10 Horror Movies Ruined By Disturbing Endings
7. Speak No Evil (2022)
Framed around a naïve husband and wife (and their young daughter) who fight for their lives after unknowingly spending a weekend with a murderous couple, the 2024 Hollywood remake of Speak No Evil allows said family to defeat their foes and escape their predicament relatively unscathed.
The 2022 Danish original, on the other hand, is a thoroughly more upsetting journey whose final scenes were simply too irritating, shocking, and depressing.
The initial two acts of both versions are enjoyable and play out similarly, with most of the scenes from the older one appearing in the newer one. (That said, the treacherous couple are already more unsettling – and the victimized family more frustratingly trusting – in the original.)
The third act of the Danish cut is basically the inverse of the Hollywood one, though, since the protagonists don’t conquer evil and flee.
Instead, the husband and wife are forced to watch the killers cut out their daughter’s tongue so that they can pass her off as their mute daughter and trick another unsuspecting family into trusting them sometime in the future. Oh, and they strip the husband and wife naked and then stone them to death.
Talk about an unbearably bleak finale.