This Amanda Seyfried Horror Film Deserves A Second Look

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While Amanda Seyfried is famous for playing Karen Smith in Mean Girls, and she has starred in many sweet movies like Mama Mia and Dear John, the actress has also taken on quite a few dark thrillers and horror films. Seyfried starred in Jennifer's Body and Chloe, which were both released in 2009, and brought her talents to 2020's Things Heard And Seen and You Should Have Left.

Amanda Seyfried also played the main character Jill Conway in the 2012 horror movie Gone. This movie didn't get good reviews and has likely been forgotten by horror fans, but there's something about it that deserves a second look.

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Amanda Seyfried playing Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout is getting a lot of buzz, and Seyfried has starred in so many entertaining and interesting movies. Generally speaking, Gone wasn't considered a very good movie. With an Audience Score of 42% and a 12% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, critics weren't impressed, and it's possible that this movie has gotten lost among the many horror films from the past decade so. But Amanda Seyfried's performance as Jill is what makes the movie worth watching, and the movie also does a good job with the «is the main character right or imagining things?» trope. This is a horror and thriller movie trope that is often used and rarely impressive, but here, it works. Audiences do believe Jill from the start, also thanks to Seyfried's acting chops, and it's a wild ride seeing how she puts the pieces together.

When the movie opens, audiences learn that police think that Jill completely made up a story about being kidnapped, held in a hole under the ground, and escaping. Jill has been living a lonely life with her sister Molly