KKFI's Russ Simmons gave the film a mixed-to-positive review, stating: "The filmmakers create an eerie atmosphere that carries the movie even as it goes a bit off the rails in the finale."[7] Albert Nowicki of His Name is Death believed that "the film is the most interesting when it tells the story of a doomed relationship, putting the toxic marriage under a microscope". He also noted that Things Heard & Seen was not as captivating as a horror film, as it was too similar to Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath (2000).[8]