New SPEAK NO EVIL Trailer Teases A Holiday From Hell

Ahead its September 13 release date, Blumhouse and James Watkins’ Speak No Evil remake gets a brand new trailer via Universal Pictures.

Speak No Evil, a remake of Christian Tafdrup’s terrifying Danish thriller of the same name, stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davies, Scott McNairy and Aisling Franciosi as two sets of couples from different continents, bought together by the holiday from hell:

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.

Watkins (the mind behind the similarly traumatizing Eden Lake) will be adapting Christian and Mads Tafdrup’s original Speak No Evil screenplay.

Alongside Blum, Paul Ritchie, Christian Tafdrup, Jacob Jarek, and Bea Sequeira will serve as EPs.

Now, given that Speak No Evil only came out in 2022, many horror fans have understandably expressed concern that it’s much too soon for a remake, not to mention the butchering that ‘foreign’ movies so often meet at the hands of American studios.

But hold on just a minute before you pre-emptively judge, because in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, McAvoy promises that:

It’s Blumhouse at its best, really […] It’s entertaining and scary, but it’s also got something at its foundation. It’s grounded in something real.

McAvoy also teased a little more insight into his character, Paddy, and the spin he puts on the themes of social awkwardness throughout the movie:

Paddy is living and presenting a version of the good life off-grid on his own time, self-sustaining back to nature, earthy, educated, erudite, sexy. He just wants to f—ing love and feel and touch and bite and talk and debate […] It’s a modern version of classic masculinity that isn’t metrosexual, that isn’t beta, that isn’t compromising in any way. And yet he kind of makes it almost palatable.”

Of course, whether or not Watkins’ remake will hold faithful to the original (including THAT ending), remains to be seen, but from this new trailer we’d say it’s sticking pretty closely to the source material.