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'Heretic' review: Hugh Grant and horror are a match made in heaven (or hell)

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Heretic is the latest horror offering from writer-director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods .

Hugh Grant's performance provides nonstop terror even as Heretic 's theological frights remain fairly surface level.

Most of this battle of wits plays out in conversation, with Heretic cementing itself as the chattiest horror movie of the year .

Heretic mines its greatest scares not from its questions about religion, but from the age-old truth that it's just really terrifying to be a woman alone with a strange man.

The root of Heretic 's true horror begins with Hugh Grant's performance.

Mr. Reed 's social manipulation of the Sisters is spot-on.