Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Speak No Evil (2022) and Speak No Evil (2024)
By changing the movie’s story,Speak No Evil’s 2024 remake fixes a major plot hole that the 2022 original completely ignored. 2022’sSpeak No Evilwas a Danish horror movie that earned critical acclaim thanks to its brutally bleak tone and pitch-black comedic elements. However, the original movie was not perfect.Speak No Evil’s story was criticizedby some reviewers and its ending was not without some major plot holes.Speak No Evil’s original twist endingwas so shocking that many viewers were too devastated to notice its flaws, but it required some substantial logical leaps.
Does Speak No Evil Have A Post-Credits Scene?
2024’s Speak No Evil remakes the 2022 Danish movie with Blumhouse and James McAvoy, and here’s whether there is a post-credits scene teasing more.
SinceSpeak No Evil’s 2024 remake changes the endingof the psychological horror movie, it solves some of its more blatant plot holes. The 2024 remake follows Ben, Louise, and their daughter Agnes as they endure an excruciatingly awkward weekend trip to another family’s isolated country home. At first, James McAvoy’s Paddy and Aisling Franciosi’s Ciara seem like they are simply eccentric, but the couple eventually reveal themselves to be cold-blooded killers. InSpeak No Evil2024’s ending, Ben and Louise defeat Paddy and Ciara, saving the child the couple abducted as the credits roll.
The Original Speak No Evil Didn’t Answer One Huge Question
Speak No Evil 2022 Never Explained How The Killers Afford Anything
In 2022’sSpeak No Evil, the outspoken couple are also revealed to be murderers who steal the children of their victims, but they successfully win in the end by stoning the central couple to death. While this ending is chilling and nihilistic,2022’sSpeak No Evilnever explains how the villainous couple could afford their lavish lifestyle and hide their violent crimes. The killers could simply be born into wealth, but the movie never clarifies this or even hints at it. As such, viewers are left with the distinct feeling that the logic of the plot is flawed.
In both versions of the movie’s story, the villainous couple meet their targets while on international holidays. They win their trust, invite them to visit, and then psychologically torture them before finally killing them and abducting their child. Both movies reveal the villains have done this before with numerous different families, but this doesn’t make much sense unless they are so wealthy that they don’t need to hold down regular jobs. Paddy even notes this when he claims he is unemployed, not a doctor, before laughingly says he is only joking and pointing out how expensive his country estate is.
2024’s Speak No Evil Adds A Scene To Explain The Killers' Wealth
Speak No Evil’s Remake Ending Justifies This Twist
AfterSpeak No Evil2024 reveals what happenedto Ant’s parents, the remake goes on to justify the unlikely opulence of the couple’s lifestyle. At gunpoint, Paddy forces Louise to transfer all the family’s savings to his bank account, handing over almost £200,000 (approximately $263,900.00). Assuming Ciara and Paddy have done this before, which is implied by their scrapbook of earlier victims, viewers can safely assume thatSpeak No Evil2024’s villainous couple live off the money they steal from their victims before killing them.
Speak No Evil 2024’s farmhouse setting would cost a pretty penny in reality.
This makes more sense than the villains of 2022’s original movie, who have less discernible income sources and less motivation. Although their West Country home is referred to as “Small” in the movie,Speak No Evil2024’s farmhouse setting would cost a pretty penny in reality. A cursory search of available properties in the movie’s main filming location, Gloucestershire, proves that a small family farm’s guide price starts at over £1,000,000. Not all ofSpeak No Evil2024’s many story changeswork, but this one goes a long way to clearing up a plot hole.
Speak No Evil Ignores Its Own New Plot Hole
Speak No Evil 2024 Does Elide The Realities Of UK Banking
However,Speak No Evil2024 does open up a new plot holein the remake’s attempt to explain this original movie mystery. While this may not be the case everywhere in the world, British online banking is fairly fastidious about transferring big sums to unknown new payees. Ben and Louise’s bank account would almost certainly be locked due to suspected fraud and, even if they verified the transaction, a sum that large would create a digital footprint that could easily lead back to Ciara and Paddy.
Speak No Evil 2022has a Rotten Tomatoes audience rating of only 56%, whileSpeak No Evil 2024boasts an 85% rating.
A family transferring the entirety of their life savings to a new payee shortly before vanishing off the face of the earth would be sure to raise some eyebrows. As such, it is unlikely that Paddy and Ciara would be able to stay in the same place for long. WhileSpeak No Evil2024’s great reviewsprove the movie was a hit with critics, the logic of its story still doesn’t quite add up. Admittedly, Paddy and Ciara’s plan makes a lot more sense than the original movie’s villains. However,Speak No Evil’s remake still struggles with its big twist.
