On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 37% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The terrors in Things Heard & Seen are overwhelmed by a banal and uninspired adaptation that fails to connect to its haunting source material."[5] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6]