The movie "Speak No Evil" is one of those slow movie psychological horror movies that take a long time to develop. There are two married couples, each with one child who meet and decide to spend a weekend at a very old house in the country. Over dinner, conversations, and a series of discussions that even include parenting, the couple who lives in this old house are found at first to be annoying, inappropriate, and eventually dangerously insane.
The parts of the evil couple Paddy and Clara are played by James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi, with McAvoy a standout at playing an extremely evil and sick person. The other couple in the wrong place at the wrong time are Louise and Ben, played by Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy - who last appeared together in the great TV series "Halt and Catch Fire" about the dawn of information technology in the 1980s.
As this story goes on, the reality of the evil couple's situation and their son, who we are told was born with a tongue too small to speak become known to the other couple, resulting in an ending that involves an extremely violent series of action scenes and a satisfying conclusion, given the abuse suffered by the young boy in this story named Ant, played by Dan Hough.
The acting in this film is good throughout, although I thought that the wife of Paddy, seemed miscast because she looks too much like a normal woman to play someone so sick and evil. Most people will find many of the scenes of crazy and annoying insanity and child abuse hard to sit through. The other issue is that it seemed to take too long to get to the point of how dangerous and sick these two people who own the house are.
Too many of us will recognize personality traits in Paddy that we have seen in people throughout our working and personal lives. You realize that sometimes there can be no measurable limit as to just how dangerous the wrong people we encounter in life can be.
The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this movie is a very solid 85% and I agree with this rating and do recommend this film.
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