What REALLY happened at the end of Heretic? This is my full movie recap, review and ending explained of the new A24 film, a Hugh Grant horror movie with Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as Mormon Missionaries trapped in a game of cat and mouse with Hugh as the villain. Like & subscribe for more like this, more movie reviews, TV show recaps and what to watch! NEXT: Longlegs Ending Explained - https://youtu.be/LwUaqOQTwwo ✅ My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madmorph ✅ My FREE audiobooks for sleep: https://youtube.com/@DownToSleep ✅ My Gaming Channel: https://www.youtube.com/MadMorph All my links: https://MadMorph.com Join the MadMorph Movie Club, an official channel by @MadMorph for movie analysis, reviews, TV season recaps, reactions, thoughts and more. First time watching, ranked & rated tier lists and more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOOTAGE IS FAIR USE - Everything is edited, transformed and narrated by me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHO IS MADMORPH? Content creator, gaming YouTuber, Audiobook Podcaster, Twitch Partner, & TikTokker, I love movies & TV so this is my channel for talking about that!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COPYRIGHT: This recording and commentary are my own content, created and edited by me, this is the official YouTube channel for MadMorph Movie Club and this content is not reused from anywhere else. All footage is recorded and edited by me, other footage is always fair use ,with unique commentary, review, reaction & edits made by me. For the purposes of entertainment and educational content, constructive review & analysis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro - What is Heretic about? 0:50 Heretic - Full Movie Breakdown 19:00 Heretic Ending Explained 23:00 Alternative Endings 26:00 What did the writer / director say? 28:00 The truth about Barnes and Paxton 30:50 Who is Mr Reed? Why does he do it? 32:00 Heretic Movie Review
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You using the word Kismet warms my heart! It's a beautiful word that's hardly used.
There are no butterflies in a winter garden. The second interpretation of the ending.
Voltaire also quoted "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers".
My problem with the “true ending” is how would she have known that there was a map of the building that she could use to escape? Like, if the whole thing was just a hallucination, she wouldn’t have seen that, because she had really no idea that was in the room.
Two women locked in a building with a Reddit atheist is truly a terrifying concept.
I was terrified the moment I saw the windows were too small to fit through. They were trapped the moment they walked in and didn't even need to play his games. It was over from the start.
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Hugh Grant completely broke free from typecasting in this role. I can't believe this is the guy from Four Weddings and a Funeral. It's incredible.
What’s scary is how Mr. Reed was still able to climb up a ladder after being stabbed in the throat while also being quiet enough to sneak up behind her
the one bad explanation in your true ending :09 is why wouldn't he have the secret exit even if it's just the model. The model was for him and inside of his person office. For someone this meticulous it would actually be weird if he didn't.
The phone gives it away at the end, when she got out it was supposed to get the signal but it didn’t because her mind I think is subconsciously certain that she is still inside therefore she never got out.
The fact that there are sister Paxtons out there is so sad and wonderful at the same time. They are so innocent or naive depending on how you look at it.
I need to shout out that shot of the model house where you can see Paxton navigating it in real time and as she gets to the room of the model hose the camera pans to her entering it. Just really cool direction and cinematography.
i'm a member and hearing you talk about the church is like hearing someone talk about you in the hallway in highschool lol
People may think that a more religious person would lean more into the "happy ending" because the prayer led to a miracle, and she had been saved. However, as someone who is religious (Catholic), I actually think that the True Ending resonates with me more. To know she has kept him from doing this to anyone else and that she is finally at peace at "Heaven's Door" feels more right as an ending. Also, one thing some people may have missed is that I think the plank of wood with 3 nails represents the 3 nails that were driven into Jesus at His death. Symbolically showing Barnes as a savior.
"previous women seemingly joined him willingly" i would say is incorrect as he likely (as shown with these girls) beat them down and destroyed their spirits, putting them in an extremely weakened state so he can manipulate them. We don't know what their experiences with him were or what he threatened them with so such assumptions would be naive. Im also guessing that woman willingly ate the pie because she was in such a sorry state that she welcomed death
I have read so many of these comments, and they are brilliant! The movie clearly wanted people to discuss it, and they were very successful. There are so many different perspectives that I never even thought about! Thank you for posting and than everyone else for commenting! This movie was fantastic.
Just watched this movie last night and something no YouTuber seems to mention as well as Reddit threads is the statues. The statue with green eyes in the hallway moves on its own yet there seem to be no addressing the supernatural elements in the movie
This movie should’ve got much more acclaim. Excellent movie from start to finish which is rare nowadays.
This movie has Plato's Allegory of the Cave written all over it