Key Takeaways
- Heretic is now on digital streaming platforms for purchase or rental, with a possible DVD release in January 2025.
- Movie examines deep questions about religion, life, and death, while also offering great pacing and action.
- Writers of Heretic said the movie idea had been planned for years, with Hugh Grant delivering a notable performance.
Whether or not there are any future sequels, the 2024 horror movie Heretic has gotten people talking. Now, if horror audiences didn’t get the opportunity to watch it in theaters when it was released in October 2024, they can finally see why the film got so much attention.
According to Variety, Heretic is on digital streaming now. Fans can purchase the movie in digital form for $24.99 or rent it for $19.99 on video-on-demand platforms such as Apple TV and Prime Video. The publication noted that there is no confirmation for when Heretic will be released on DVD, but they think that could happen in January 2025.
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Heretic tells the story of two missionaries from the Mormon Church who knock on the door of Mr. Reed (Grant), which turns into a nightmare. The movie examines questions about religion, spirituality, life, and death. While it could be considered an excellent elevated horror movie, it’s also a movie with great pacing and lots of action. Heretic was critically acclaimed and has a 91% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, along with a 77% rating on the Popcornmeter. The movie grossed $27,504,451 domestically and $41,449,095 worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, the writers and directors of Heretic, wrote the first movie in the A Quiet Place franchise, along with the fantastic 2019 horror movie Haunt. They spoke to Deadline about coming up with the premise of Heretic and said:
”
Heretic
was something that Bryan and I had just been scratching at — the idea of religious ideologies Trojan horsing into a genre movie — for years and years.”
As Deadline reported, Heretic was a box office hit right away and earned back its budget of fewer than $10 million opening weekend. Beck addressed this and said filmmakers need to:
“think creatively about how do we get movies made in this landscape right now, especially coming from the viewpoint that we love movies that aren’t based on anything else, and ostensibly are original stories.”
It’s worth checking out Heretic to see what all the buzz and hype is about, as well as seeing Hugh Grant’s performance. Grant has a fascinating film resume, including a 1980s gem people forgot about, and he isn’t known for his work in the horror space. However, Grant played a complicated and mysterious character in the HBO drama The Undoing, and he clearly has the talent necessary to take on these types of roles. It’s fun to see Grant as a villain in Heretic since he typically plays charming people in romantic comedies.
By the time that audiences get to the end of Heretic, they’re definitely going to want to watch it again and put all the puzzle pieces together.
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