Heretic | Full-Length Reaction
Added 2025-07-14 23:21:14 +0000 UTC
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Freaked me the fuck out lol
Franklin
2025-10-28 17:30:47 +0000 UTCi can’t with your face when sister barnes and mr reed die 😭😭😭 it was gruesome i don’t blame you one bit tho
Camila
2025-10-27 23:23:26 +0000 UTC😂😂😂😂
Franklin
2025-07-21 16:21:52 +0000 UTCThat was a useless circular definition of heretic in the beginning! 😂 I swear, AI is frequently unhelpful or just plain wrong.
ArcAngel
2025-07-18 02:55:32 +0000 UTCthe song at the end is a cover by the girl that plays sister Barnes, Sophie Tatcher! That’s such a sweet detail after hearing how sister Paxton said she liked her singing at the beginning.
Iris
2025-07-17 09:46:57 +0000 UTCI watched this the first time now and I'm still not sure what to think. I want the last girl to survive so hard! The butterlfy may be a symbol of believe. He really "cured" her from her believe system but maybe there is still something left behind control and religion which makes us wonder. She saw the butterlfy and then it was gone and we can't be sure If she isn't still believing in something or not.
Myra
2025-07-16 17:16:39 +0000 UTCPam, I agree! I was so confused/annoyed when he kept saying how terrifying it was that we might be floating on a rock in space with no chance of eternal life. With having no creator or whatever... and I was like, no it's not? What is scary about that? Maybe it is an ego thing for people? The thought of being a cosmic accident, that our existence is actually an insignificant coincidence? What does that reality have to do with me right now? I live my life being kind and empathetic because that is what I am at my core. It's not even a choice, it just is my default. To think that people on earth are only "nice" to each other or follow the law because they want to go to heaven is what is terrifying. Does that mean the entire world would devolve into chaos and depravity if the world was shown definitive proof that a one true god does not exist? That is the implication and THAT is TERRIFYING!
Lailah Johnson
2025-07-16 05:22:37 +0000 UTCAs an atheist who has studied Judaism, Christianity & Islam also a born & raised Catholic and a career spent running a non-profit for The Council of Churches, I appreciate the story he is telling in the beginning. Now don't jump on me yet. I do not approve of kidnapping or murder or scaring innocent people or any such nonsense. I disagree that "disbelief" is terrifying. It is not. I'm often asked why I do "good" things if I don't believe there is a next life that I'm working towards? That is simple. I do good because I believe all we really have is each other and this life we're living. If you need heaven and hell then you have it right here in this life. We go through the best and the worst of times. To me, if you need the threat of hell to be a good person, then you are simply a bad person on a leash. The 4th reaction is fawn btw. This was a role done brilliantly by Hugh Grant IMO. I never really gave him much thought as the romantic comedies I've known him to be in don't really interest me. Both of these girls were great as well. It takes good writing and acting to pull off a movie with such a small cast. This one gets a 👍 from me.
Pam Copling
2025-07-15 16:48:47 +0000 UTCthis movie is such an interesting one. i’m very much an atheist & my mother is more agnostic, she just believes in the universe rather than a god. so watching this movie we both found that we agreed with a lot of what he was saying, he made so many points we ourselves have talked about together… and yet we clearly can’t support him because the way he was going about proving his point was INSANE 😭 as he went on he lost the plot a little but still made some valid points… but what gets me is he criticised religion and what it makes people do but then makes himself no better than them! he took his belief way too far, which i guess is kinda ironic since he was against people doing that with religion.
elise i
2025-07-15 16:13:47 +0000 UTCDo share. I'm sure my opinion won't be popular but everyone's opinions are as important as the next persons. I enjoy reading all of them. Whether or not I agree is not the point.
Pam Copling
2025-07-15 15:28:56 +0000 UTCI just watched a documentary on Jonestown on Sundance (via Amazon). I knew the ins and outs from a previous documentary, but this one was so much better featuring survivors, witnesses, etc. That was some F'ed up shit!
Melissa
2025-07-15 14:34:01 +0000 UTCwOAHHH you're so right, I didn't even catch that about the fast food chains and the iterations! It felt so natural to me because I've lived in a few different places and have absolutely distinguished between those places by saying " oh, it's the same thing, it just goes by a different name for some reason..."
Lailah Johnson
2025-07-15 06:44:02 +0000 UTCI keep coming back and editing my comment because I've been thinking so much about this damn movie!!! These are just some moments that set off bells in my head during this first viewing ***SOME SPOILERS*** - Mr.Reed tells Sister Blondie that the prophets ate that pie due to their extreme faith and he says that it is the same thing as "drinking the Kool-Aid" BUT if you know the true story of that phrase, you would know that it refers to the Jonestown MASSACRE in Guyana. The people of Jonestown were FORCED to drink that cyanide Kool-Aid! They were forced at gunpoint and if they refused, they were injected with cyanide or they were simply shot. That detail is often left out when the story is told, so many people assume that the cult members willingly ended their lives when it is not the case. 900 people were killed by a maniacal psychopath named Jim Jones. He was a heretic in the same way this psycho Mr. Reed was. Just another point showing how Mr. Reed is full of SHIT and twisting the truth to fit his fucked up narrative... -When you talked about how the final sister was made out to be a bit more simple/ditzy than the other sister, I was immediately brought back to their opening conversation. About Magnums being the same as regular condoms, it's just marketing telling us that Magnum is bigger and better.... They marketed Sister Dark-Hair as the brains of the duo, but in the end, they were equally matched. I typed "Sister Dark-Hair because I couldn't remember their names, and that brought up another part about marketing. Our (hopeful) final girl is Sister Blondie, and we all know the stereotypes about dumb blondes, so that also plays a subconscious role in convincing the audience that she's not as intelligent as Sister Dark-Hair, but boy, did she prove us wrong! -When they first go downstairs and Sister Dark-Hair says, "we may not be a physical threat, but we can be an intellectual one," that also calls back to the opening on the bench with the condom ad that said, "Who says size doesn't matter?" Unfortunately, I think that is a dark foreshadowing of their fates because they did succeed in challenging his BS rhetoric, but I fear neither survives the encounter in the end... Overall, I enjoyed this more than I thought I was going to. It definitely kept me on my toes!
Lailah Johnson
2025-07-15 05:46:34 +0000 UTCI reassessed my declaration of coming back to elaborate on my thoughts of this movie and it’s use of the LDS Church. My experiences in no way would add to the discord without causing conflicts so I will refrain from my commentary.
Laura Thate
2025-07-15 05:31:49 +0000 UTCThere is a phenomenal mini series starring Andre Garfield and it's based on a horrible true crime event in the Mormon community in the 1980s(?). It's called "Under the Banner of Heaven" it is such a phenomenal show and Andrew shines in his role. If you like stories where a character is forced to reckon with his core beliefs in a profoundly life altering way, I highly recommend you give it a try.
Lailah Johnson
2025-07-15 03:57:39 +0000 UTCRed flag 🚩 1 “oh by the way girls, the floors and the walls are made of metal” meaning there’s no way to get cellular calls in or out. This is just a response. I have not watched the movie. I just started when I heard the question about counting red flags. I’m going to come back and have a lot to say about this movie I fear.
Laura Thate
2025-07-15 03:17:15 +0000 UTCYou know, on second watch this movie’s ending landed better. I was super mad the first time I watched. But I sort of like the ambiguous ending on second watch. If nothing else, those sisters killed a monster and his crimes will be found. If she dies they will find her body and find the house, full of bodies. And potentially women still alive inside. If she lives she can save those women and tell what happened.
Stefan and Erin S
2025-07-15 03:01:18 +0000 UTCPhew!! That was crazy. And what a beautiful and sad ending. I kinda can’t wait to rewatch it. There’s so many “iterations” metaphors throughout it I can remember and I’d love to see what I can catch on a rewatch. Even at the beginning, sister Paxton talking about the different fast food chains and saying “that one is the east coast version of this one”. The way different version of the same thing came up again and again. Like with the doors leading to the same place. The songs. The games. The religious text. Iterations. Wild. And how dare they weaponize that Hollies song hahaha. It features in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and I love it lol. Great movie if you haven’t seen.
Broody Gaming
2025-07-15 02:54:34 +0000 UTCI get it with being intrigued by Mr. Reed and also hating everything he’s doing. I went to a catholic high school but spent a lot of time studying other religions and deconstructing the Bible in college, and a lot of his whole Monopoly spiel basically sums up years of my education but he does it in such a condescending way it makes me feel angry.
Tess D
2025-07-15 01:25:32 +0000 UTCThe 4th response is called "Fawn"
Melissa
2025-07-14 23:55:10 +0000 UTCNot my dumb ass getting this mixed up with Conclave thinking “when are the Catholics coming in to the story” hahaha 😂 omfg.
Broody Gaming
2025-07-14 23:48:41 +0000 UTCFranklin, you’re one of my favorite creators I’ve found recently. I feel like everything you watch is stuff I love or stuff I’m interested in seeing. You’ve got great content, thank you for sharing it with all of us. It’s rare for me to agree with someone like 99% of the time 😂 -Erin PS I had mixed feelings about this movie, I felt the ending fell sort of flat to me but the rest of the movie was really thrilling to me. I did find it scary but more in a psychological/realist horror sort of way. But I’m someone who digs into religious philosophy on a regular basis just out of an innate interest in it, so this kind of movie also appeals to a lot of my personal niche interests lol
Stefan and Erin S
2025-07-14 23:29:53 +0000 UTC
