‘Heretic’ Trailer: Hugh Grant Lures Pair Of Missionaries Into Cat-And-Mouse Game In A24 Horror Film From ‘A Quiet Place’ Duo

A24 on Tuesday morning unveiled the first trailer for Heretic, a psychological horror film from the A Quiet Place duo of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, which is slated for release in theaters on November 15.

Starring Hugh Grant (Wonka), who plays very much against type — as we were first to report — along with Sophie Thatcher (MaXXXine) and Chloe East (The Fabelmans), the film watches as two young missionaries (Thatcher, East) are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Beck and Woods directed from their own script, also producing alongside Julia Glausi, Stacey Sher, and Jeanette Volturno. Check out the trailer above.

Best known as the writers and executive producers of A Quiet Place, the John Krasinski horror pic that spawned a new franchise after grossing over $340M WW, Beck and Woods are coming off of 65, the sci-fi action thriller starring Adam Driver, which they wrote, directed and produced for Sony. Recently, the pair also exec produced and contributed to the writing of 20th’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which hit theaters last summer.

Most recently unveiling the Julia Louis-Dreyfus drama Tuesday and Annie Baker’s Janet Planet, starring Julianne Nicholson, A24 will next release MaXXXine — the third horror film in a trilogy from Ti West, on the heels of X and Pearl — on July 5.

Other films on the company’s slate for year include the prison drama Sing Sing (July 12) starring Colman Domingo, The Eggers Brothers’ horror thriller The Front Room (September 6), Aaron Schimberg’s darkly comedic thriller A Different Man (September 20) starring an unrecognizable Sebastian Stan, John Crowley’s romance We Live in Time (October 11), starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, and the erotic thriller Babygirl (December 20), marking Halina Reijn’s follow-up to Bodies Bodies Bodies.