Don't speak! I know just what you're thinking
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we review Speak No Evil, the 2022 psychological horror thriller film directed by Christian Tafdrup from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mads. It is produced by Jacob Jarek and is distributed by Nordisk Film. Filming took place in Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy, and most of the film is shot in English, with some scenes in Danish and Dutch. The film centers on Bjørn (Morten Burian) and Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch), a Danish couple who are invited by Patrick (Fedja van Huêt) and Karin (Karina Smulders), a Dutch couple, to their country house for a weekend holiday; the hosts soon begin to test the limits of their guests as the situation escalates.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:17 Title Sequence
00:54 Speak No Evil (2022)
01:42 Overall Thoughts
04:29 Flashback to Episode 53
05:13 Favourite Parts
11:13 What We Disliked
15:00 Trivia
21:01 Ratings
21:46 Final Thoughts
23:07 Thank You
23:36 Don't Speak
24:01 Like and Subscribe
The film received an invitation to the Midnight section of the 38th Sundance Film Festival, which included: "horror and comedy works that defy genre classification", where it premiered on 22 January 2022.
Box office
Speak No Evil grossed $631,249 against a production budget of $3.1 million.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 90 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "A social satire with razor-sharp teeth, Speak No Evil offers a darkly delicious treat for fans of misanthropic thrillers." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Sundance Film Festival touted the film as a "brilliantly provocative and simmering satirical work of horror [that] incriminates both sides".
Remake
In April 2023, it was announced Blumhouse Productions was developing a remake of the same name, with James McAvoy attached to star and James Watkins writing and directing. The film is currently set to be theatrically released on 9 August 2024 by Universal Pictures.
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