Heretic
Movie • 2024 • Horror
ReportTwo Mormon missionaries attempt to convert a man who turns out to be far more dangerous than they could have anticipated.
This movie contains 40 potentially triggering events.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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theres literally a scene where mr reed talks about how the girls he keeps hostage are under his control because "they want to be", he continues to chop off a girl's finger, where she forgives him.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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eboyisa
This is a heavy aspect of the film
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Are there spiders?
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lethalpazzle
Two or three spiders come out of a pipe in the basement
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Are there bugs?
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Spiders and butterflies
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Is someone drugged?
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Poisoned
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eboyisa
light spoilers: no one is assaulted, but there is a sexual undertone of control at the end of the film
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Are there dislocations?
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A woman bends herself into weird positions and there are cracking sound effects.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Yes. Multiple instances of graphic throat mutilation, including slitting of a throat and stabbing of a throat.
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Is someone choked?
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beepbeep2
No but there are a good number of choking and gagging noises from throat injuries and vomiting.
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Is there amputation?
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Someone gets their finger chopped off
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Does a head get squashed?
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XPippyX
A head gets hit but not really squashed
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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ComeOnTruck
When the pruning shears come out, look away.
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Is someone tortured?
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XPippyX
Yes but it’s not active torture on screen. More of the prisoners being held captive but still suffering being there in specific conditions along with a finger part. Its not like you’re watching Terrifier if your worried about that kind of torture.
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Is someone stabbed?
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bryson
In the room with the caged women, Sister Paxton stabs her captor in the neck. Later, he is stabbed again, shortly after Sister Paxton is stabbed in the stomach like the other comment mentions.
Also, in one of the trailers before the film a man is stabbed in the neck.
Also, in one of the trailers before the film a man is stabbed in the neck.
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Is there excessive gore?
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XPippyX
The only part I’d might say to be weary of is if you see the man hold a box knife to an arm and wait till he is done.
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Death
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Kind of. A person willingly eats poison but it was under duress.
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Family
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A deceased dad is spoken about
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Does a parent die?
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There’s mention of a characters dad being dead but not shown
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A box cutter is used in a violent manner. however there is no razor
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Just watched this:
Look away for a wee while when the girls are trying to light the matches off of the wall. It happens shortly after. I was completely fine for the rest film. This was the only moment so look away then.
Hugh grant wipes a girls mouth who is lying on the ground and says something like “Mucky pup” not sure if he’s wiping away blood or something else ^ but just if this bothers you too there’s the fluid on the ground near her mouth but unsure what as you don’t see!
A great film and shouldn’t be missed!
Stay comfy 💗
Look away for a wee while when the girls are trying to light the matches off of the wall. It happens shortly after. I was completely fine for the rest film. This was the only moment so look away then.
Hugh grant wipes a girls mouth who is lying on the ground and says something like “Mucky pup” not sure if he’s wiping away blood or something else ^ but just if this bothers you too there’s the fluid on the ground near her mouth but unsure what as you don’t see!
A great film and shouldn’t be missed!
Stay comfy 💗
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Is there audio gore?
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XPippyX
More of gurgling due to choking on blood from jugular cut.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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profmegasaurus
Not an actual jail or prison, but women are kept in tiny cages and brutalized while in there.
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beepbeep2
No, but warning for a wrist being cut open with a blade (by someone else).
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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There are people trapped in small cages.
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Woman dies by poisoned pie but unclear whether she knew it was poisoned.
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Is there shakey cam?
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eboyisa
There are small moments of shaky camera movements but it isn’t constant at any point
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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HappyMom
LENGTH WARNING. Although some efforts were made--too much was either dismissed or ignored for the sake of flow of the movie or just willful laziness. If it hadn't been for the efforts of Chloe East continually advocating for more accuracy, the movie would have been a cheesy stereotype of latter-day saints at best and even more harmful than it already was. Latter-day saints as a whole do not believe in reincarnating as animals, or clothing being magical (most latter-day saint women wear underwear underneath religious garments--some women wear it as underwear but that's a personal choice. It has a symbolic hope of the future if covenants are kept, but tales of it doing anything now are just folklore). It's not a normal thing to come to a religious conviction through pornography for this denomination or Christianity as a whole. I've never heard that, most of the time it's a scriptural witness or personal reaching out by God himself. Openly sexual talk may be discouraged (at least at the level of vain disrespect the sisters dove into--very few latter-day saints have seen the Book of Mormon musical for that reason) but birth control on a mission is not. Salvation is not gained by getting a convert, and male missionaries are subject to the same pairing off rules as sisters. The sisters would have had hours each day to study the scriptures, so the girls claiming that Mr. Reed read more of it than they did is suspect. The movie did not allow for rebuttals on some of the topics (which the church does provide)--the sisters just agree with controversies or add some of their own, so talk of it being so respectful is questionable, maybe towards women in general and religious participation in general but not their own denomination. I'm only mentioning the most harmful aspects for length, but just know the entire mission system setup is very off and there's A LOT more details I didn't mention--I just want to be the counter to the idea that no group of people was misrepresented. I don't mind missions being portrayed as dangerous, I don't think that is inaccurate, and I do think that should be listed as a trigger, but the idea of religiously nerdy athiests as being inheritly dangerous for just hating religion and bringing up their theories could lead to unnecessary anxiety for future discussions between Christians and athiests as a whole.
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Is there hate speech?
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HappyMom
LENGTH WARNING. In addition to Mr. Reed who doesn't seem to view organized religion positively (it's just one attack after another), the missionaries are duped into being bullied on the street--it ends up with her skirt being removed. The goal of both people who interact with the sisters is to show their hate in their own way. The missionaries also discuss being made fun of. Showing the women as strong does not compensate emotionally for women when one paints religion in a negative light as more women are religious than men. The movie does not limit it's criticism towards The Church of Jesus Christ but expands it to religion in general and even reflects negatively on atheists. As such this is definitely not a culturally sensitive movie since many minorities may feel their communities are attacked and thus they are. SPOILER It's also been theorized that the movie makers are personally expressing their disdain of organized religion through this, but in socially acceptable ways. The theme is religion is about control. If you are religious you are told that you believe lies and with the sisters admitting to that, nobody is really standing up for your beliefs.
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Religious
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lethalpazzle
The film is very religion-heavy, including questioning religion
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Anonymous
Brief scene showing images of demonic material in a small room
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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lethalpazzle
The opening of the film discusses sexual topics for about 5mins, but nothing visual
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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rebeccamlan
It’s mentioned in a couple sentences that one of the protagonist’s father died of ALS
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Does it have a sad ending?
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XPippyX
Sort of? It’s kind of a spoiler though so keep scrolling if you don’t want to read it.
There is a death.
There is a death.
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