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A “masterpiece” e-book has been was a success film starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. Based on the novel of the identical title, The Housemaid is a gripping thriller that has folks speeding to the cinemas.

Both the e-book, written by Freida McFadden, and the 2025 movie adaptation comply with Millie Calloway, a younger lady with a troublesome previous, who lands a job within the Winchester family as a housemaid. However, she shortly discovers that not the whole lot is as good because it appears as she unmasks the household’s darkish secrets and techniques, together with Nina’s risky conduct and Andrew’s manipulative tendencies. An enormous, dramatic twist reveals the reality as all the characters discover themselves in a lethal state of affairs. The film has been a significant field workplace hit since its late December 2025 launch, with robust opening weekends and continued success. It has been in excessive demand, with sold-out screenings in lots of areas the world over.

And it is no shock after the e-book rocketed in gross sales. It has bought hundreds of thousands of copies globally, surpassing 2 million copies by 2024 and reaching 3.5million copies bought by the tip of 2025.

Fans have been fast to reward the movie adaptation. Posting to IMDB, one viewer stated: “As a huge fan of the book, the movie didn’t disappoint me at all! The character portrayals were spot on. Especially Seyfried’s performance as Nina, hand her that Oscar already!!!

“I nonetheless desire the e-book. But the film truly lived as much as my expectations & possibly much more! I believe I truly desire the ending of the film over the ending of the e-book.”

Another added: “I listened to the audiobook summer season of 2023 and was launched to Freida McFadden. This film follows the e-book extraordinarily nicely and despite the fact that I could not bear in mind each element from the e-book, I recalled the principle occasions. It’s an honest film and I admire its similarity to the e-book (most likely as a result of McFadden was an govt producer on this). Worth the watch!”

“Worth the watch right here. So the e-book is fairly good and I loved that quite a bit so was nervous as often these items don’t go nicely when tailored, at the least typically. Here although it’s pretty nicely performed and a very good watch, tense and conveys absolutely the nutjob characters very nicely.

“Helped along with solid performances from the two main leads, Amanda and Sydney with quite the twist that I think is pulled off quite successfully,” a 3rd penned.