Heretic - Movie Review

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Mormon Sister Missionaries stumble into a game of cat & mouse revolving around religious debate. Here's my review for HERETIC!

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[Kango]

There is something funny about the thought that missionaries come to his house enough that he just built a trap for them.

[commandZee]

Could be worse... They could've knocked on Diddy's door.

[LoveStallion]

Latter-day Saints here. This movie has certainly been sending ripples through the community. Every missionary (and parent's) worst nightmare. I dealt with plenty of interesting characters on my mission.

[terrellwhited]

The biggest surprise of this review? Jeremy's knowledge of mormon customs and culture

[Erasureeraser]

I think this movie seems very personal for Sophie Thatcher who played Sister Barnes as her family are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Seems like her performance has so much weight behind it because she believes in the words that she and the other characters were saying

[georgieboy]

"Good time, no alcohol required" perfect for a movie with LDS (mormons) in it 😆😂

[DrYes]

I thought it built up the tensions in the first half very well, but the climax left a lot to be desired. It was a sophisticated build up for an rushed conclusion.

[LETSRUNUNLV]

When i was a missionary in argetina for a the LDS church, got invited into a home by a dude who tried to lock us in there and give us drugs and tell us we were wrong.

Honestly, scary. I loved my mission, but got put in some scary situations.

I’ve been watching Jeremey for like what, a decade?

Dude seems to clearly have someone he knows that’s Mormon cause he seems like he genially knows about us and what we believe hahaha.

Great stuff Jeremy!

[amateur_artist]

As a woman who once served an lds mission, I would say there is obviously some risk involved though sisters are usually placed in nicer areas and missionaries have many rules for their own safety. However, there are times where sisters are moved out of areas or sent to different missions due to stalkers or men who were a little too interested. My grandmothers advice before i left to serve my mission was "don't be too pretty." Good review! Always enjoy your videos

[jeremyfinch]

Trust me...the male missionaries encounter "this guy" multiple times a month. I remember knocking doors in a remote pueblo of Spain with my comp and this older dude seemed like he'd been waiting for us to show up for a decade. Was nice enough, dirt poor, but we mistook his intention to be interest in learning about God/Jesus and on the 2nd visit, he'd made us some strange fruit compote...my comp took a bite (and evidently only pretended to swallow) and gave me the "sign" that we needed to leave ASAP. So I spoke up as suddenly remembering we needed to be somewhere else and so we left quickly. Comp spit out what was in his mouth as soon as the guy closed the door behind us. "There were drugs or something smashed in that crap!" My comp was transferred a few weeks later and me, like and IDIOT (and bc we had no other leads) took my new comp to this guy's place. After 2 mins of chat, he put his hand on my legs and suggested something rather unmissionary to me. We left...not running, but quickly.
The "sign" you ask? When a Spanish speaking missionary touches his ear, nose, then jaw (Ir Nos Ya!) it means "Let's get the FETCH outta here!"

[TimberTaipei]

I served a mission in Siberia 20 years ago. Some poor drunk lady got murdered/or severely injured (My russian was a little green) in our apartment building overnight after arguing with another drunk neighbor over a stolen phone. A Russian police office started slamming on our door the next morning. I had a new missionary with me at the time fresh off the plane. (Missionaries are always in twos) The officer accused us of partying all night, getting drunk and murdering the lady. I thought he was looking for a bribe, and didn't believe my ears when he accused me of murder and assumed he was lying. Ripped our metal door open, and pushed his way inside. Immediately saw a bunch of pictures of Jesus, open bibles, and copies of the Book of Mormon, and us wearing shirts and ties. My companion was scared to death as was I.

He sat down and listened to us for an hour. Even got a lesson on chastity and why many of us wait for marriage. Mainly after asking us if we "experienced" the local Russian girls. Haha! I still think about that dude. All those people actually. That side of the world actually. ;(

[brgardner]

I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Like many of my fellow members, I can assure you that it is completely against the rules for our sister missionaries to be alone with a man. It's also against the rules for the male missionaries to be alone with a woman.

[jonbaxter]

What a great little surprise this film was.

I was glad it didn't go the direction I was thinking, yet it remained truly chilling.

[austinknighton]

I served a mission myself, had a gun pulled on me a few different times😂 usually sisters are put in MUCH SAFER areas and almost always with a car for safety, but I got some calls on my mission about some SITUATIONS😂

[EyedMite]

Jeremy jahn lds member here! Yeah sister missionaries usually go to the calm safe areas. But that doesn’t stop them from coming across disturbing people still. Also it’s a rule that missionaries can’t go into a room with some one of the opposite gender with out a member from a local area .

[GuyverII]

"You know, that one guy that lost his mind on Facebook." Woof, had two friends just do that in the past 3 days. Completely unhinged and had to mute them.

[JustinZarian]

I served in England from 09-11 and we had some crazy situations. One sister missionary had a convert she taught not only stalk her, but cyber stalked members of her family on Facebook. The Church brought in lawyers to place a restraining order on the man and threatening further action if he even attempted to talk to her again, but it was still a traumatic experience that the guy was creeping on her for so long. She thankfully didn’t let it get her down in the long run though, which was inspiring.

We also had areas that were explicitly no go’s for sister missionaries due to safety concerns. Made me sad that people would think of harassing them, especially once I became a district leader and had to keep an eye on some Sisters along with the other Elders (Elders can get threatened too, but not in the same ways).

Still active after all these years and even wrote a study about Non LDS depictions of LDS characters for my master thesis. Curious how this one fares

[jorgemendez]

Jump to 1:15 if you wanna skip the advertise at the beginning

[nomadthenative]

Heretic was like a saw movie with a God complex…and less gore. 7/10

[whutch]

I never got that impression as him being the facebook guy. My interpretation was more, here’s a guy who has been studying and searching for the right religion for him all his life, finds his one true god, and this is how he engages in communion with that god. Thought it was a great premise for a villain and Hugh Grant killed it!