Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Housemaid.
If you’re in the mood for a twisty, high-camp thriller full of outrageous dialogue and plenty of WTF moments, look no further than The Housemaid, now in theaters.
Directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, A Simple Favor) from a screenplay by Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Vampire Diaries, The Boys), the wickedly fun adaptation of Freida McFadden’s best-selling 2022 novel transports viewers to an upstate New York mansion where the wealthy and seemingly perfect Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar) reside with their young daughter Cecilia (Indiana Elle). But of course, their idyllic existence is a facade, as the family is harboring a dark and dangerous secret. Into this lion’s den comes Millie (Sydney Sweeney), a desperate young woman in need of work to maintain her parole status after a 10-year prison stint, who takes Nina up on her offer to be the Winchesters’ live-in housekeeper.
Knowing a simple background check would have revealed she’s a felon who was lying about everything on her resume, Millie is confused about why Nina gives her the job in the first place. Still, she moves into the Winchesters’ small attic room—suspiciously complete with a door that only locks from the outside—and begins performing her daily duties of cooking, cleaning, and caring for 7-year-old Cece. But it’s not long before Millie’s biggest concern becomes Nina herself, whose erratic behavior seems to be specifically geared toward making Millie’s life a living hell. Meanwhile, Millie can’t help but grow closer to the strikingly handsome and charming Andrew, who treats her with kindness and appears to be the ideal husband and father. During this increasingly torturous adjustment period, Millie learns Nina spent some time in a psychiatric facility years earlier after allegedly leaving Cece to drown in a bathtub and taking enough pills to kill herself. She’s told Andrew was the one who called the cops in time to rescue…
