The Housemaid 2025

This review contains spoilers after the NON-SPOILER section. NON-SPOILER: What starts as romance slowly mutates into a psychological thriller, where intimacy feels deliberate and weaponized rather than romantic. The film is sharp in how it explores power, manipulation, and control, not in loud, obvious ways, but through charm, structure, and quiet strategy. What makes it unsettling is that no one here is purely innocent or purely evil. Everyone is adapting, surviving, and playing within a broken system that only allows one to win. It’s provocative, uncomfortable, and effective, the kind of film that can be read as a critique but is dangerous enough to linger because of how easily it can be misread. SPOILERS BELOW: May Get Out energy akong nafeel dito. May something off talaga kay Nina (Amanda Seyfried) from the start, parang may tinatago. Habang tumatagal, mas ramdam mo na hindi lang siya basta victim dito. I think si Andrew (Brandon Sklenar) talaga ang nagpupull ng strings, quietly controlling everything behind the scenes. The bed scene was hot! Yung thunderclaps at buhos ng ulan, very deliberate. It wasn’t just sex, it was power, it was an applause of triumph of a conqueror. Mas maayos yung execution nito kaysa sa Die My Love. The intimacy feels weaponized, not romantic. May tension, may danger, may intent. Eventually, magsshift ang story from romance to thriller. Ang galing ni Nina, plano at acting lang pala niya lahat. She learned the system, internalized it, and used it back. But instead of pure liberation, what we see is something darker. Women controlling women as replacement. It’s not empowerment in a clean way. It’s survival within a broken system. Parang patriarchy but mirrored. Reverse feminism na may bahid ng desperation. It becomes “either you or me” because the system only allows one to survive. Ang galing magmanipulate ni Andrew. He represents a certain type of male control, hindi yung outright abusive agad, but calculated, charming, and strategic. Yung tipo na kaya kang paikutin hanggang magmukha kang may choice kahit wala naman talaga. This film is clearly about men controlling women, but what’s interesting is it doesn’t stop there. Both Nina and Andrew were crazy. Hindi lang one sided evil. Andrew controls through dominance and structure, Nina controls through deception and adaptation. Pareho silang produkto ng parehong power dynamics. Kadiri yung scene na inislice ni Millie (Sydney Sweeney) yung abdomen niya, pati yung front teeth ni Andrew. Then when the tables have turned, ramdam ko yung collective reaction ng cinema. Tahimik tapos biglang nagsisigawan. Effective ang film! Ganda ng ending. Nagkaroon ng parang hidden samahan ng abused wives. This is a dangerous film for the wrong mindset. May 48 Laws of Power energy siya. Pwedeng basahin bilang critique, pero pwede ring mamisinterpret as a manual to do horrible things. And that thought is what makes the film linger.