When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic farmhouse of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
With a riveting performance from James McAvoy and a strong supporting cast, SPEAK NO EVIL will appeal to adult audiences who enjoy psychological suspense thrillers.
From Blumhouse, the producer of The Black Phone, Get Out and The Invisible Man, comes an intense suspense thriller for our modern age, starring BAFTA award-winner JAMES McAVOY (Split, Glass) in a riveting performance as the charismatic, alpha-male host whose untrammeled hospitality masks an unspeakable darkness.
For almost two decades now, Blumhouse has thrilled audiences—and scared the hell out of them—with fresh takes on paranormal activity and every form of evil under the sun (and several full moons, too). But it has also expanded the boundaries of the horror genre with films that have turned the tensions and rituals of everyday life into provocative, topical, wickedly impish entertainment, from Get Out, Jordan Peele’s ingeniously freaky fable about racism in America, to the riotous social satire of The Purge franchise. Now, from writer-director James Watkins comes a twisted take on a British comedy of manners, in which one family’s trip into the countryside to visit some new friends goes horrifically awry, escalating from an awkward social ordeal that challenges their notions of politeness into a shocking nightmare in which they must abandon all civility and fight for their survival.
Speak No Evil stars MACKENZIE DAVIS (Terminator: Dark Fate, Halt and Catch Fire) and SAG award-winner SCOOT MCNAIRY (Argo, A Quiet Place Part II) as American couple Louise and Ben Dalton, who, along with their 11-year-old daughter Agnes (ALIX WEST LEFLER; The Good Nurse, Riverdale), accept the weekend-holiday invitation of Paddy (McAVOY), his wife Ciara (AISLING FRANCIOSI; Game of Thrones, The Fall) and their furtive, mute son Ant (newcomer DAN HOUGH).
Written for the screen and directed by JAMES WATKINS, the writer-director of Eden Lake and the award-winning gothic ghost story The Woman in Black, Speak No Evil is based upon the screenplay of the 2022 Danish thriller sensation Gæsterne, written by CHRISTIAN TAFDRUP and MADS TAFDRUP.
