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Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil

Horror · Thriller · 2024

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.

Movie details

Speak No Evil

“Hear no evil.”

2024 Horror · Thriller 1h 50m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.8 / 10

127.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

83 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

66 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Speak No Evil?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

James Watkins

Written by

James Watkins

James McAvoy

James McAvoy

Paddy

Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis

Louise Dalton

Scoot McNairy

Scoot McNairy

Ben Dalton

Aisling Franciosi

Aisling Franciosi

Ciara

Alix West Lefler

Alix West Lefler

Agnes Dalton

Dan Hough

Dan Hough

Ant

Kris Hitchen

Kris Hitchen

Mike

Court is in session

Put Speak No Evil on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Big-Idea Head

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.