Speak No Evil | 'Speak More Evil' - James AcAvoy, Mackenzie Davis

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When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

From Blumhouse, the producer of The Black Phone, Get Out and The Invisible Man, comes an intense suspense thriller for our modern age, starring BAFTA award-winner James McAvoy (Split, Glass) in a riveting performance as the charismatic, alpha-male estate owner whose untrammeled hospitality masks an unspeakable darkness.

Speak No Evil stars Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate, Halt and Catch Fire) and SAG award-winner Scoot McNairy (Argo, A Quiet Place Part II) as American couple Louise and Ben Dalton, who, along with their 11-year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler; The Good Nurse, Riverdale), accept the weekend-holiday invitation of Paddy (McAvoy), his wife Ciara (Aisling Franciosi; Game of Thrones, The Fall) and their furtive, mute son Ant (newcomer Daniel Hough).

Written for the screen and directed by James Watkins, the writer-director of Eden Lake and the award-winning gothic ghost story The Woman in Black, Speak No Evil is based on the screenplay of the 2022 Danish horror sensation Gæsterne, written by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup. That film earned 11 Danish Film Awards nominations, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.

Speak No Evil is produced by Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s, M3GAN) for Blumhouse and by Paul Ritchie (McMafia, The Ipcress File) and is executive produced by Beatriz Sequeira for Blumhouse, Jacob Jarek and Christian Tafdrup.
Transcript
00:00Speak no evil is inspired by a really good horror film that came out of Denmark
00:04I thought the film was incredibly well made and Christian had done a fantastic job
00:07And I was very excited to direct this adaptation
00:12This is my husband Ben Patrick fell
00:14This is my wife Kira like in the movie
00:16I had an experience with my own family where we met a Dutch family in Italy the new friends and they invited us to
00:23Visit them. Listen, you have to come and visit. We did not say yes. Yeah done
00:29But I just started imagining what would have happened and I thought it could be a pretty scary film
00:37Blumhouse called me after my film premiered and wanted to do a remake
00:43Something's not right
00:47I'm very happy that James directed a take on our story
00:52They're gonna kill us
00:54He's just a great director and you also have flair for
00:58Uncomfortable situations, which I also like I'm just sad to see you go
01:04You guys have been just a breath of fresh air
01:07It was interesting to push into some new areas. You've got a nail that's bad luck
01:12That's the purpose of a remake
01:15It is quite a different film. We chewed the original and we pushed it as far as we could
01:24Speak no evil

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