Speak No Evil

9/9/20221h 38m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

Overview:

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

Director:

Christian Tafdrup

Status:

Released

Language:

Danish

Buget:

$3,200,000.00

Revenue:

$631,249.00

Key words:

friendship
husband wife relationship
countryside
denmark
italy
manipulation
restaurant
netherlands
babysitter
family vacation
biting
hard
disturbed
hostile
hopeless
grim
dreary
children in danger
direct
negative
intense
depressing
authoritarian
bold
cruel
frustrated
gloomy
harsh
pessimistic

Cast

Morten Burian

~ as ~

Bjørn

Sidsel Siem Koch

~ as ~

Louise

Fedja van Huêt

~ as ~

Patrick

Karina Smulders

~ as ~

Karin

Liva Forsberg

~ as ~

Agnes

Marius Damslev

~ as ~

Abel

Hichem Yacoubi

~ as ~

Muhajid

Lea Baastrup Rønne

~ as ~

Fie

Jesper Dupont

~ as ~

Jonas

Sieger Sloot

~ as ~

Waiter

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Reviews (2)

Nathan
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
Speak No Evil is an eerily realistic horror film that created incredible tension with the simplest interactions. Each incident escalates beyond comfortability leaving the family with the option of politeness or confrontation, with them choosing the former the entire movie. The scenes create a sense of awkwardness, where the audience is begging the family to remove themselves from the situation, but they remain. This is positive and a negative for the film. These choices the family make kept me engaged to see what happens next. But at the same time, it was incredibly frustrating to see baffling character choices be the vehicle for the plot. Despite that fact, the tension is built and remains throughout the runtime. Even though this movie had periods where it was quite slow, they never stayed for long without another problem being added to the list. I enjoyed it, but there are pacing problems that restricted me from being fulling ingulfed in the film.

Score: 70% | Verdict: Good
Dean
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
First of all, let me say that I don't rate movies based on happy ending or bad ending. I rate them by their impact. If movie had an impact on you, if it affected you, this means movie was strong and achieved its goal, doesn't matter if it's a positive or negative impact. And Based on my criteria, this movie is 10/10! This movie actually traumatized me. I have seen a lot of horror movies, but this one affected me a lot, because unlike those paranormal movies about demons, devil and etc, this one is realistic, which means this what happened in this movie, might be happening in real somewhere. And when we - viewers watch movies, we feel for main characters and what I felt for them in this movie was very big pain. It left me very angry and whole night I had last scenes in my mind when I was lying in bed, because I was imagining what if I was in their place... I won't give you a spoiler, but be warned, if you're sensitive person and if you decide to watch it, it will traumatize you. It's a masterpiece, but with a very sad and bad ending.