'Heretic' is a horror/thriller in which Hugh Grant tricks a couple of LDS sister missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe Grace) into his Colordo mountainside home and proceeds to play faith challenging mind games with them. The film did a good job of throwing me off base, the perspective from which Grant's character seems to approach maters of faith shifts throughout the course of the story, all a part of his mind games. The film asks the audiance to grapel with questions of faith and knowing, a sort of introductory lecture in epistemology, melding existential horror with conventional horror. A lot of picking around the edges can easily be done here, but I thought the movie pretty effective in what it sets out to do. ***
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