That Controversial 'Heretic' Movie Ending Decision Gets Official Explanation from Director

The directors behind 2024’sHereticfinally provided an explanation for the film’s wild ending.

The 2024 horror film ended in truly confounding fashion.

Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods addressed this wild ending in a recent conversation withFangoria.

Heretic movie ending background, Hugh Grant

Hopefully, it feels inevitable for an audience.

That’s inside bias.

It is a discovery of what the story tells us, as we are its first audience members.

Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed looking at Sohpie Thatcher as Sister Barnes and Chloe East as Sister Paxton in a candlelit room in Heretic

That’s always the fun in filmmaking for us.

You don’t know exactly where it is going to go.

We hope that ride translates to the audience’s experience."

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It’s theme-driven, where we arrive at the end of the movie.

We write from the gut and heart and put ourselves in the characters' shoes."

There’s a degree to which it is instinctual, and it’s beholding the characters."

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We are Sister Paxton.

We’re Sister Barnes, and we are Mr. Reed.

We are fighting it out."

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They even directly addressed the ambiguity of the film’s skin-crawling finale.

In this movie, we are playing with fun payoffs.

We are also playing with a lot of anti-climaxes."

Hereticis now available to stream onMaxin the U.S.

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