Rent Speak No Evil (2022)
3.5 of 5 from 96 ratings
1h 33min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- During a summer vacation in Tuscany, Italy, a reserved Danish family - Bjorn (Morten Burian) and Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch) and their young daughter Agnes (Liva Forsberg) - befriend an outgoing Dutch couple, Patrick (Fedja van Huêt) and Karin (Karina Smulders), holidaying with their young boy, Abel (Marius Damslev). Four months after returning home, Bjorn receives a surprise postcard from Patrick, inviting the Danes to spend a weekend at their countryside house in the Netherlands. But when Bjorn and Louise arrive, the supposedly idyllic and relaxing weekend soon starts to unravel as they try their very best to stay polite in the face of mounting unease.
- Actors:
- Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders, Liva Forsberg, Marius Damslev, Hichem Yacoubi, Jesper Dupont, Lea Baastrup Rønne, Adrian Blanchard, Sarina Maria Rausa, Ilaria Di Raimo, Alessio Barni, Ilaria Casai, Martina Barreca, Andrea Benucci, Sieger Sloot
- Directors:
- Christian Tafdrup
- Producers:
- Jacob Jarek
- Writers:
- Christian Tafdrup, Mads Tafdrup
- Aka:
- Gæsterne / Benelux
- Studio:
- Acorn Media
- Genres:
- Drama, Horror, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/11/2025
- Run Time:
- 97 minutes
- Languages:
- Danish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dutch DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary with co-writer/director Christian Tafdrup and co-writer Mads Tafdrup, recorded exclusively for Arrow Video in 2025
- Six never-before-seen deleted scenes with optional commentary by co-writer/director Christian Tafdrup and co-writer Mads Tafdrup
- Tragedy of Manners, a brand new video essay by filmmaker Jen Handorf investigating the illusions of safety within civility
- Original trailer
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Reviews (3) of Speak No Evil
The Holiday Hangover from Hell - Speak No Evil review by griggs
Speak No Evil is the prime example of why you shouldn't keep in touch with people you meet on holiday. No Christmas cards, no emails, no messages, nothing. The lesson here is clear: the next time you come across a charming family, enjoy your trip and leave it at that!
2 out of 5 members found this review helpful.
OMG - Speak No Evil review by DL
I hired this film to compare it to the English Language version (which I enjoyed) and which had a traditional happy ending.
This was not the case with this, the original version. Bleak does not cover it.
The ending will haunt you for quite some time.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Predictable yet Memorable "parent's worst nightmare" Danish-Dutch Mash-up Creepy Horror - Speak No Evil review by PV
This film reminds me of MISOMMAR (2019) or GRETA (2018) or several TV dramas with a seemingly innocent family/couple who are, in fact, not what they seem...
I saw the plot and ending coming a mile off, perhaps because I have watched all those films and TV dramas... I doubt most viewers will, so they can experience a horrific pleasure denied to me then!
No spoilers - just suspend your disbelief as such stories are always so full of holes, especially in an age of CCTV, cameras on roads and credit-debit card use not to mention smartphone tracking. It asks more questions than it answers, leaving enough loose ends to strangle strangers galore with yet more gore...
The writer/director of this (who also directed the English language version 2 years later which I have not watched) clearly sat down and wrote A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE at the top of a fag packet as his starting point. Many horror films start that way maybe...
Well-made and the characters are mostly believable. The whole thing is well-filmed, beautifully shot in parts, and creeps up on your like a disease as you watch it.
I say MOSTLY because the Dutch couple to whose isolated home the seemingly perfect Danish couple foolishly choose to visit are believable, and the actor playing the Dutchman nails it, perhaps in a textbooks psychological study way.
The visiting Danish couple, like SO many in horror films, come over as rather dim and thick, overly polite, feeble and wet. But their right-on Scandi parenting and opinions are bang on. I just did not believe their behaviours and decisions in some parts though - no spoilers.
This is a film whose horrors and characters will stay with you long after it has ended.
4 stars
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.