Anybody who’s seen and loved the 2018 film “A Easy Favor” is aware of that writer-director Paul Feig is nice at adapting thriller books into campy masterpieces, and he managed to do it once more in 2025 with “The Housemaid,” starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Brandon Sklenar. Now, you’ll watch this heightened drama from the consolation of your individual dwelling, beginning with its launch on Premium Video On Demand (PVOD) and digital on February 3, 2026.
“The Housemaid,” which debuted in theaters in December 2025 and has carried out admirably (having revamped $300 million on the world field workplace towards a $35 million manufacturing price range), is predicated on Freida McFadden’s hit novel of the identical identify and even has a sequel within the works now. (I will circle again to that later.) Moreover its monetary success, the film additionally earned a reasonably optimistic vital response, with Movie’s Witney Seibold describing “The Housemaid” as being “amongst Feig’s finest work” in his evaluation.
As talked about, the movie is presently making its solution to the house market and can quickly be accessible to both buy or hire on digital on-demand providers like Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at House, and extra (on the regular costs for these platforms). As well as, those that snag the film as a digital obtain will be capable to pair it with audio commentary tracks — each from Feig and from his artistic group — in addition to a featurette about adapting the novel, a behind-the-scenes tour of the movie’s major set (the Winchester mansion, to not be confused with the Winchester thriller home), and deleted scenes.
So, what’s “The Housemaid” about within the first place?
The Housemaid is a bloody, twisted story about two girls trapped in a nightmare
As “The Housemaid” opens, we meet Sydney Sweeney’s Millie Calloway, and it is a large understatement to say this lady is down on her luck. After not too long ago being launched from jail (for a criminal offense we solely study later within the movie), Millie resides in her automotive and unable to discover a regular job till she meets Nina and Andrew Winchester, performed by Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar (the latter of whom you would possibly know from “1923” and “It Ends With Us”). At first, her association with the Winchesters appears ideally suited. Not solely does Millie get her personal personal attic bed room as a part of her continued employment, however Nina and Andrew seem like the proper couple, regardless that their younger daughter, Cecelia (Indiana Elle), appears suspicious of Millie’s presence. Earlier than lengthy, although, the cracks begin to present.
With out spoiling all of the wild twists and turns discovered inside “The Housemaid” (and there are a number of, which Paul Feig brings to life completely by faithfully sticking to Freida McFadden’s lurid supply novel), the underside line is that there is a darkness within the Winchester home. Ultimately, Millie discovers that there is lively abuse occurring within the family … and never solely that, however the extra she learns, the extra she finds herself at risk so far as Nina and Andrew are involved.
Once more, I do not wish to spoil all of the enjoyable of “The Housemaid” if you have not seen it, however regardless that the film offers with extremely severe topics, it is also bizarrely entertaining because of Feig’s deft tonal steadiness and, particularly, Seyfried’s phenomenal efficiency. It is also getting a sequel based mostly on the ebook sequel by McFadden, so you will wish to watch “The Housemaid” earlier than that reaches theaters.
The Housemaid is getting a sequel, however there’s an issue
I really wrote about this proper right here at /Movie, however shortly after “The Housemaid” made waves on the field workplace, its distributor, Lionsgate, introduced that Paul Feig and Sydney Sweeney would return for a sequel, which is able to comply with Freida McFadden’s novel “The Housemaid’s Secret.” On the one hand, the ending of “The Housemaid” completely units up a sequel, in that it makes it clear that Millie’s “work,” so to talk, will proceed even after she leaves the Winchester home. There’s one downsidealthough, and that downside is Amanda Seyfried.
To be clear, Seyfried herself isn’t an issue. The lady is, frankly, one in every of our greatest working actors and is very underappreciated regardless of having each an Emmy and an Academy Award nod beneath her belt. (She was completely snubbed by this 12 months’s Oscar nominations for her phenomenal main flip in Mona Fastvold’s “The Testomony of Ann Lee.”) Due to the way in which “The Housemaid” concludes, although, Seyfried’s character Nina Winchester will not be a part of the motion anymore … and once more, I will not let you know why if you have not seen the movie. Although Sweeney offers a serviceable efficiency that I can solely assume was bolstered by Feig’s cautious route, Seyfried is an absolute knockout in “The Housemaid,” and it feels unbelievably disappointing that we in all probability will not see her within the follow-up.
Solely time will inform if that is the case, although. (It is doable Feig has already found out some kind of workaround.) In the meantime, go forward and hire or purchase “The Housemaid” as soon as it hits main digital platforms on, once more, February 3, 2026.
