As someone who sees upwards of 100 movies every year, I’m not going to sit here and say I’ve totally avoided horror films on the 2024 movie release schedule, but I am a known horror movie hater here at CinemaBlend.

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.

Hugh Grant turns his natural charm into a weapon in “Heretic,” a stimulating discussion of religion that emerges from a horror movie wrapper.

We have no illusions that when people watch ‘Heretic’ they’re going to go, ‘Wait, did they use generative AI?'” Woods said. “It doesn’t feel like that at all, but it was important for us to put that out there because we think it’s something people need to start talking about.