Heretic

This is a well-acted movie all round, but primarily a vehicle for Grant -- who has played his share of comic villains, but has rarely been asked to be seriously scary.

It's a reminder, particularly in the horror genre, that a good idea and a single location can be a really adventurous roller coaster ride.

[Grant] is commanding in Heretic, which starts out as a psychological thriller and may or may not develop into a full-tilt horror movie.

A complex debate on the legitimacy of religion that arrives framed in absolutely captivating staging. [Full review in Spanish]

As a housebound sadist menacing a pair of Mormon missionaries in the new horror film Heretic, Grant gives the least engaged and most profoundly joyless performance of his five-decade career.

Here [Scott Beck and Bryan Woods] have made a mini-masterpiece, with lean filmmaking and lots of surprises.

If religion is an opiate for the masses then the same might be said for cinema as evidenced in Heretic, an ersatz existential religious horror film that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

A foreboding horror movie co-directed and written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. The duo have restructured the standard haunted house formula with the violence of ‘Saw.’ Then add a huge dose of faith elements.


It does brush up against many tropes of the genre, but it is elevated to a much more intellectually terrifying level through a brilliant script by writers/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

Heretic is as much bolstered by its lustrous script as it is by its impressive casting. [Full review in Spanish]