SPOILER WARNING: The following article gives away the entire plot of 2022’s original Speak No Evil , so don't we didn't speak up to warn you before you read on. I will never forget the first time I watched the original Speak No Evil , which depicts a Danish family’s troubling visit with a Dutch family they met on holiday. A social media post describing the thriller as one of the most shocking and upsetting films in a while sparked my morbid curiosity, so I used my Shudder subscription to give it a try.
While it is certainly a slow-burn horror movie , the payoff it leads to is, indeed, a distressing and scarring experience that cements it as one of the best horror movies of 2022, in my opinion. With an upcoming Blumhouse movie based on director Christian Tafdrup’s masterpiece coming soon, I figured I would be brave, face my trauma and revisit the film that inspired the new horror movie about an American family’s troubling experience with an English family. I must say that even with what I know now, it is still every bit as maddening and stomach-churningly bleak as I remembered.
Prepare yourself for the American version of Speak No Evil — coming to theaters September 13 — by reliving (or discovering) the Danish shocker that started it all through my own experience below. An Early Dinner Sets Up The Film's Thesis I felt that Speak No Evil was a horror movie worthy of an Oscar nomination for the ingenious ways the screenplay by Tafdrup and his brother Mads sets up the.