The Housemaid movie review: Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried shine in familiar domestic thriller | Movie-review News
The Housemaid movie review: Housemaids and house mistresses share a relationship that is testy at best. Put striking blonde Sweeney and striking blonde Seyfried in the two roles, and there are bound to be fireworks. This is, of course, what Feig is counting on, resting this stretched and mostly familiar story on the solid ground provided by the two actors, who play off each other with just the right amount of tension and chemistry. Thanks to the two, it’s clear from the start that nothing is as it appears in the stately mansion belonging to the even more stately named the Winchesters. Andrew Winchester (Sklenar) works in IT and the family home, from the tip of its tiny attic to its dungeon man cave, has been built to his “precise specifications”. That detail is one of the many throwaways by his wife Nina (Seyfried), as she introduces their house and household to wannabe-housemaid Millie (Sweeney). The latter drives away, believing she has made a wasted trip, for a woman as thorough as Nina was bound …





