Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil is an extremely dark film with a poignant message about not putting up with awful people for the sake of politeness.
While it is not as graphic as some of the other films on this list, it is certainly disturbing and unflinching in its delivery.

The premise is that a family go to spend a few weeks with some strangers they barely know who are insistent upon pushing their boundaries back bit by bit. Give some psychopaths an inch and they'll drag you for a mile.

Morten Burian and Sidsel Siem Koch have are very believable as the bog standard, overly polite couple; while the film has received some criticism for not being realistic, I completely disagree; people as weak willed and meek as the two leads do exist in real life and are frequently abused and take advantage of by psychopathic people, go read about the Abducted in plain sight story, things more insane than this have happened, because some people simply don't know how to say no.

Fedja Van Huet and Karina Smulders are also excellent as the sadistic couple, Fedja Van Huet in particular is terrifying, he portrays a psychopath perfectly, he is nonchalant when abusing others, other peoples emotions are a game to him, he has no empathy or conscience but has learned to portray the image of a person that does. That my friends, is a psychopath.

The ending is shockingly bleak but having seen the remake which i will not be reviewing, Its the only ending that works.

The remake for what its worth is an americanised neutered version of the original that is afraid to commit to the point of the film and in the last twenty minutes decides that it would rather be a remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs than Speak No Evil, this is not a film where cathartic violence works, but of course try explaining that to an American audience.