"The debate and conversation on the way out of the theater is what we were driving towards," Bryan Woods tells The Hollywood Reporter in conversation with Scott Beck about their horror film starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as Mormon missionaries and Grant as a potential convert.

W hen codirectors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods started thinking about who could play the antagonist in their new horror flick Heretic, they knew he had to have a few specific charac

The best sorts of horror films derive their thrills, not from jump scares and gore, but from character, imagery, and tension. And this is where Heretic massively excels. This is a very insightful film designed to question the nature of organized religion,