Have you ever been to a friend’s house and almost immediately wanted to leave?
Maybe their couch was wrapped in plastic, maybe they built an idol for it Taylor Swift in the boiler room, maybe it just smelled weird?
Whatever the reason, you knew you wanted to steal pranks as soon as you walked through the front door.
If you answered yes, then boy oh boy yes Netflix have the perfect movie for you.
It is called Do not speak eviland is an English-language remake of a Danish-Dutch film of the same name.
The premise is simple. While on holiday in Italy, Ben and Louise, along with their daughter Agnes, befriend a couple called Paddy and Ciara and their son Ant.
In fact, the sexts have such a great time with their hollybobs that when Paddy and Ciara invite Ben and Louis over to their family home, they jump at the chance.
Now we don’t want to spoil anything for you, but let’s just say that accepting the visit was a huge mistake.
However, Speak No Evil has an impressive 83% Rotten tomatoes and is currently number three on Netflix’s top ten movies.
All very commendable achievements; however, some believe it should never have been done.
No, these are not puritanical scaredy cats terrified of anything that goes bump in the night; they are the cinema.
Yes, there is a contingent of people on the Internet who believe that the film is too similar to the Danish-Dutch one and that its remake was essentially pointless.
“Speak No Evil is a remake of a film made just two years ago and threatens to overshadow a truly compelling work,” wrote David Renshaw of. Fader.
Cold Bleeding were similarly unhappy with the remake, calling it a ‘toothless’ throwback that didn’t understand what made the first so awesome.
even of the subway own fearless entertainment editor, Alicia Adejobi, was upset with the decision to remake the movie.
“It is disappointing that Hollywood cannot allow this relatively unsung Danish gem the space to shine and gain support for her screenwriting, cinematography and acting,” she wrote.
And yet, the film (as evidenced by its 83% score on Rotten Tomatoes) has its defenders.
Katherine McLaughlin wrote in SciFiNow that the film’s “impressive performances and specificity in its approach to culture and class” set this remake apart from the original.
Even cinematographer Mark Kermode agreed, saying: ‘As a fan of the original, I really think it did it justice and added a new twist and made its own film.’
Speak No Evil (2024) is available to stream now on Netflix, while the original is available on Shudder.
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