The film explores the "mystery and uncertainty" of the human condition, asking if faith is a choice or a form of psychological conditioning.
Starring Hugh Grant in a career-redefining turn as the unassumingly sinister Mr. Reed, Heretic arrives like a thesis statement dressed as a thriller. The premise is deceptively simple: two young Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East), knock on the wrong door on a rainy afternoon. Invited in from the cold by a charming, soft-spoken Englishman, they soon discover there is no way out—not because of chains or locks, but because Mr. Reed wants to talk. And he won’t let them leave until they’ve heard him out. film heretic