Writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods discuss their approach to A24's Heretic, philosophical horrors, Hugh Grant's performance and more.

"The debate and conversation on the way out of the theater is what we were driving towards," Bryan Woods tells The Hollywood Reporter in conversation with Scott Beck about their horror film starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as Mormon missionaries and Grant as a potential convert.

After making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, "Heretic" is ready to be seen by the masses. In this horrifying thriller, veteran actor Hugh Grant plays a seemingly nice older man who welcomes two Mormon missionaries into his home.

Halloween may be over, but the scares keep on coming. A24 and Hugh Grant’s new horror movie “Heretic” is launching at the box office this weekend, and it’s made $1.2 million so far in Thursday previews.

The new thriller from 'A Quiet Place' writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods belongs to Grant who delivers a memorable performance

W hen codirectors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods started thinking about who could play the antagonist in their new horror flick Heretic, they knew he had to have a few specific charac

The best sorts of horror films derive their thrills, not from jump scares and gore, but from character, imagery, and tension. And this is where Heretic massively excels. This is a very insightful film designed to question the nature of organized religion,

In Heretic, Hugh Grant plays the villain. He tells Morning Edition that actors are drawn to the bad guys “rather than the dreary, goody-two-shoes lead.”

A24's latest horror film puts religion front and center in this intellectual and visceral psychological thriller about faith, belief and control.