Calvin Vayle killed his wife Ella Vayle and himself (using car fumes), orphaning their two sons Eddie and Cole.

The title comes from the seminal work of Swedish theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, the full name of which is Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, which characters vaguely discussed in the movie.
As said, Catherine is guided by the spirit of Ella Vayle and George is guided by the spirit of Calvin Vayle who killed his wife Ella vayle. This film clearly stated that the good spirit will be always with a good person and the evil spirit will be with the Evil One. Here Catherine never felt the presence or seen the spirit of Calvin Vayle and George never felt the presence of Ella until the last scene.
The whole film is focused on finding justice not only for Catherine but for the other women who died at the hands of their husbands while living in Claire’s house.
But here is the catch... George has an affair with a college student. We can easily relate to George that he is manipulative which is revealed throughout the movie as he cheats on, lies to, gaslights Catherine and also under the influence of Calvine Vayle’s evil spirit.
But Catherine also has an affair with a much younger man Eddie, who is the elder son of Ella vayle. It is supposedly Catherine should feel Eddie as his son when guided by a good spirit Ella, who is the own mother of Eddie. Rather, she ends up kissing him and unbuckles his pants for intimacy.
Either way, both Catherine and George who are guided by both the spirits are not true to each other. We learn that the women who have lived in the house are known to be cursed and they were brutally killed by their husbands. In this movie, they never mentioned any particular reason for what Calvin Vayle killed his wife Ella. This kindles a doubt that whether Ella also had an extramarital affair which is why calvin was so mad at her at went on murdering her and the same spirit of ella who is the counterpart of Catherine in the spiritual world guides her into infidelity. This might be an added reason for George to kill her. Because in a particular scene in the movie, on a haunted night a vulture breaks the bedroom window and falls inside. On seeing this George tells Catherine that "Have your boyfriend fix the window in the morning". This scene takes place soon after Catherine and Ediies' intimate encounter. So it is obvious that George was aware of Catherine's affair either by Calvins spirit or by himself. So this might be the reason for all the murders that happened in this house previously and the trend of good and evil spirit fight continues.

Although none of it was clearly mentioned or explained in the movie. If you haven't watched the film yet watch it on Netflix and pour down your comments below on your thoughts about the movie.
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