"Paul Feig has built a career out of sneaking sharp knives into glossy packages, and with The Housemaid, he leans hard into that instinct. The director behind Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, and A Simple Favor is back with a psychological thriller that toys with your expectations before yanking the floor out from under them, all while centering yet another complex, female-led story starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried."
"Feig was keenly aware of the book's massive fanbase, which meant resisting the urge to reinvent the wheel. "The book's really good, and it had been on the bestseller list for like a year and a half when I came on," he says. "So it was knowing, yeah, let's not mess with it too much. Let's just make sure we make it as cinematic as we can.""
Paul Feig adapts Freida McFadden's bestselling novel into The Housemaid, maintaining the book's core while enhancing cinematic elements. The film deliberately lulls viewers into complicity in the first hour and then upends expectations with punitive consequences in the second hour. The narrative centers complex, female-led characters played by Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried and foregrounds point of view and restrained performances. The production resists wholesale reinvention due to the novel's large fanbase, opting instead for careful tonal pivots and signature visual details that merge Feig's sensibilities with psychological-thriller mechanics.
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