The appearance of things' or the most paranormal experience of Amanda Seyfried

 The appearance of things' or the most paranormal experience of Amanda Seyfried

What can we find in the actress's latest film? A haunted house and other very unpleasant mysteries in a gothic story based on Jessica Brundage's novel.

Evil only thrives in a house where it is welcome," says during a scene "Kindness always wins...if not in this world, then it will be in the next," declares another. How did Catherine Claire get here? 

(Amanda Seyfried) to be immersed in this situation, surrounded by virtually unknown people who try to unravel what is happening in her new house?

In the Hudson Valley all the neighbors know about the Vayle house, which has just been bought by the Claire couple, a young couple who moves from Manhattan to the area for George (James Norton) to start working at a small private university.In order for him to fulfill his dream, Catherine has had to leave the job that made her happy in the Big Apple. 

However, he feels that he owes her to try a new beginning in a place where they won't be in such a hurry at the end of the month.To facilitate the whole process, George takes it upon himself to find the perfect house and much cheaper than he. or what was thought, although he needs several reforms. 

"Such an old house needs owners with imagination," says the real estate agent without anyone asking her. And it is that many strange things happen in the Vayle house: electric toothbrushes that start by themselves, pianos that emit melodies without anyone touching them, radios that work even if they are unplugged, rocking chairs that move on their own, lamps that explode, …Have they bought a haunted house? 

While George spends time socializing at the university, Catherine spends most of her days alone, experiencing the paranormal happenings in her new home.

 Far from panicking, she decides to investigate: judging by the haunting portrait of the house's original owners that hangs on the premises of the city's historical society, there seems to be a long tradition of crimes connected to this former residence. 

The spirits of former owners who refuse to leave their own home may have more than one goal in adopting this immobile attitude: they may have unfinished business, they may want to protect their new occupants from possible danger, but they may also they can be so evil that they seek to inspire the living to embrace their darker side. Everything is possible and Catherine wants to find out.

jessica brundage novel

After receiving her first Oscar nomination for Mank, Amanda Seyfried premieres The Appearance of Things on Netflix, a film co-starring a haunted house that, following the trail of recent releases on the platform such as The Innocent, is an adaptation of the acclaimed best Jessica Brundage's self-titled seller. 

In addition to dealing with the 'things she sees', her character, Catherine, also has to fight her own inner monster - an eating disorder, her sudden loneliness isolated in the countryside and the feeling that her partner is being unfaithful to her -, as well as finding out why her husband is turning into someone she doesn't recognize.

 Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, two filmmakers who, using all the clichés of the genre, present a story full of mysticism in which Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish theologian who wrote about the afterlife and what happens between life and death in the eighteenth century. 

In this way, The appearance of things ends up becoming a mystery to be solved worthy of the most classic horror film, but in which the living are more interested than the dead. Playing with more intellectual connotations than usual, the ghost story is just an excuse to unravel the deepest secrets of marriage.