The Housemaid (2025)

 


The Housemaid is a sexy thriller laced with dark & paranoia, which comes to a nice and well deserved ending, but along the way watch for those twists and turns that the filmmakers develop.  I thought the movie was treading familiar territory, but there is enough surprises to keep the audience guessing.  The film seems simple enough a women wants a Housemaid to help run the house along with her husband (Brandon Sklenar) and her daughter (Indiana Elle).  The wife is played by Amanda Seyfried and the housemaid is played by Sydney Sweeney who plays her part flawlessly.  The chemistry between the two leads is dynamic and it sells the movie.  Nina seems a bit spoiled and flawed from what we think we learn in the beginning of the movie.  Millie on the other hand is played as a desperate women who has done bad things in the past & need to succeed.  But what you think that you know turns out to be completely false is the magic of this film.  The director Paul Feig does a remarkable job in keeping us distracted at the glaring clues he gives us that all is NOT right in this story.  

Now I don't want to give anything away.  It's just better that you find out yourself.  Seeing it in the theater was fun because we the audience all did a collective response to the revelations, and by viewing it in a movie theater we all shared the same collective emotion of the revelations.  What I thought was a break in the pacing of the film was just another point of view, which revealed how intricate the plot is.  Needless to say I will not give out spoilers just as to say that it's all worth it in the end.  Brandon Sklenar's performance from loving, caring husband to twisted individual is in the annual's of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho.  But I feel I already have given too much away, and I will say no more.  All the performances in this film are stellar and the pacing of the film is dead on.  All 2 hours and eleven minutes.

See it with friends, or try to see it in the theaters and take along some friends.  You'll be talking about this film way after the film is ended and into dinner.  I could go on and one, but I won't I feel I said already too much.  If you think you know where this movie is headed you don't, and I'd say go see this film.

I would be remiss if I did not point out to the young actress who plays CeCe who plays Nina's little girl.  She does a magnificent job & she is so young (11 years old).  Her name is Indiana Elle, and hopefully we'll see more of her in the future.

So head on off to see the Housemaid & get ready to see a really interesting & suspenseful thriller with  a bit of a wink & a nod to erotic thrillers.  The film is also executive produced by Amanda Seyfried, & Sydney Sweeney, and you can see their involvement in the making of this film, and I think that's why it is such a good film.  Gives it a women's perspective.  Go see it I guarantee you you won't regret it.  Great date movie too.  



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