Trailer for ‘Heretic’

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From writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East. HERETIC - In Theaters This Fall.

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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[syphilisdiller]

Rooting for the heretic

[helliosx]

Looks interesting, but I don't see how a horror movie could work with an unsympathetic victims.
I will be rooting for the traps and the psycho entire time, no way to sympathize with missionaries

[slaughtermatic]

theres lots of horrors with unsympathetic victims, a recent one would be saw.

[willardwright]

I'm going to guess at least one of those girls will have a crisis of faith or bad past experiences or something else in this vein.

[automaticpeople]

Why are they unsympathetic? They haven’t hurt anyone.

[sibylblack]

What did she see in the candle?

I am here for Hugh Grant as a villain

[stardate47988]

that he wasn't really making a pie, it was a scented candle

[cgoblin]

i'd be disappointed that there's no actual pie either

[automaticpeople]

Never mind being scared of him, he’d be scared of me if he promised me pie and gave me no pie.

[burntxtoashes]

Maybe it's just cos I've listened to a lot of Mormon stories podcasts but I feel bad for missionaries.

Hugh Grant as a villain seems like a great fit, and I loved Sophie in Yellowjackets.

[screw_reality]

The Sentinelese did nothing wrong.

Hugh Grant played real slimy in The Gentlemen (2019), granted it was veering into the predatory gay trope. I vaguely remember him being similarly unsettling in An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), but it was eclipsed by other events.