Remembering Amanda Seyfried’s Netflix Horror Film And The Beating It Took From Critics

Filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini got their start with a documentary about a famous Los Angeles restaurant called “Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s,” but broke through the world of narrative features with “American Splendor,” a comedy biopic starring Paul Giamatti about the underground comic book writer, Harvey Pekar.

At the 93rd Academy Awards, Amanda Seyfried snagged a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in “Mank,” David Fincher’s biopic of Herman J.

Mankiewicz released by Netflix.

In the year that followed, Berman and Plucini linked up with Seyfried and Netflix to make “Things Heard and Seen” based on the novel “All Things Cease to Appear” by Elizabeth Brundage.Seyfried was cast as the star, but she was joined by “Stranger Things” favorite Natalia Dyer, “Better Call Saul” standout Rhea Seehorn, Karen Allen of “Indiana Jones” fame, Academy Award-winner F.

Murray Abraham, Academy Award-nominee Michael O’Keefe,…

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