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A24's latest twisty chiller, Heretic, is now in theatres, and we're breaking down what happens in the final act of the critically-acclaimed religious horror flick.

Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who broke through with their script for John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, Heretic stars Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed, who has some fiendish plans for two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East), who come calling.

Initially wary of coming inside the house, the girls feel more at ease when the seemingly gregarious and welcoming Reed tells them that his wife is at home and currently baking a pie in the kitchen. Alarm bells go off when one of them notices a blueberry pie scented candle burning on the table, and Reed's mask begins to slip.

Reed tells his "guests" that they...

Heretic will put religion to the test when it hits theaters this November. According to the cast of the A24 horror thriller, the story had an impact on their personal beliefs.

Speaking to ComicBook, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East, who play Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, explained how the film strengthened their faith. "I learned a lot about earlier religions, so I think that's interesting to learn that a lot of religions are just re-iterations of the same story. So that was interesting. But yeah, I've always been kind of agnostic. So this kind of re-affirmed my belief."

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"I feel like I know basic knowledge about Mormonism and the points that people say that Mr. Reed [Hugh Grant] points out,...

The new live-action thriller “Never Let Go”, directed by Alexandre Aja, stars Halle Berry, Christin Park, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Stephanie Lavigne, Mila Morgan, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Cadence Compton and Georges Gracieuse, available on digital platforms December 3. 2024 :

“…a family haunted by an evil spirit, sees their safety and surroundings come into question…

“…when one of the children questions if the evil in the forest is even real…”

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Heretic promises to up the ante when it comes to its antagonist, Mr. Reed. According to Hugh Grant, who brings the character to life in the upcoming psychological horror from A24, viewers' fascination with villains stems from our true nature.

"If you go to any pantomime, who does the audience love? They love the baddie, and we are drawn to baddies," Grant told GamesRadar+ when asked to share why he thinks audiences are often drawn to bad guys in films and on television. "My personal theory is that it's because we are bad, and it's a recognition of our true nature - selfish, evil, cruel, vicious."

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"Heretic follows Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) who are forced to prove their faith...

Halle Berry's new survival horror thriller, Never Let Go, gets endorsed by another Hollywood luminary as it struggles for box-office acclaim. Revered author Stephen King offers his verdict on the Lionsgate film.

Via X (formerly Twitter), King shared his thoughts on Never Let Go, starring the acclaimed Berry alongside Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins. Though the Alexandre Aja-helmed movie has garnered mixed reviews (63% critical rating and 55% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes), King insists he's a fan. According to King, the movie is a "dark fairy tale for grownups" and called Daggs IV and Jenkins "fantastic" co-stars to feature alongside Berry.

Never Let Go: A dark fairy tale for grownups. I enjoyed it. Halle Berry and a couple of fantastic little kids. Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 27, 2024

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The new live-action horror thriller “Never Let Go”, directed by Alexandre Aja, Halle Berry, Christin Park, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Stephanie Lavigne, Mila Morgan, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Cadence Compton and Georges Gracieuse, opening September 27, 2024 in theaters:

“…a family haunted by an evil spirit, sees their safety and surroundings come into question…

“…when one of the children questions if the evil in the forest is even real…”

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Legendary author Stephen King gives his review for Never Let Go. Never Let Go is an Alexandre Aja-directed horror film that came out in theaters on September 20. It stars Halle Berry as a mother who is trying to protect her young twin sons when a mysterious evil that takes over the world. This threat leaves the trio having to stay together, even tying themselves together with ropes. In addition to Berry, Never Let Go features a leading cast including Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park, and Stephanie Lavigne.

Now, King gives his review of Never Let Go. Taking to social media, the author wrote a concise but positive review of Never Let Go. This read "Never Let Go: A dark fairy tale for grownups. I enjoyed it. Halle Berry and a couple of fantastic little kids." While the review did not directly urge audiences to go see the movie,...

Several actors often transition from being in front of the camera to sitting on the director’s throne, and this is something the iconic Halle Berry is very familiar with. The 58-year-old made her silver screen debut in a movie called Jungle Fever (1991), directed by the legendary Spike Lee.

Halle Berry as Storm in X-Men | Credit: 20th Century Studios

But it wasn’t until the following year that Berry ended up finding herself in the limelight. She acted in a film starring Eddie Murphy called, Boomerang. She also received an award for Best Breakthrough Performance at the 1993 MTV Movie and TV Awards. After landing roles a massive projects in the years that followed, Berry finally directed her first hit in 2020.

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Hugh Grant is going full-blown baddie in A24s upcoming horror flick, Heretic. True, the award-winning actor has played scoundrels in the past. Grants Daniel Cleaver certainly caused problems aplenty for Bridget Jones (Rene Zellweger) over the years. And who can forget Grants deliciously naughty performance as Fletcher in The Gentlemen? Well, theres no gray area this time: Grant is ghastly! And the thespian draws on real life, particularly people he knows, as inspiration for his cringy character, Mr. Reed. Grant said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

"There have been people in my life who were useful to me, people who were very, very clever - brilliant, really, and in some ways very plausible and quite charming and quite bewitching, but who you gradually realize that there's something deeply wrong with them. And these people very often really struggle to have any relationships in life, any meaningful friendships,...

Heretic, the hotly anticipated psychological horror from A24, will hit theaters in just a few months. The movie features Hugh Grant as the villainous Mr. Reed who, according to the actor, was inspired by real people.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Grant explained that he shaped his character on shady people from his real life, though he did not reveal any names. "There have been people in my life who were useful to me, people who were very, very clever - brilliant, really, and in some ways very plausible and quite charming and quite bewitching, but who you gradually realize that there's something deeply wrong with them," the actor said. "And these people very often really struggle to have any relationships in life, any meaningful friendships, and resort to things like pranks and slightly unfunny jokes and model-making and stuff like that."

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After playing around with genre in a more confined sandbox with Crawl and Oxygen, Never Let Go finds Alexandre Aja venturing back to terrain similar to that of 2003’s High Tension. As in that home invasion thriller, the remote setting in Never Let Go generates an oddly claustrophobic tension all its own, only here the home is a reliable place of safety. It’s a bastion in the woods that protects fraternal twins Nolan (Percy Daggs IV) and Sam (Anthony B. Jenkins) from “the Evil” that lies outside their doorstep, and which could destroy them with a single touch. Or so their Momma (Halle Berry) tells them on a daily basis.

Momma demands that whenever her boys go outside, they tie a rope that’s connected to the home around their waists, allowing them to wander only so far into the surrounding woods. This symbolic umbilical cord imagery spells out...

The new live-action horror thriller “Never Let Go”, directed by Alexandre Aja, Halle Berry, Christin Park, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Stephanie Lavigne, Mila Morgan, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Cadence Compton and Georges Gracieuse, opening September 27, 2024 in theaters:

“…a family haunted by an evil spirit, sees their safety and surroundings come into question…

“…when one of the children questions if the evil in the forest is even real…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

French director Alexandre Aja has been known as a member of the horror helming fraternity called the “Splat Pack,” named for the extreme violence in their films. Certainly, many of his pictures, from the 2003 breakthrough Haute Tension and the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, to his exceptional, and most successful film to date, 2019’s Crawl — in which a family is trapped in the crawl space of their home as alligators surround them during a Category 5 hurricane in Florida (a personal favorite of Quentin Tarantino) — have proved his chops as a genre filmmaker. Now, he steps up to another level with a less gory and more psychological thriller style of film, Never Let Go, in which Halle Berry stars as a mother of twin boys who is traumatically haunted by her own lifelong demons, which she passes on to them in their remote house deep in the woods.

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Sometimes, the scariest thing isnt the possibility of a zombie outbreak, a werewolf, or a vampire its being confronted by the flaws in everything you believe, and realizing you may be a pawn in a game you never consented to play. Writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods take a big detour from their work on A Quiet Place and 65 with their latest film, Heretic, a far from prototypical horror movie. At least for the bulk of Heretics runtime, the narrative is a stage-like, elegant philosophical joust between three characters. Although the film might lean into conventional horror stylings in its third-act attempt to address the interesting questions it poses, the misstep is not enough to knock it off its relatively confident axis.

It's important to note that Beck and Woods are not necessarily using Heretic as a vehicle to say religion is bad. Instead, they utilize this story...

Hollywood’s favorite, Halle Berry, is all set to return to the big screens, and this time, the project she is starring in is a good one as well. Although she does hold commendable credits to her name, like that of Storm in the X-Men film series, her movies, as of late, haven’t been gaining much momentum. Like her most recent The Union, which went down with strikingly rotten ratings.

Halle Berry as Storm in the X-Men film series. | Credit: 20th Century Studios.

But the case with her upcoming horror-suspense movie Never Let Go seems to be different. To say the least. While the film is still a week away from hitting the big screens worldwide, the cast still sounds like they have done wonders this time around. This is because the film’s initial screenings already seem to have won fans over with massive, massive acclaim from global audiences.

Halle Berry is not done with her X-Men character yet. The actor remains hopeful that Storm could appear in the upcoming Avengers movies.

Berry made the revelation during an interview with ComicBookMovie's Josh Wilding on YouTube while promoting her upcoming survival horror movie Never Let Go. "Perhaps you never know. We'll find out, fingers crossed," she said when asked to comment on whether Storm might appear in Avengers: Doomsday or Avengers: Secret Wars.

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Enter this contest by following the link at the bottom of this page for your chance to win a pair of passes to attend a preview screening of the upcoming film Never Let Go on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 7:00pm at the Mjr Troy. The film will be in theaters on September 20, 2024!

Synopsis: From visionary director Alexandre Aja and the creative minds behind Stranger Things and Arrival comes Never Let Go. In this new psychological thriller/horror, as an Evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother, played by Academy Award® winner Halle Berry, and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond. Needing to stay connected at all times – even tethering themselves with ropes – they cling to one another, urging each other to never let go. But when one of the boys questions if the evil is real,...

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A24 has unveiled the gripping trailer for its upcoming psychological horror film, Heretic, directed and written by the talented duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East, the film promises a chilling exploration of faith and fear, set against the backdrop of a sinister game orchestrated by Grant’s character, Mr. Reed.

In Heretic, two young Mormon missionaries, portrayed by Thatcher and East, encounter a nightmare when they knock on the wrong door during their mission. They are greeted by Mr. Reed, played by Hugh Grant, who lures them into a terrifying game of psychological torment. The trailer showcases Reed’s menacing challenge: “I won’t keep you if you wish to leave, but I want you to choose which door to go through based on your faith,” he declares, pointing to two doorways labelled “Belief” and “Disbelief.” The scene escalates into a life-sized labyrinth,...

The new live-action horror thriller “Never Let Go”, directed by Alexandre Aja, Halle Berry, Christin Park, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Stephanie Lavigne, Mila Morgan, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Cadence Compton and Georges Gracieuse, opening September 27, 2024 in theaters:

“…a family haunted by an evil spirit, sees their safety and surroundings come into question…

“…when one of the children questions if the evil in the forest is even real…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Halle Berry plays a mother with twin sons battling an evil spirit closing in on their wilderness home after a world-ending event in the trailer for Lionsgate’s Never Let Go, which dropped Thursday.

In the horror-thriller, director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Crawl) has the remote house in the woods fitted with a long ropes to enable mother and sons to remain connected at all times as unseen dangers approach.

“The evil out there is clever. One touch without a rope is all it takes,” Berry’s character tells her sons at one point in the trailer, as they commit to keep tethered to the ropes for safety and connection. But as demonic forces engulf their off-the-grid house, one of the twins questions whether evil exists.

And that breaks the family bond and triggers an all-out battle for survival. “That rope is your lifeline. Never let go. Say it,...

Lionsgate has released the trailer for the Alexandre Aja-directed horror film “Never Let Go,” starring Halle Berry.

“Never Let Go” follows a mother (Berry) and her fraternal twin sons (Anthony B. Jenkins and Percy Daggs IV), who have protected themselves from a malicious spirit for years under their family’s protective bond. However, when one of the boys begins to question the existence of the evil, the bond is broken, leading to a terrifying fight for survival.

Jenkins, Daggs, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park and Stephanie Lavigne round out the cast.

Aja directed from a script by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby. He also produced alongside 21 Laps’ Dan Cohen, Dan Levine and Shawn Levy with Berry, Dan Clarke, Connor Digregorio, Holly Jeter, Emily Morris and Christopher Woodrow serving as executive producers.

Berry is no stranger to horror and thriller films, having starred in “Gothika,” “The Rich Man’s Wife,...

Halle Berry can’t let go of psychological thrillers.

The Oscar winner turned up in Las Vegas on Wednesday during Lionsgate’s studio presentation to promote its new film, Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go, which brings Berry back into a genre she explored more than 20 years ago, in earlier work like Gothika. But this one pushed her to new limits.

Set for release on Sept. 27, Never Let Go centers on a mother and her twin sons as they try to protect themselves from evil lurking in and around their home. Needing to stay connected at all times — always by a connection of ropes — they hold tight to one another and never let go. However, one of the boys questions if the evil is real, triggering a terrifying fight for survival. Anthony B. Jenkins, Percy Daggs, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park and Stephanie Lavigne also star.

Aja directed from a...