By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The new vacation from hell is coming to theaters this fall.
Based on the acclaimed psychological shocker by Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup, the Blumhouse-produced SPEAK NO EVIL will be released by Universal September 13. Written and directed by James Watkins (EDEN LAKE, THE WOMAN IN BLACK), it stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Aisling Franciosi (THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, STOPMOTION), Alix West Lefler and Daniel Hough. The synopsis: “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.”
Tafdrup’s film was a tough act to follow, but Watkins (who also co-scripted the intense, underappreciated MY LITTLE EYE) seems like the right man to recapture its impact. Earlier this year, Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek told us, “James Watkins was so right to do this… The new one definitely doesn’t lose [the original’s] mean streak; it’s pretty awesome.”
