Amanda Seyfried‘s happy home is haunted in the first official trailer for The Housemaid. In theaters Dec. 19, the Paul Feig-directed psychological thriller brings Seyfried’s character Nina together with Sydney Sweeney‘s Millie under circumstances that are far more sinister than they initially appear. Based on the novel by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid follows Millie as she’s hired by Nina to serve as a live-in housemaid.
This works out great for Millie, who needs somewhere to live, and also for Nina, who needs someone to handle cleaning, organizing, some light cooking, and maybe commit a crime for her. As the trailer shows, overlayed with a haunting rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” the household Nina has built with her husband, Andrew, and their daughter is only picture-perfect in the beginning. What happens behind closed doors — locked doors, spilled secrets, and power struggles — shatters their perfect family illusion, but Millie’s closet isn’t devoid of skeletons, either.
The Housemaid also stars Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone, and Elizabeth Perkins. The release will mark Sweeney’s latest film following Christy and Echo Valley, both of which arrived earlier this year. Seyfried recently appeared in The Testament of Ann Lee, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 1.
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Rolling Stone named The Housemaid one of the 50 most anticipated films of fall 2025. “Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in an adaptation of Frieda McFadden’s 2022 novel about a troubled young woman who, desperate for a steady paycheck, takes a job working as a maid for a wealthy woman and her family in Westchester, New York,” David Fear wrote. “Everything seems peachy, until the newest addition to the household begins to suspect that every happy smile hides a number of rather dark secrets. Paul Feig directs this thriller — and we’re assuming we’re getting more of the Feig who made A Simple Favor rather than the Feig who gave us, say, Spy and Bridesmaids.”
