The heavens have smiled on and ’ . Critics and audiences are of the belief that their fourth outing as writer-directors is their finest work yet, and it’s been a long time coming considering the Iowa natives’ thought-provoking religious horror movie was conceived before they broke out as the co-writers and originators of . The film is largely a three-hander between two Mormon missionaries, Sisters Barnes ( ) and Paxton (Chloe East), and a potential convert named Mr.
Reed ( ). Upon entering the Englishman’s home in order to peddle the wares of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the two missionaries soon realize they’ve been ensnared in a terrifying game of wits that is meant to test and contradict their faith. Knowing that Barnes and Paxton had knocked on the door of a religious scholar, the childhood best friends turned creative partners had to press the pause button and hit the books before expanding on their initial pages.
“We started writing about 10 years ago, and basically, when we got to the scene where Reed sits down with the two missionaries, we were like, ‘Uh oh, we’re not fluent in Reed’s voice,’” Woods told ahead of their A24 film’s Nov. 8 wide release. “Every time we’d write a line, we’d have to stop and then go to Wikipedia to research something.
It just felt inorganic, and so we did some fun research over the course of 10 years ...
so that it could be a first language once we got further into writing Reed.” To play t.
