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 can watch this heightened drama from the consolation of your personal house, 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 remodeled $300 million on the world field workplace towards a $35 million manufacturing funds), is predicated on Freida McFadden’s hit novel of the identical identify and even has a sequel within the works now. (I am going to circle again to that later.) Moreover its monetary success, the film additionally earned a reasonably constructive essential response, with Movie’s Witney Seibold describing “The Housemaid” as being “amongst Feig’s finest work” in his overview.
As talked about, the movie is at present making its method to the house market and can quickly be obtainable to both buy or hire on digital on-demand companies like Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Dwelling, and extra (on the normal costs for these platforms). As well as, those that snag the film as a digital obtain will be capable of pair it with audio commentary tracks — each from Feig and from his artistic workforce — 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 huge understatement to say this woman is down on her luck. After just lately being launched from jail (for against the law we solely find out about later within the movie), Millie resides in her automobile 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 may know from “1923” and “It Ends With Us”). At first, her association with the Winchesters appears preferrred. Not solely does Millie get her personal non-public attic bed room as a part of her continued employment, however Nina and Andrew look like the right couple, although 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 energetic 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 need to spoil all of the enjoyable of “The Housemaid” if you have not seen it, however although the film offers with extremely critical topics, it is also bizarrely entertaining due to Feig’s deft tonal steadiness and, particularly, Seyfried’s phenomenal efficiency. It is also getting a sequel based mostly on the e book sequel by McFadden, so you will need to watch “The Housemaid” earlier than that reaches theaters.
The Housemaid is getting a sequel, however there’s an issue
I truly 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 observe 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 may be one downside, although, and that downside is Amanda Seyfried.
To be clear, Seyfried herself is rarely an issue. The lady is, frankly, certainly one of our greatest working actors and is very underappreciated regardless of having each an Emmy and an Academy Award nod below her belt. (She was completely snubbed by this yr’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 inform you 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 course, 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 attainable 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.
