Speak No Evil remake currently has a higher Rotten Tomatoes score than the original
Sep. 11, 2024The James McAvoy-led horror movie is a hit with critics
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It’s often rare for a remake to speak to audiences more than its original, but new horror movie Speak No Evil may have done just that after debuting to an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score.
Our own four-starSpeak No Evil reviewpraises the movie for “walking a thin line between honoring the original, treading its own path to justify its existence, and offering some choicely brutal surprises.”
The Independentpraises leading man James McAvoy for “delivering one of the most impressively repugnant performances of the year,” whileTime Outsays the remake is “seriously unnerving in its own way.”
However, not everyone is a fan.Slant Magazinewrites that “this hollow attempt to turn a provocative showpiece into a crowd-pleaser makes you wonder if the filmmakers are actively disdainful of the original.”
In the original movie, a Danish family meets a Dutch family while on holiday in Tuscany, Italy, who invites them to reunite at their home for a weekend sometime later. In the remake, the two families are American and English. In both movies, a weekend away in the countryside with new friends soon takes a sinister turn, but the two films differ most broadly in the final act. But no spoilers from us here…
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