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Heretic

Hugh Grant terrorizes two missionaries.

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by Anonymousreply 37March 30, 2025 2:28 AM

Now this looks fun

by Anonymousreply 1June 27, 2024 8:08 AM

He looks great. (As does this!)

by Anonymousreply 2June 27, 2024 8:15 AM

So the villain goes after the villains.

by Anonymousreply 3June 27, 2024 8:16 AM

Now how about a quality horror vehicle like this for our beloved Liza?? Get your final draft open gays!!

by Anonymousreply 4June 27, 2024 8:30 AM

I don't think a gimmick is needed: Hugh Grant terrorizes two missionaries by just being his typical awful self along with nearly boring them to death with all of his sketchy exploits, baby mamas all while pretending to be Mr. Darcy. That sounds pretty horrible

by Anonymousreply 5June 27, 2024 8:39 AM

And the trailer starts off with the best, swooniest Hollies song.

I’m in.

by Anonymousreply 6June 27, 2024 10:30 AM

[quote] Hugh Grant terrorizes two missionaries.

On the red carpet?

by Anonymousreply 7June 27, 2024 10:34 AM

I love that Hollies song. I will ignore the plot hole that as soon as the one girl felt uneasy she and her friend could have promptly left.

by Anonymousreply 8June 27, 2024 3:34 PM

I thought the trailer was about to play Creep by Radiohead.

by Anonymousreply 9June 28, 2024 3:04 AM

Just watched the cam version and loved every second of it! Can't recall the last time I enjoyed a movie this much. A perfect little horror flick, with a more than relevant subject matter for our times.

Hugh Grant often phones it in, but not here, honey; all the facial expressions you can eat. The two actresses were wonderful as well.

by Anonymousreply 10November 10, 2024 3:01 PM

Does Celine sing?

by Anonymousreply 11November 10, 2024 3:13 PM

Who the fuck is Celine?

by Anonymousreply 12November 10, 2024 3:18 PM

The credit song is "Knocking on Heavens Door" with the instrumentals of "Fade Into You" and sung by one of the leads, Sophie Thatcher. Very clever, considering one particular point raised in the film.

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by Anonymousreply 13November 10, 2024 3:27 PM

Looks good! Glad to see Hugh entering into and embracing his "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" era.

by Anonymousreply 14November 10, 2024 3:42 PM

I think he makes no bones about the fact he's got about twenty kids and needs the cash.

by Anonymousreply 15November 10, 2024 5:21 PM

Okay never mind about the plot hole. The girls did try to leave, but the door was locked.

by Anonymousreply 16November 10, 2024 8:04 PM

Just saw this last night. His character made some pretty good points about religion especially christianity being a knock off of earlier religions and what a con Joseph Smith was. Wonder how the Mormon church felt about it.

by Anonymousreply 17January 27, 2025 1:36 PM

R9

Creep actually plays into the plot in a tiny way.

by Anonymousreply 18February 12, 2025 1:02 AM

Didn’t care for it

by Anonymousreply 19February 12, 2025 1:07 AM

Me neither R19. I was actually enraged by it, it was a fucking rip off of "Martyrsf" with a lot of Kevin Smith-like dialogue about how very, very smart the writers are. Oh you noticed that religions all rip each other off and that Joseph Smith made up a bunch of shit to justify having a girlfriend, etc. How clever you are! No one else has ever noticed that. I hate Mormonism but even more I hate assholes like this who just want to have "gotcha!" discourse about it. The fact he said he wanted to talk about Mormonisn is the big tip that he's got nefarious deeds in mind, because no one wants to talk about Mormonism. And when he said "kool aid" instead of flavor aid, which was what they drank in Jonestown, I nearly through my shoe at the tv. The self indulgent run time of just south of two hours, is obnoxious too. I'm glad I saw this but I find it ironic how he talks all through the movie about artists ripping off other artists, when that's exactly what this movie did. Like Radiohead sued, I hope the Martyrs writer does too.

by Anonymousreply 20March 24, 2025 3:50 AM

It was an okay movie, but I was impressed at the amount of dialogue that he had to remember.

by Anonymousreply 21March 24, 2025 3:57 AM

It got off to a promising start but fell apart in the third act.

by Anonymousreply 22March 25, 2025 10:24 PM

I didn't either, r19, mostly because it began with a very fascinating psychological premise that it couldn't sustain and then became trite and formulaic.

by Anonymousreply 23March 26, 2025 9:55 AM

That’s not nice of the Hugh person to terrorize people who like to have sex in the missionary position.

by Anonymousreply 24March 26, 2025 11:28 AM

I started it but gave up.

by Anonymousreply 25March 26, 2025 1:25 PM

I thought this was very well acted.

by Anonymousreply 26March 26, 2025 1:48 PM

I saw this movie, it's more an indictment of organized religion with a creepy basement and some caged ghouls thrown in for texture.

by Anonymousreply 27March 26, 2025 4:51 PM

Yes R27, the "I am very smart and can clown Mormonism" shit, like anyone can't do that, and then the Martyrs rip off of the tortured women, it's a total pile of shit and I can't believe people like it. Nothing he says is clever and you can just go to r/atheist and read there without wasting 2 hours. I'm disappointed A24 would put this out. I love "Strange Darling" and their other horror movies.

by Anonymousreply 28March 27, 2025 4:40 AM

R4 the best Liza could get is a guest appearance in one of those hour long Scooby Doo movies. Like Sonny & Cher, Jerry Reed, Mama Cass, etc.

by Anonymousreply 29March 27, 2025 5:12 AM

I agree that it started out very strong but sadly shit the bed towards the end. Sad!

by Anonymousreply 30March 29, 2025 8:25 AM

Hugh Grant was great in this, I'll give it that.

by Anonymousreply 31March 29, 2025 12:02 PM

What about me?

by Anonymousreply 32March 29, 2025 2:35 PM

I had a dream about Mormon missionaries after watching this.

No sex, sadly.

by Anonymousreply 33March 29, 2025 3:13 PM

I watched on HBO last night. Hugh was great but WTF with that ending. It could have been so much better with a stronger second half.

by Anonymousreply 34March 29, 2025 3:55 PM

If anyone needs terrorizing, it’s missionaries

by Anonymousreply 35March 29, 2025 5:30 PM

He looks really terrible for his age. Must be from all those kids.

by Anonymousreply 36March 29, 2025 7:09 PM

He should have stuck with Divine, or whoever that trans was, he wouldn't have had kids.

by Anonymousreply 37March 30, 2025 2:28 AM
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