Eden Lake and The Woman in Black director James Watkins brings us this staggeringly unsettling helping of holiday horror. It’s a remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name (which is even nastier, if we’re being honest).
When is Speak No Evil being released in Australia?
Speak No Evil is now screening in Australan cinemas.
Speak No Evil (2024)
What is Speak No Evil about?
The friends we make along the way…and the secrets they hide. After they meet on holiday in Italy, London-based American expats Ben and Louise Dalton accept an invitation to spend the weekend with their new friends, happy hippie couple Paddy and Ciara. They dutifully head out of the big smoke to Paddy and Ciara’s bucolic West Country farm, their anxiety-addled daughter Agnes in tow.
Anxiety turns out to be the correct response, as things slowly get more and more unsettling. What does Paddy actually do for a living? Are the amiably adventurous country couple angling for some swinging action? Why doesn’t their son, Ant, have a tongue? That last one would probably be a deal-breaker for us, but it’d be rude to leave—and so the subtle shackles of social convention force our hapless protagonists to stay way, way longer than they ought to.
The cast of Speak No Evil
Scoot McNairy, soon to be seen in Nightbitch, and Terminator: Dark Fate‘s Mackenzie Davis are Ben and Louise Dalton, respectively; a muscled-up James McAvoy is Paddy; Aisling Franciosi, recently seen in Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter, is Ciara; Alix West Lefler is Agnes Dalton; and Dan Hough is Ant—but he doesn’t get a whole lot of dialogue.
Speak No Evil trailer
Why we’re excited about Speak No Evil
Look, the review embargo is still in place at the type of writing. But, hypothetically speaking, if the person writing this had already seen it, they might think it’s a bit of a banger: a slow burn thriller that slowly tightens the noose and effectively uses social awkwardness as a tool of terror. But that’s pure conjecture, you understand.
