Something very cool, A24 had a special screening of Heretic in Salt Lake City specifically for Mormons and Ex-Mormons. They showed it in two theaters, one that had a door that said "Belief" at the entrance and one that said "Disbelief". They also gave free blueberry pie to everyone. They later had another screening in Salt Lake hosted by the Mormon Stories Podcast that had a live Q and A with Beck and Woods afterwards. It's also worth noting that both Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East are Ex-Mormons in real life. Chloe even has a brother who went on a Mormon mission to Japan.
My favorite horror movie. To make a horror movie this good thats 99% talking about religion....bold and masterful. My only issue with it was that a lot of people thought the ambiguous ending was that she died at the end actually and the whole escape was a hallucination. I chose not to believe that, cuz that would be such a bummer for the ending. It was cool to see that wasnt the intent at all, and it was done that way to be less overt in the other direction of God intervening.
Someone I know complained that the ending was a "deus ex machina". I was like, yeah, that's actually incredibly fitting considering the themes of the movie.
Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for making this video. As a Latter-Day Saint, I loved this film, and it drives me crazy whenever I see people only looking at it deeply enough to validate their beliefs and entirely missing the filmmakers' point. This is not a film bashing religion or faith, it's a film bashing dogmatism and blind certainty. In fact, I think it makes nearly as strong of a case for its characters' faith as it does against it. It's a thought-provoking and ambiguous movie meant to encourage you to think more critically about whatever you believe. I choose to believe not because I'm blindly following what I've been taught my whole life or because it's been scientifically proven (side note: nothing can truly be scientifically proven, so that doesn't really mean anything anyway), but for three main reasons. First, I chose to believe because of a form of Pascalian logic. I found that not only was the eternal destiny outlined by my religion beautiful and worth striving for, but I saw only joy, hope, and happiness in the lives of those who lived it as opposed to those who didn't, and so I found only reasons to believe over reasons not too. With that desire and willingness to believe, I then came to personally experience the love and grace of my Savior, who led me through my darkest times and made me a better, happier man, and I cannot deny that love that dwells in my heart. And finally, with my faith now firmly in my Savior, things started to click. Answers to questions I'd wrestled with for years started to come. As I studied and researched, it just began to make more and more sense. I found logical reason to believe in God, I found evidence of Christ's divinity, and I found overwhelming support for the reality of His restored church. My faith is not blind or based on the words of others, it is deeply personal and extremely logical and well-evidenced. I seek truth above all else, and so I am not threatened by that which challenges my beliefs. I am not dogmatic or fundamentalist, but I consciously choose to believe because I have every reason to do so. And so I can wholeheartedly agree with this film's message that you shouldn't blindly trust authority figures and selectively choose what evidence and logic to accept in order to support your beliefs. Those who do so are blind and disengenuous, and their faith is superficial. Choose your beliefs consciously and wisely, and don't be fooled by people like Mr. Read who feign intellectualism and enlightenment while employing the very tactics they accuse their enemies of using. Additional note on the video: Everyone talks about the butterfly scene, but everyone glosses over the apparent miracle of Sister Barnes resurrecting to save Sister Paxton, in stark contrast to the fake resurrection Mr. Read concocted earlier, leaving us to wonder if their is some divine power on their side after all...
Something very cool, A24 had a special screening of Heretic in Salt Lake City specifically for Mormons and Ex-Mormons. They showed it in two theaters, one that had a door that said "Belief" at the entrance and one that said "Disbelief". They also gave free blueberry pie to everyone.
They later had another screening in Salt Lake hosted by the Mormon Stories Podcast that had a live Q and A with Beck and Woods afterwards.
It's also worth noting that both Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East are Ex-Mormons in real life. Chloe even has a brother who went on a Mormon mission to Japan.
My favorite horror movie. To make a horror movie this good thats 99% talking about religion....bold and masterful. My only issue with it was that a lot of people thought the ambiguous ending was that she died at the end actually and the whole escape was a hallucination. I chose not to believe that, cuz that would be such a bummer for the ending. It was cool to see that wasnt the intent at all, and it was done that way to be less overt in the other direction of God intervening.
Someone I know complained that the ending was a "deus ex machina". I was like, yeah, that's actually incredibly fitting considering the themes of the movie.
Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for making this video. As a Latter-Day Saint, I loved this film, and it drives me crazy whenever I see people only looking at it deeply enough to validate their beliefs and entirely missing the filmmakers' point. This is not a film bashing religion or faith, it's a film bashing dogmatism and blind certainty. In fact, I think it makes nearly as strong of a case for its characters' faith as it does against it. It's a thought-provoking and ambiguous movie meant to encourage you to think more critically about whatever you believe.
I choose to believe not because I'm blindly following what I've been taught my whole life or because it's been scientifically proven (side note: nothing can truly be scientifically proven, so that doesn't really mean anything anyway), but for three main reasons. First, I chose to believe because of a form of Pascalian logic. I found that not only was the eternal destiny outlined by my religion beautiful and worth striving for, but I saw only joy, hope, and happiness in the lives of those who lived it as opposed to those who didn't, and so I found only reasons to believe over reasons not too. With that desire and willingness to believe, I then came to personally experience the love and grace of my Savior, who led me through my darkest times and made me a better, happier man, and I cannot deny that love that dwells in my heart. And finally, with my faith now firmly in my Savior, things started to click. Answers to questions I'd wrestled with for years started to come. As I studied and researched, it just began to make more and more sense. I found logical reason to believe in God, I found evidence of Christ's divinity, and I found overwhelming support for the reality of His restored church. My faith is not blind or based on the words of others, it is deeply personal and extremely logical and well-evidenced. I seek truth above all else, and so I am not threatened by that which challenges my beliefs. I am not dogmatic or fundamentalist, but I consciously choose to believe because I have every reason to do so.
And so I can wholeheartedly agree with this film's message that you shouldn't blindly trust authority figures and selectively choose what evidence and logic to accept in order to support your beliefs. Those who do so are blind and disengenuous, and their faith is superficial. Choose your beliefs consciously and wisely, and don't be fooled by people like Mr. Read who feign intellectualism and enlightenment while employing the very tactics they accuse their enemies of using.
Additional note on the video: Everyone talks about the butterfly scene, but everyone glosses over the apparent miracle of Sister Barnes resurrecting to save Sister Paxton, in stark contrast to the fake resurrection Mr. Read concocted earlier, leaving us to wonder if their is some divine power on their side after all...
Organized atheism killed more people in the 20th century than all religions combined in human history
*takes a massive rip from a bong* What if... *exhales* Jigsaw was an reddit atheist?
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Once this comes to streaming I'm definitely gonna check this out! Love when A24 does weird shit like this!
@@kdusel1991 - Was released on Digital ~7 weeks ago.
He sounds just like his character in Dungeons and Dragons
Good movie.
Thank you.
I've heard it was great!