Heretic(2024)

Two Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East), end up at the home of an Englishman, Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). They enter his home after he tells that that his wife is present. After a brief discussion on religion, Reed’s demeanor grows sinister. The ladies try to leave, but Reed keeps them trapped to establish his own view on religions, and his claim of the “one true religion”.

Barnes and Paxton end up in Reed’s basement dungeon, where he claims that they will witness a miracle. An old woman eats a poisoned pie, with Reed saying that she will be resurrected. A Mormon elder comes looking for the ladies, but he fails to notice them when they try to get his attention. The woman seemingly does come back to life, but Barnes and Paxton know it is not a miracle, but rather a trick played by Reed. He slashes Barnes’s throat and says she will be resurrected as well, until he pulls out a metal pin (a contraceptive device) from her arm and tries to make Paxton believe that Barnes wasn’t real and that he reality was an illusion.

Paxton says she knows that what Reed really did was switch out the dead woman with another woman who was given a script by Reed. The woman went off-script and told the missionaries that none of this was real. Paxton then goes down a trap door where Reed has other women kept in cages as part of his ruse, since in his mind, the “one true religion” is controlling others, especially women. Paxton stabs Reed in the neck with a letter opener that Barnes gave her, but he stabs her back before she can escape. Before Reed can finish her off, Sister Barnes is revived momentarily to fatally strike Reed in the head with a pointy wooden plank before she dies for good.

Paxton manages to escape the house but is left unsure of her reality.