Hugh Grant is a great actor. He easily elevates a dry comedic role, and he plays one hell of a creep. He is flexing his creepy skills in the new horror thriller Heretic , in which he plays a man who encounters two Mormon sister missionaries who knock at his door,

You've heard of "faith-based movies"? Well, "Heretic" is essentially the opposite. In A24's thorny, impossible-to-anticipate thriller, co-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (best known as the writers of "A Quiet Place") ask audiences to accept Hugh Grant as a demented religious scholar so extreme,

Heretic' is a surprisingly intense chamber piece with excellent performances that lift the film above its escape room horror contemporaries.

Hugh Grant leads a spine-chilling new horror film, Heretic, from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers behind A Quiet Place, who center their latest tale on two young women of faith who find themselves in a ruthless game of cat and mouse in a strange man's house.

I knew Beck and Woods could write a good horror movie due to their script for "A Quiet Place," but that was a specific type of horror: a high concept mainstream crowdpleaser focused on funhouse frights over big ideas.