Hugh Grant Embraces His Horror Villain Destiny in the First Trailer for Heretic

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the duo who conceived the communicative for John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, past co-wrote the screenplay with him—they besides co-wrote 2023 Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman—have a caller communicative of terror: Heretic. The villain is played by Hugh Grant, who’s astatine a constituent successful his vocation wherever he’s not acrophobic to get a small freaky.

Based connected this archetypal trailer for the film, Grant’s quality successful Heretic acold exceeds thing we’ve seen from him successful Wonka, oregon Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, oregon adjacent Paddington 2. This feline has a folksy exterior, sure—but besides evil-mastermind vibes and immoderate precise peculiar ideas astir faith. He besides lives successful an isolated location with immoderate worrisome puzzle-box features. Truly, it’s the worst doorway for a brace of fresh-faced Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) to sound on, which of people is precisely what they do.

Oh no, the deceptive aroma formed by a cloyingly saccharine scented candle! You can’t adjacent spot smells anymore! The blueberry pastry whitethorn beryllium a lie, but the frights successful Heretic definite look similar they could beryllium genuine. Check retired the afloat poster below, and the movie itself—directed and written by Beck and Woods—when it hits theaters November 15.

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