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Speak No Evil (2024)

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Speak No Evil
Credits
Title: Speak No Evil
Directed by: James Watkins
Written by: James Watkins
Produced by: Jason Blum; Christian Tafdrup; Beatriz Sequeira; Jacob Jarek; Jennifer Scudder Trent; Jon Romano; Igor A. Nola; Paul Ritchie; Andrew Bonner
Based on: Speak No Evil
Music by: Danny Bensi; Saunder Jurriaans
Cinematography: Tim Maurice-Jones; Mark Moriarty
Edited by: Jon Harris
Production
Production: Universal Pictures
Blumhouse Productions
Croatian Film Association
Distributors: Universal Pictures
Released: September 4th, 2024
Rating: R
Running time: 110 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
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Speak No Evil is an American feature film of the psychological suspense thriller subgenre of horror. It is a remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name. It was written and directed by James Watkins and produced by Blumhouse Productions and the Croatian Film Association. It was presented by and distributed through Universal Pictures. It premiered at Fantasy Filmfest in Germany on September 4th, 2024. It was released theatrically in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada on September 13th, 2024. The film stars Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy as Louise & Ben Dalton - a London couple who, along with their daughter Agnes, played by Alix West Lefler, meet a free-spirited English family consisting of Paddy, wife Ciara and mute son Ant while vacationing in Italy. At the conclusion of their vacation, Paddy and Ciara invite the Daltons to come visit them at their country farmhouse. Tensions quickly develop as the Daltons come to learn that Paddy may be something other than the gregarious host that he portends to be.

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Cast[]

Actor Role
James McAvoy Paddy
Mackenzie Davis Louise Dalton
Scoot McNairy Ben Dalton
Aisling Franciosi Ciara
Alix West Lefler Agnes Dalton
Dan Hough Ant
Kris Hitchen Mike
Motaz Malhees Muhjid
Jakob Højlev Jørgense Torsten

Notes & Trivia[]

  • The tagline for this film is "Hear no evil".
  • Plot elements from this film are based on concepts developed by Christian and Mads Tafdrup. Christian Tafdrup served as an executive producer on this film. The original premise was inspired by a "What If?" scenario envisioned by Tafdrup after meeting a friendly couple in Tuscany while on vacation who had invited him to come stay with them.
  • There are a total of nine credited cast members in this film. This is equal to the number of producers on the movie.
  • The movie was filmed primarily in Gloucester, England with one week's worth of filming taking place in Gronznjan in Croatia. [1][2]
  • With only five days left of filming, production shut down in July, 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA Strike. Filming resumed in November, 2023.
  • Speak No Evil opened on September 11th, 2024 in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.
  • Speak No Evil had a domestic opening of $11,397,595 in the United States with a total domestic pull of $36,931,420. It earned another $39,824,689 internationally, for a total worldwide gross of $79,756,109. [3]
  • Speak No Evil came in at number 2 at the box office, trailing behind Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which was in its second week. It beat out Alien: Romulus, which was in its fifth week at #4, as well as Blumhouse's Afraid, which was in its third week and came in at #22.
  • At its widest release, Speak No Evil was screened in 3,375 movie theaters. It remained in theaters a total of twenty weeks (141 days).
  • Speak No Evil was released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios on November 19th, 2024. [4]
  • Speak No Evil became available for digital download in the United States on December 6th, 2024.
  • Producer Igor Nola is credited as Igor A. Nola in this film. He is a producer for the Croatian Film Association.
  • This movie primarily takes place in the county of Devon in South West England. Other locales that are briefly shown are Italy and London.
  • On IMDB, this film has an unweighted mean Starmeter score of 6.9 out of 10, based on more than 84,000 user ratings. 5.9% of the voting pool gave the film a perfect score of 10, while 1.4% of the voting pool gave the film a 1.
  • On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Speak No Evil holds a certified "fresh" Tomatometer score of 83% based on 205 posted critic reviews. It has 170 positive reviews and 35 negative reviews. The film has a Popcornmeter score of 79% based on more than 5,000 user ratings, averaging 3.9 out of 5. Scores are based on total critic reviews and total audience votes.
  • On Letterboxd, Speak No Evil has a weighted average review score of 3.27 out of 5 based on 316,667 user votes.
  • Director James Watkins is also known for directing the teen horror Eden Lake in 2008, and the supernatural thriller The Woman in Black in 2012. Coincidentally, Eden Lake served as an inspiration to Christian Tafdrup while conceptualizing the original Speak No Evil.

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References[]

  1. ↑ IMDB; Speak No Evil (2024); Filming Locations.
  2. ↑ IMDB; Speak No Evil (2024); Trivia.
  3. ↑ Box Office Mojo; Speak No Evil (2024); Title Summary, Grosses. Domestic release.
  4. ↑ Blu-ray.com; Speak No Evil Blu-ray. Universal Studios. Nov 19, 2024.
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