What is it with terrifying vacations lately? We just had Knock at the Cabin, and now comes Speak No Evil, a remake of the Danish film Gaesterne, which is also about a family vacation turned nightmare. James McAvoy is set to star in the film from James Watkins, director of The Woman in Black and the Black Mirror episode “Shut Up and Dance.”
The Hollywood Reporter says the film “centers on a family that takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare.” Blumhouse is producing the movie, which implies it will be quite creepy. Writing about the original Danish film, The New York Times said “Gliding inexorably from squirmy to sinister to full-on shocking, this icy satire of middle-class mores, confidently directed by Christian Tafdrup, is utterly fearless in its mission to unsettle.”
The story seems to involve something of an ensemble cast, but there’s no word yet on who will join McAvoy (seen recently in the final series of His Dark Materials, pictured above).
Watkins is writing and directing the remake, which will be out next year. In the meantime, if you need more creepy vacation tales to entice you to stay home, there’s Netflix’s upcoming Leave the World Behind (an adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel), or you can always go back to Michael Haneke’s Funny Games—the 1997 original or Haneke’s 2007 English-language remake.
Speak No Evil is set to arrive in theaters August 9, 2024.
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