If "A Quiet Place" - the screenplay that put writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods on the map - was a rather tight-lipped, high-concept monster movie where the characters could rarely speak, "Heretic," their latest film,

For decades, Hugh Grant was the ideal romantic-comedy heartthrob, so there’s something darkly subversive about casting him as a religiously minded psychopath who preys upon women in Heretic, a delightfully deviant new film that mixes theology,

Hugh Grant delivers a master class in how charm turned inside-out becomes thoroughly creepy in "Heretic," writes .

Hugh Grant turns his natural charm into a weapon in “Heretic,” a stimulating discussion of religion that emerges from a horror movie wrapper.

That’s the premise, and the clever casting, of “Heretic,” a horror film starring Grant in his least likely role: a total sicko. Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, of “A Quiet Place,” the film features moody cinematography from Chung Chung-hoon (2017’s “It”),