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Speak No Evil
2024 110 min United States of America R 16+
★7.0
Horror, Thriller
Director: James Watkins
🎭 Based on
«Speak No Evil»
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Description
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.
Budget:
$15M
US Gross:
$36.93M
Worldwide:
$77.24M
Starring
James McAvoy
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Mackenzie Davis
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Scoot McNairy
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Awards
Saturn Awards 2025
— Best Thriller
Key opinion
Speak No Evil (2024) is widely regarded as a showcase for James McAvoy’s magnetic and terrifying lead performance, which often carries the film despite its conventional structure. While it functions as a competent and accessible psychological thriller for those unfamiliar with the 2022 Danish original, critics and fans remain divided on whether its more mainstream, Hollywood-style ending sacrifices the original’s bleak thematic depth.
| Acting | James McAvoy delivers a mesmerizing and intense performance that serves as the film's most consistent highlight. | |
| Accessibility | The film is more accessible and commercially polished than the Danish original, making it an effective standalone experience for new audiences. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay relies on character behaviors that some viewers find implausible or frustratingly naive to drive the plot forward. | |
| Ending | The final act is highly divisive; some find it a thrilling and necessary departure from the original, while others criticize it as a generic, shallow, or overly convenient conclusion. | |
| Pacing | Pacing is widely considered slow in the first two acts, with opinions split on whether this builds effective tension or creates unnecessary boredom. |