The Heretics (2017) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show
you a supernatural horror film: "The Heretics"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins on a dark night in the middle of the woods. A group of people wearing white
robes and wooden masks, are gathered around an altar, where a young teenage girl is currently
lying on top. She is struggling against the binds, that are holding her to the altar.
The cult is all chanting in unison. Each one of them is holding a sharp knife. They all
raise their blades, and suddenly slit their own throats. Blood then rains down on the girl.
Five years later, the girl, now an adult, wakes up in her bed in a cold sweat.
Her name is Gloria, and the memories of that night still haunt her. Her mother
comes inside her room, and comforts her. The next morning, her mother tries to talk to her
about her trauma, but Gloria avoids the topic. Gloria attends a survivors' support group
meeting with her girlfriend, Joan. A woman who escaped an abusive marriage, recounts her story
in tears. She shares that she's having trouble with forgiveness and moving on.
Joan pipes up that there's no forgiveness for people, who hurt other people like that.
She herself had been the victim of her father's abuse. She suggests that the only recourse is
revenge. Joan gets kicked out of the meeting, for encouraging negativity in the group.
Later on, while serving lunch in the women's shelter, Joan tells Gloria that she will no
longer attend meetings there, since they're not a good fit for her beliefs. A male member
of the shelter staff interrupts them, and surprises Gloria by touching her shoulder.
Ever since her traumatic kidnapping, she finds it hard to be touched by people.
Gloria recoils, and drops the bowl of soup she was holding. When the man tries to touch her
shoulder again to ask her if she's alright, Joan steps in, and tells him to go away.
That night, while in bed, Joan asks Gloria if she could go back in time, and stop her kidnapping,
would she choose to do so even if it means she and Joan would never have met?
Gloria replies that she would choose to take a different street that night, and avoid a
traumatic experience. but she thinks that she and Joan would have found each nevertheless.
Joan determinedly says that she would endure every physical blow from her father again, if it means
that she will meet Gloria. Gloria softly whispers that they will always find each other.
Joan hops out of bed, and retrieves a small jewelry box from her drawer. She opens it,
and shows her girlfriend a necklace she's giving her as a gift. But this is not her anniversary
gift yet. She will give that to Gloria, at their anniversary celebration the next day.
The two women part ways a few hours later. Gloria finds herself walking along a dark street.
There's a camper van parked on the sidewalk, and the cushion of the seats distracts Gloria.
A man suddenly appears and kidnaps Gloria. The next morning, Gloria wakes up, chained to the
floor of the man's camper van. He's driving her somewhere. She slowly gets up, and tries to get
her phone from her bag, which her kidnapper left nearby. Gloria manages to dial her mother, but she
doesn't pick up the phone. The kidnapper turns around, and sees what Gloria is doing. He kicks
the phone out of her reach, and douses a piece of cloth with chloroform. The kidnapper stops the
car, and forces the cloth on Gloria's nose. She inhales the chloroform and passes out again.
Joan arrives at the shelter, and looks around for Gloria. She's a
bit worried since Gloria is late. The kidnapper reaches his destination.
He steps out of the camper van, cradling Gloria's unconscious body. He takes her
inside a cabin in the middle of the woods, and chains her to the wall.
Gloria dreams of the night she was kidnapped by the cult. She had woken up on their altar, with
blood all over her. Then she saw the dead bodies of the cult members, lying around the altar.
Gloria wakes up from her dream, and finds herself inside the cabin. as he walks toward her,
She sees that the kidnapper has a scarred face. He's holding a bowl of water, and offers it
to her. The kidnapper also vaguely says that she just needs to last until sunrise tomorrow morning,
and he's doing this to save her. Joan calls Gloria's mother looking for
her. The mother does not know her whereabouts as well. When she plays her voicemails,
she realizes that Gloria's screams were recorded. They report her disappearance to the police,
who do not seem to take things seriously. In response, Joan organizes a search party
of her own, that will canvas the neighborhood near Gloria's house.
Back in the cabin, Gloria demands that her kidnapper tell her why he's doing this.
He reveals that he was a member of the cult, who had kidnapped her five years earlier.
When he saw her that night being led to the altar, he began to doubt his faith.
He couldn't bring himself to participate in the ritual, so he only pretended to kill himself.
Joan learns from Gloria's mother that the police have found the necklace,
that she gave Gloria on the street. Meanwhile, the kidnapper gets a vision
that Gloria's leaning in close to kiss him. The vision disappears, and he realizes that
Gloria is choking on blood. He forces her mouth to open, so she can breathe.
Joan grows more desperate in her search for her girlfriend. She knocks on the door of one of
Gloria's neighbors. But the man is indifferent, and just shrugs. She gets enraged by his
nonchalance, so she pulls a knife on him. The man gets scared, and answers her more respectfully.
Joan apologizes for her rudeness and leaves. Gloria starts to have delusions. She thinks that a
cult member is coming toward her, but it turns out to be just the kidnapper waking her up. She's also
burning up with fever now. The kidnapper promises her again that when the sun rises, her ordeal will
be over. She then asks him how he got his scars. The kidnapper shares that growing up in the cult,
he never fully subscribed to their beliefs. The same policeman comes to Gloria's house. He
suspects that Joan has something to do with Gloria's disappearance, because of
her violent tendencies. She suddenly pulls out her knife and stabs the policeman. She points
the knife at Gloria's mother, and demands that she tell her where she's hiding Gloria. In her
frustration, Joan slits the mother's throat. The kidnapper explains to Gloria that five years
ago, the cultists sacrificed themselves during the ritual, so they could implant their demon god,
Abaddon, inside Gloria's body. The ritual was conducted under a locust moon, which only happens
every five years. Another locust moon will occur the next night, and the remaining cult member
is hellbent on getting Gloria, to use her body to accomplish Abaddon's rebirth on Earth. Obviously,
The kidnapper took Gloria, before the cultists could get to her, so he can save her that way.
If she lasts until the next sunrise, without the cultists performing the ritual on her, Abaddon
will not be reborn, and Gloria will be saved. Joan returns to her apartment, and opens
the secret passageway that leads to a pagan altar. She kneels in front of it,
and prays for Abaddon's forgiveness. This means that Joan is actually a cult member, and inserted
herself in Gloria's life, so she can use her body as Abaddon's vessel. This also explains why Joan
was so angry when Gloria disappeared. To atone for her mistakes, she begins to self-flagellate.
Back in the cabin, Gloria is growing sicker and sicker. She's pale and sweaty, and is also
beginning to have hallucinations of a horned demon, standing in front of her. She tells the
kidnapper that her back hurts. When he looks at it, there are two dark holes protruding from it.
This comes as a shock to him, because he thought that the cult's beliefs were not true.
The kidnapper has another hallucination where Gloria seduces him. But she suddenly turns
into the demon Abaddon. The kidnapper wakes up, and is left with the realization that
Gloria could really be birthing a demon. Meanwhile, a man reports to Joan that he saw
a man with a scarred face, driving a camper van in front of Gloria's house. Something in
Joan's memory clicks, and she takes a male shelter staff with her to drive her.
Gloria begs the kidnapper to at least let her tell her friend.
But the kidnapper reveals that Joan is actually his sister, who was a hardcore member of the cult.
She was the chosen one to stay alive, and conduct the ritual that would bring forth Abaddon. The
scars on Joan's back were never inflicted by their father, but were actually self-inflicted.
Gloria weakly stands up. The same horned demon chases her through the house. She escapes through
a window, and stumbles into the kidnapper. At this point, Gloria's eyes are now blue, and her hair is
falling off. There's also a pair of black wings sprouting from her back. She accepts with horror
that she's turning into the demon Abaddon. Meanwhile, Joan finds out the man with the
scarred face, was her estranged brother. She also knows that he possibly took Gloria to
their family cabin. So she ordered the staff to take her there. They arrive,
and confirm that Gloria is there. When he isn't looking, Gloria stabs the male staff.
Gloria's transformation is nearing its completion. The kidnapper decides that he should just kill
her, to end her pain. So he points his shotgun at her, but can't bring himself to pull the trigger.
He lowers his gun. A second later, Gloria says in a demonic voice that when Abaddon rises,
he will take the kidnapper's soul first. A flashback reveals that it was Joan,
who scarred the kidnapper's face with fire, as punishment for his doubtful thoughts.
The kidnapper goes out to investigate the noise he heard. It turns out to be
Joan. She knocks her brother unconscious. Joan then shows herself to Gloria. She taunts
her transformation, and even mocks her by showing her the knife blade she was going to give her,
as an anniversary gift. Gloria screams at her face that she hates her.
The kidnapper wakes up in a locked room in the cabin. He can see Gloria and Joan through the
slats. Joan tells her brother that he should beg for his soul now, because Abaddon is coming.
Joan puts on the white robe, and begins chanting. The spirits of all the dead cult members,
appear behind her and join in the chanting. Suddenly, the kidnapper breaks out of the locked
room through the window. He takes an ax, and tries to break open the door. But Abaddon subjects him
to another hallucination. This time, he's in the middle of a field, and Gloria is in front of him,
wearing the dress she was wearing five years ago. She urges him to repent, so he can be saved.
But the kidnapper perseveres and escapes the hallucination, by whacking Gloria with the ax.
The truth is that the one he had hit, was actually Joan. He grabs the gun;
but Abaddon tricks him again, and he realizes that he had turned the barrel toward his own head.
He drops the gun, and grabs a shovel. Abaddon appears in front of Gloria. The kidnapper
takes the shovel, and kills Joan with it. He takes the weak Gloria, and carries her out
of the cabin, so she can see the sunrise. It appears that he has saved the girl. But she turns
and looks at him with so much hate, as she says that she promised she will take his soul first,
and he will burn for eternity. It turns out, Joan did succeed, and Abaddon has been reborn.
The movie ends with Abaddon's wings sprouting from her back, and her scream piercing the sky.
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