Speak No Evil | Behind the Scenes Breakdown with Director James Watkins - James McAvoy

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Everything can take a turn. Join Director James Watkins as he takes us through the progression of horror in #SpeakNoEvilMovie. Only in theaters Friday.

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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.

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 estate owner whose untrammeled hospitality masks an unspeakable darkness.

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 Daniel 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 on the screenplay of the 2022 Danish horror sensation Gæsterne, written by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup. That film earned 11 Danish Film Awards nominations, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.

Speak No Evil is produced by Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s, M3GAN) for Blumhouse and by Paul Ritchie (McMafia, The Ipcress File) and is executive produced by Beatriz Sequeira for Blumhouse, Jacob Jarek and Christian Tafdrup.
Transcript
00:00Speak no evil has these sort of gear shifts and this scene is definitely an example Agnes. We don't chew with our mouths open
00:08They're sort of having an alfresco lunch and everything is good at first Agnes, please
00:13Can you stop telling my daughter what to do?
00:15But she needs to be told if you're not her mother
00:17I'm your mother the film explores the horrors of social interaction and the world is so complicated now
00:23What are the rules that it's for her parents to tell her is that the rule?
00:27Yeah, and I think that really taps into people's anxieties you don't criticize other people's children you should say, sorry, it's
00:33I'm sorry, Louise on to Agnes and then the energy takes a sort of dark turn right top up Agnes
00:40Why don't you and aunt show us your your dance routine y'all been working on?
00:44Paddy's had quite a bit to drink
00:47This is the point where the characters are getting to the line of what's acceptable and then crossing that line and
00:52What is wrong with you, how hard can it be just feel the rhythm in your feet right one two three Louise is constantly trying
01:00To suppress her instincts. She knows something's not right here. She's trying to be polite until that can no longer hold
01:10Now you're parenting our child I want to pack up the car I want to leave right now, but it's a bit too late
01:17They're gonna kill us
01:19Something got social horror it becomes a literal horror
01:25Speak no evil

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