Heretic

2012

Horror

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 18%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 18%
IMDb Rating 3.2/10 10 389 389

Director

Peter Handford Photo
Peter Handford

Top cast

Tom Woolmore Photo
Tom Woolmore as Studly Young Man
Emily Pritchard Photo
Emily Pritchard as Giggling Girl
Holly Macve Photo
Holly Macve as Giggling Girl
Janet Clift Photo
Janet Clift as Yummy Mummy
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865.96 MB
1280*546
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 1
1.74 GB
1920*818
English 5.1
NR
25 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 3 / 10

Where was the horror...?

Despite never having heard about the 2012 horror movie "Heretic", from director Peter Handford then I opted to watch it, as I stumbled upon it here in 2025. Yeah, I am a sucker for all things horror.Writers Bethany Clift and Peter Handford put together a script and narrative that was a bit sluggish and slow paced. There wasn't a whole lot of interesting or thrilling things happening throughout the course of the narrative. And that made for a somewhat dull viewing experience. I am not saying that "Heretic" was a downright bad movie, not at all, it just lacked elements to keep the storyline interesting for the viewers.I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and that is actually something that spoke in favor of the movie, as I enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen when I watch a movie. The acting performances in the movie were fair enough.This is not a movie that I would recommend to horror fans, as the movie proved to be somewhat dull and devoid of scary contents. And it definitely is not a movie that will grace my screen a second time.My rating of director Peter Handford's 2012 movie "Heretic" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.
Reviewed by jill_grant-rowe 3 / 10

A valiant effort but pretty bad

This film was apparently a first time effort for its makers and with that in mind was not too awful…. The acting was not bad, pretty natural in fact, but was not helped by a script that lacked logic and progression and some dodgy direction. Quite often the characters seemed to have forgotten something they said a couple of minutes before and drama was forced into the script rather than created by writing craft and careful direction. This made some of the characters almost unbearable to watch, the policeman for example. The script writer could maybe have researched police procedure, shouting "I am a police officer…" does not grant much at all. The cinematography was professional and the sound track was OK though a little over powering at times.
Reviewed by brendan-821-654855 3 / 10

I suspect that some of the glowing reviews were written by crew members, or friends of the director

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