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Director
Christian Tafdrup
Year
2022
Country
Denmark, Netherlands
Runtime
105 min

Also released as

  • Gæsterne
  • Benelux
  • Goście
  • Heç kəsə danışma

Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil is a 2022 Danish and Dutch psychological horror film directed by Christian Tafdrup.

Danish. About politeness, and the ending is the bleakest thing in this decade of horror.

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Danish, about politeness, and the ending is the bleakest thing this decade of horror has produced.

A Danish family befriend a Dutch family on holiday in Tuscany and are invited to stay with them for a weekend months later. Small things are wrong from the moment they arrive. Every single one could be excused as a cultural difference, and every single time, they excuse it.

Christian Tafdrup builds the film entirely out of moments where a normal person would say something and does not. The dinner where Bjørn is served meat after saying he is vegetarian is the whole film in miniature.

The last fifteen minutes answer the question the film has been asking with a directness almost nothing else attempts, including a line of dialogue that is the coldest thing in the genre.

The American remake changes the ending completely. Watch this one.

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