James McAvoy's Speak No Evil Remake Looks Just as Traumatizing as the Original
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“Sometimes it’s ok to think things, but you can’t actually say them,” Mackenzie Davis’ character tells her daughter in the new trailer for Speak No Evil. That attitude is what gets a family of nice but not-very-assertive people in a lot of trouble in this movie—which, we’re going to actually say it, looks like a very faithful remake of the 2022 Danish original.
Also, this must also actually be said: this first trailer pretty much gives away the entire movie. So if you haven’t seen the original—directed and co-written by Christian Tafdrup, who told io9 before its theatrical release that he set out to make “the most disturbing film in Denmark’s film history ever”—and you don’t want to be spoiled, do yourself a favor and don’t watch it.
Beware the family you meet on vacation and then decide would be fun to visit for a weekend getaway, because they might not be exactly who you think they are. They may even be a pack of boundary-pushing, increasingly aggressive sickos! The best part about this trailer is the reveal that James McAvoy is playing the main antagonist, and it certainly looks like he had a blast ripping into the character.
The official synopsis is as follows: “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.”
Along with Davis and McAvoy, Speak No Evil starsScoot McNairy, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, and Daniel Hough. It’s adapted and directed by James Watkins (Eden Lake, The Woman in Black) and will hit theaters September 13.
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