Hugh Grant is in his villain era, playing against his noughties romcom type in Dungeons and Dragons, Paddington 2, Wonka (OK, oompa-loompas aren’t technically bad guys, but they do really creep me out) and now in his first horror, Heretic.

But this is a revolution of setting, not acting. The Hugh Grant tormenting teenage missionaries in his rural, labyrinthine lair (perhaps he always had it in him: the iniquitous Daniel Cleaver’s last name was Cleaver, for God’s sake) is the same Hugh Grant we’ve long known: a bashful shrug, a disarming smile; fast-talking, sheepish, endearingly peculiar.

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