Heretic (2024)

Hugh Grant is devilishly good in cerebral horror flick ‘Heretic’. The creepy ‘Heretic’ pits a jovial, sinister Hugh Grant against a pair of religious missionaries in a battle of wits that begins to fray toward the finish.Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the co-writers of the original ‘A Quiet Place’ and writers-directors of the Adam Driver-starring dinosaur action thriller ’65,’ have returned to helm a much smaller scale horror tale here – but don’t be fooled by its size.

In its own insidious way, ‘Heretic’ is quite the cerebral exercise, powered in its first two-thirds by a malevolently good-natured Hugh Grant and a script that tackles the nature of belief and religion in provocative fashion.