Heretic

2024
12
1h 51m

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7.0/10

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Two young women of religion are drawn into a game of cat and mouse in the house of a strange man.

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Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

119K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 29 nominations total

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Trivia
Hugh Grant once stated in an interview "I'm getting bored of playing obvious roles and being typecast." Writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods saw this interview and wrote the character of Mr. Reed with Hugh as their top choice for the role.

Goofs
A woman who was starved and in a weakened state as the captive women were wouldn't have had the strength to open the metal trap door, move the dead weight of a dead body and dump it down the shaft. Also the body was not near the base of the ladder so it would have had to have been dragged after being dropped. All that would have had to have been accomplished without making noise to alert the girls that it was happening.

Quotes
Mr. Reed: [air quoting] You know, "With great power comes great responsibility."
Sister Paxton: Spider-Man.
Mr. Reed: Voltaire.
Sister Paxton: Right.

Crazy credits
The end credits state that no Generative Al was used in the making of the film.

Connections
Featured in Movie Reviews: Heretic | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)

Soundtracks
Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)
Performed by Ipana Troubadours
Written by Harry M. Woods (as Harry Woods) and Mort Dixon
Published by Callicoon Music (ASCAP), Bienstock Publishing Company obo Redwood Music Ltd. (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (PRS)
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment (Canada)

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Featured review

6/10

Hard to Rate

I am going to echo what some others have said. The first half of this movie is brilliant. It lost me about halfway through, though. I wish so much that the writers would have chosen a different path. Heretic could have been one of the most genius movies ever written if their villain would have been a different sort and had different motivations. While hard to choose a number for this movie, I think I'm feeling 6 1/2. Great acting. Great cinematography. And, like I said, brilliant script in the first half. A thought-provoking film until it isn't. Also, the ending is more ambiguous than I would like it to be. If the whole movie were like the first half, this would be a solid 9. But alas.