"The debate and conversation on the way out of the theater is what we were driving towards," Bryan Woods tells The Hollywood Reporter in conversation with Scott Beck about their horror film starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as Mormon missionaries and Grant as a potential convert.

Mr. Reed is horrifying because these kinds of people exist out there. Granted, it might not be to this extent, where they built an entire house dedicated to what they believe in and staged things to control people, but there are some people out there who are so set in their ideals and beliefs that it permanently alters who they are.