The Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of the evolution of horror. This week sees the release of a brand new horror film the remake of Speak No Evil.

Now this was I'm sure many of you know because I've been waxing lyrical about this film for two years now. This was my absolute

favorite horror film of 2022. This was the movie directed by Christian Taff drop and it is one of the most

excruciatingly uncomfortable bleak and terrifying horror movies I've ever seen.

It's one of those films that kind of affected me so much that I had to kind of step outside into the fresh air and go for a little walk and just

get out of the house after watching it. The first time a film has really made me feel that way since

I think Martyrs in 2008. It was such a bold interesting and uncomfortable film and so when I heard the news

that immediately a year later Blumhouse we're going to remake this film starring James McAvoy.

I was cynical. I was not in any way positive about the idea of a Speak No Evil remake because I knew that a remake would probably smooth the edges.

It would probably take away some of the most shocking and disturbing moments about the original

and I was really not that up for it. Well, I'm always happy to admit when I am wrong or when I am pleasantly

surprised and as it happens, Speak No Evil the remake is really, really fun. Now it is still not a patch on the original but that's okay

because it's actually doing its own thing. It's not trying to be a carbon copy of

the original film not in the same way that The Strangers Chapter 1 was,

for example, earlier this year, which felt like a complete pointless rehash of what we'd already

seen. This version, directed by James Watkins,

starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNary and a few other great people,

is not a carbon copy. It takes that story, does something different with it. It explores different kinds

of themes and it works, in my opinion, as a really nice kind of companion to the original film.

You know, they can both exist without each other and they also can coexist together as well and I really like that. That is exactly the sort of thing that I look for in a remake. It also has one of the best and most unhinged James

MacAvoy performances as well. So I was a big big fan and I got the chance to

sit down and chat to the director James Watkins. So James Watkins, a bit of a seasoned British

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