Speak No Evil
Directed by Christian Tafdrup
One family accepts an invitation to the rural home of another they met on holiday, only to find their lives altered in unexpected, deeply horrifying ways. From director Christian Tafdrup, SPEAK NO EVIL glides from "squirmy to sinister to full-on shocking" (NY Times). A SHUDDER ORIGINAL
One family accepts an invitation to the rural home of another, where their lives are altered in unexpected, deeply horrifying ways.
Cast: Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Redja van Huet, Karina Smulders
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Powerful, but let down by being so metaphorical that the characters’ behaviour gets increasingly more frustrating and hard to believe. Plus I found the remake, including changed ending, more enjoyable and better directed.
Wow. An ending I kinda saw coming but didn’t want it to happen. However feel like they deserved it. They didn’t fight back at all. And had chances to. Very tense throughout and the last 20 minutes are harrowing.
kind of a slow burn. did not know exactly what to expect at the end, but dang! a movie where politeness, letting boundaries, and miscommunication lead to interesting consequences.
Definitely the most stressful movie I've seen in a long time. In most horror movies that are set in the real world, the scary thing is either something that is a tragic reality for many people, so the movie is just sad, or the circumstances are a clear anomaly, making the action feel like a spectacle (like yes, being hunted by a serial killer or getting into a shipwreck is scary, but is extremely unlikely to happen to me). But here, every escalation almost makes sense, so the connection between everything being fine and the situation the characters end up is never broken, leaving the viewer to feel as helpless as them.