The Housemaid (2025) TRAILER REVIEW Re-Upload: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Michele Morrone, Brandon Sklenar
The trailer begins with the gates opening to the Grand Winchester Mansion.
A red main door opened. “Hi, Millie!” said Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried), a suburban billionaire housewife. His husband owns the mansion.
A sleek, ocean-blue sedan pulls up in front of the mansion. Out comes Millie (Sydney Sweeney).
“Hi! Mrs. Winchester.” Millie greeted back. She is an applicant for the housemaid opening in the house.
“Oh, please call me Nina,” Nina responded. “Come on in.”
Millie smiled
Inside the mansion, they have a fireplace and two red sofas. Nina and Millie sat facing each other.
“So, why do you want this job?” Nina asked.
“I just really enjoy being a housemaid,” Millie responded. “…for my family, of course.”
“You know this is a live-in position, right?” Nina asked, confirming.
It cuts to a wooden door in the house.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
You hear loud, desperate BANGING, like someone wants to get out.
It cuts to a separate scene. “Tadaaaa!,” Nina exclaimed as she opened the door to a minimalist-style attic room. I personally like it. The dominant color is white or cream white. The gables form a triangle. In the middle is a twin bed with white sheets and a white pillow.
“What do you think?” Nina asked.
“It’s perfect,” Millie said.
“Okay, good!” Nina affirmed.
Okay. So far, everything seems cool. But every movie, every novel, has a catch. What is the catch?
The house interior is beautiful. It’s a paradise for minimalists like me. You hear Nina’s voice, “So, do you want a grand tour?”
Millie is amazed, looking around the house. She saw a large painting — a family portrait. It’s Nina, her husband, and her daughter.
“See what you’re getting yourself into?”
You see Millie wiping the kitchen floor. Nina’s voiceover continued.
“The job is mostly cleaning, organizing…”
You see Millie folding clothes in the laundry room.
“…some light cooking.”
You then see her breaking three eggs for an omelet. She pulled a pie from the oven.
While organizing the kitchen, wearing headphones, Millie turned around to see a little girl and a handsome guy wearing a suit. “Hello,” Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar) greeted Millie. He’s a tech entrepreneur.
Nina puts her arm around Millie’s shoulder, “Millie’s gonna be living with us.”
Cecelia (Indiana Elle) does not look happy. The little girl, daughter of Andrew and Nina, aged 9.
“She’s gonna live with us?” Andrew asked in a blank, slightly annoyed tone.
“I told you that,” Nina said as she smiled at him. “She would be part of the family.”
As Millie closed the bathroom mirror, you see Nina in the reflection.
It cuts to the kitchen, Nina told Millie, “I want you to be safe here.”
Millie smiled awkwardly, “I do.”
Nina stared at Millie for a second too long, and then she pulled out a golden old-school-looking key, “For your door.”
Millie squinted.
In the kitchen, Millie stared at some knives.
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Nina’s voiceover continues, “You’re a lifesaver. I don’t know what I would do without you.”
You get a cool scene. It’s a long table. On one end, Andew was the life of the party. He was the focus of a dozen guests whose raucous laughter echoed in the dining area. It’s as if they forgot about the woman at the other end. Nina sat like a statue, her hands flat on the polished wood. Her gaze was not amusement, but a hard, unbroken line of pure anger fixed directly on Andrew. What the f*** is up with Nina? They seem like a happy family.
In the kitchen, Nina smashed a milk box on the floor. Millie is stunned. Millie’s voiceover began, “I need this job. I can’t lose it. I-I-I can’t go back.”
She saw Andrew outside comforting his crying wife and carrying her from the kitchen floor.
It does feel like a Hallmark/Lifetime movie. But it’s so intriguing. What is up with this Nina-Andrew relationship? Is Nina jealous of her own husband?
You also see Cecelia’s realistic dollhouse. She even had Millie lying on her bed at attic.
Inside the house, you see Millie sneakily peeping out the door as she sees Nina and Andew kiss.
Is this entire novel/movie just an allegory for suburban anxiety?
Millie carried a tray of food from the island kitchen. But then, something she saw STUNNED her that she dropped all the coffee and pastries on the floor.
you also hear….
“AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!” Nina SCREAMED in agony.
She BANGED the steering wheel of her car. Her voiceover comes back, “All I’m asking, baby….”
On white text over a black screen…
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You then see several police vehicles. Blue and red lights pulsed across their perfectly manicured lawn at night. Nina stood frozen at the door of their mansion. A few feet away, Andew and her daughter stood shuddering near an ambulance . They were physically safe, but STUNNED into SILENCE. What the f*** happened?
Millie comes down the stairs wearing a white spaghetti dress.
You then see Nina with three of her ‘Suburban Mom’ friends staring at Millie.
It’s dark in the kitchen. It must be late at night. Nina smiled like a madwoman. You then see her BLOODIED hand holding a KNIFE.
Behind CLOSED DOORS
At night in front of the fireplace, Andew hugged and comforted her wife.
It cuts to a separate scene. You see Millie with pigtails full of ANGUISH and seemingly SMASHING someone into pieces. It was guttural anger She lit a match. But then it cuts to Nina in her house seated at the bathtub and BURNING a letter.
It cuts to Millie getting arrested by the police.
It cuts to Millie crying.
You see Andrew seemingly seducing Millie. Is that why Nina got angry?
It cuts to Millie eating a sandwich with BLOOD on her hand and forehead.
The Scene Turned Black.
When it comes back, we’re back to the scene from earlier, the job interview. “I have a really good feeling about this, Millie,” Nina said.
“Me too,” Millie responded.
“Okay, I’ll be in touch,” Nina said.
Outside, you then see Nina waving goodbye with a sweet smile on her face. Looking at the rear mirror, Millie also smiled and waved back at Nina as she drove away. However, she then rolled her eyes and threw her glasses on the shotgun chair. HOLY SH**. She’s FAKING it all along.
The trailer ends with hands locking Millie’s door from the outside
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