Written by: Elizabeth Brundage (based on the novel “All Things Cease to Appear”, Shari Springer Berman, and Robert Pulcini.
Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Anna Sophie Heger, and many others who are not main castings.
The story of this film is set in the 1980s, where a Manhattan artist (Seyfried) relocates her young family to a historic home in the Hudson Valley. As she settles into her new life in her new town, she begins to suspect that all is not what it seems within her home and marriage, which has a sinister darkness to it, one that rivals the history of her new home…
I’m not sure what I expected, but this wasn’t as great as I had anticipated. It started off great, but then I began to lose interest in the story’s plot. With the casting of this film, particularly Natalia Dyer and Amanda Seyfried, I expected more. Maybe? More scenes to grip the viewer, and that is not what I felt!
It was too predictive for my liking, as soon as the scenes of the old house, which Catherine (Seyfried) moved her family to, emerged. The scene with her husband, George (Norton), was seen talking to a young girl named Willis, played by Natalia Dyer. I just knew where the plot was leading.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the critics’ reviews on this one and rate it low.
I rate this film 2 stars
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