what is going on to all my horror fans out there today we are discussing speak no evil a new danish
horror film that played at the sundance film festival earlier this year and will be playing
in select theaters on september 9th and will be streaming exclusively on shutter on september
15th now i'm sure the question is elliott is this new danish horror film about a family vacation
gone wrong worth my time i'm gonna answer that question and so much more in today's spoiler
free review but before we get into the breakdown if you haven't already consider subscribing to
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but more importantly speaking of evil we must speak of this film i want to know your
pros your cons on a scale of 1 to 10 how uncomfortable were you watching this film
did you enjoy the narrative were you disappointed by the reveal were you disappointed by the film
let's discuss it in the comments below so listen this is my favorite time of the year the weather's
changing but more importantly as a horror fan it is spooky season now is this one of the good ones
we're going to answer that question by the end of this review but the first thing i want to say
is easily this was one of the most uncomfortable films i've seen all year now i think that is due
to the part of the really solid co-writing in the direction of kristin taftrop i thought that
he was more focused and interested on introducing these characters and the emotional depth of these
characters versus relying on traditional horror tropes he dives deeper in exploring
their their mindset how uncomfortable they are in this situation versus like the physical harm that
this film has to offer especially in the third act now getting into some comparison i'm a big ari
asher fan and the reason i love ari astro films i know he's not enough for everyone but he's for me
ariasha to me focuses on the depth the emotional weight and i felt that christian did the same
thing i thought he did such a great job of setting the tone it's dark it's anonymous the bombastic
musical cues were just really well put together now one of the joys i had in going to into this
movie is speak no evil is not knowing an idea of where we were ultimately going in this film but
just going on this this journey this rabbit hole of just discovering these people are very evil now
without giving too much away because i didn't know too much about the film i kind of stumbled upon
getting some emails seeing a little bit of a teaser hearing some good buzz from the
from the festivals and just to give you all just a basic premise of the narrative here
you have a danish family who visits a dutch family that they met on a holiday what was supposed to be
a very laid back and chill and fun weekend slowly starts to unravel as this family who is trying
to be polite must face unpleasantness and that's where we kind of transition into the performances
the main family that we're following here bjorn his wife luis their daughter agnes i found them
to be so relatable and so believable and again i mentioned how this film does such a great job of
making you feel uncomfortable because as as just me as a human being i do not like confrontation i
like to make people feel comfortable i don't like to be in uncomfortable situations in this film
was almost seeing myself now i do have boundaries there are limits i will not allow people to cross
that our characters allow their people that were hosting them on this weekend they cross
many different boundaries but again the relatability factor of just putting yourself in
a situation where you're like okay i'm at their house this is their rules this is how they live
life and you don't want to be judgmental but again it's when you don't want to be judgmental that you
allow people to cross a boundary and that's where the more satirical elements of this film i i don't
want to call it a comedy but it definitely kind of has some levity because again as i'm
watching this film i'm saying to myself oh hell no would i allow someone to say that to do this
to interact with my child in that way there are so many moments this film where i'm just finding
myself to be so engaged because i'm just like this is just again relatable but also you're like
wanna shake the characters in the screen and be like listen can you not see the cues that these
people are doing some very sinister things so again the performances were very believable from
our main cast the entire cast was great but again the husband bjorn and his wife louise
i thought were the highlights as far as just like being so believable in the uncomfortableness that
they found themselves in so performances were really solid across the board but i want to
touch on a little bit about the story and the narrative and the perspective i found this film
to display discomfort and awkwardness in pushing people's boundaries to be really the forefront of
this film again not giving too much away but just putting yourself in this position you've been that
person when you went to a friend's house that you might have met for the first time and you're just
like wow you're not the same as i remember and why are you doing certain things and again there are
children involved and when you see the parental decisions by certain characters you're just like
this is where again you're very uncomfortable you're very just like what is going on here and
that is the beauty of this narrative again i think the theme that they did such a great job is not
allowing your niceness your kindness to overshadow people crossing your boundaries and that's where
the more second and the third act become more of the horror film because you're seeing these
behavioral decisions by the characters it's just like that's a red flag you need to get
the hell out of there and when things shake out of why they don't leave it's very interesting so
getting into some of my criticism i will say the first half and the second half to me were
the strongest points the build up the setup it's a slow burn i know it's not gonna work for everyone
but it really kind of kept me invested as far as again the development the depths the characters
decisions the emotional resonance that to me was where the film's at its best but unfortunately
when we transition into the third act and we get into the more horrific elements of the big reveal
to me unfortunately it didn't work for me because it felt rushed and also make made me think of when
you get the reveal i started to poke holes in the logic like wait a minute after a while because
this film is a period piece this is in modern times or cell phones there's computers the logic
to me of when you get the reveal of the sinister nature of what these characters are doing i'm just
like i don't know how now i know that stuff like this happens in the real world don't get me wrong
but when you see the scale of it all you're just like i don't know how often how much longer they
would have been able to do certain things and i'll just kind of leave at that but the biggest
thing to me is the third actors feels extremely rushed like they ran they sprinted to the finish
line and i thought the conclusion just wasn't as as satisfying to me and also the characters start
to make convenient choices for the sake of the plot versus logical choices that they would have
made as human beings so that's kind of my biggest criticism is i thought the third act wasn't as
satisfied as the first and the second half and the setup was there but the payoff just didn't
pay off for me so overall should you watch speak no evil when it comes to select theaters and when
it comes exclusively streaming on shutter i say yes i'm gonna give this film a three and a half
out of five again just to warn you all it's a slow burn it is a satirical kind of comedy it is very
uncomfortable very unpleasant things happens but again to me the ending just wasn't as satisfying
but it's still something i think you all should give it a watch and when you do i want to know
your thoughts in the comments what worked what didn't work how uncomfortable were you again on
a scale of 1-10 i was out of 10 for moses film and how did you all feel about the reveal let's
talk about that in the comment section if you stuck around to this point in the video i can't
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