Speak No Evil was intriguing to me from the first trailer. Mostly because I love James McAvoy and he is really great at being creepy and disturbing. I will say that I had doubts about this being a full feature film. You can only be creepy for so long before it’s repetitive and boring. But in James McAvoy we trust. The film was well structured, interesting and kept its creep factor throughout. McAvoy was in fact the best part of the movie but only because his acting aided a pretty decent story. As horror movies go it definitely joins the list, its one of the better ones produced in the last few years, though to be completely fair the bar for that is not entirely high.
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I think that as far as scary movies go it was pretty solid. The creep factor was set up quite well, and it was maintained throughout the film. There was an actual emotional drive behind our main characters, something that often gets tossed to the side with horror films. Obviously, the casting was incredible. James McAvoy really is the saving grace of every movie he’s in. All that said, there are a lot of factors I consider when giving my numbered ratings, so because of the re-watchability factor and overall narrative quality, it is getting a 7/10. It was good but it is not considered required viewing.
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