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Heretic doesn't play out with the typical levels of jump scares and macabre we're used to from horror films these days — rather it's a battle of wits in which the characters contemplate belief, religion, and faith… oh, and an adult man is terrorizing two young women as they're held captive in his house, which becomes a maze of.. Whatever the response, the journey to that point is compelling—a miracle because "Heretic," despite its marketing, is primarily a drama of ideas—at least in intent. The writer-director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have cleverly trojan-horsed an extended treatise on religion into a horror-thriller. Yes, there are jump scares.

The film is less concerned with being a consistently thrilling horror movie filled with jump scares, instead wanting you to ponder further on the messages.. At its core, "Heretic" is a dark, masterful game of cat and mouse that is genuinely terrifying. The film excels in building dread through escalating psychological warfare rather than overt violence.