So, Saturday night we went to see Heretic.
The funny thing is, we hadn't set out to see Heretic. We had agree to go see Here. But I guess when my wife ordered the tickets, either she mistook the words or her phone did some kind of autocorrect and she bought tickets to Heretic instead of Here. I obviously didn't look at her phone, and she didn't look too closely. At the theatre, we walked up to the girl in the hall, she scanned our tickets and said "Theatre #2" and we thought no more of it.
I started getting suspicious when the "Coming Soon" trailers started coming up and they were all for thrillers or horror movies. As the movie began, I realized what had happened, but Heretic started 10 minutes later than Here, so even if we had backed out and tried to go change theatres we would have missed the beginning, assuming the attendants even let us in. I'm not much for horror movies, but I will watch one occasionally. I was more worried about the wife, who dislikes horror more intensely. She agreed to suck it up, though, and we stayed.
I was, of course, intrigued. I'm on the side of anyone who helps expose the fraud of religion, and the bad guy (Hugh Grant) had some nice heretical things to say about religion. Weak and sophomoric arguments, admittedly, but weak and sophomoric arguments are better than no arguments at all. It's no secret that he's a nasty piece of work and he's going to do naughty things to those girls, but until he starts getting really disgusting, it's easy to be on his side.
It does fit the horror genre, yes, but it's not like a mindless slasher flick. Very little outright gore, more of the psychological dread kind of thing.
Three-and-a-half stars, easily!
