'The Guests') is a 2022 psychological horror thriller film[4][5] directed by Christian Tafdrup from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mads [de].

The film centers on Bjørn (Morten Burian) and Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch), a Danish couple who are invited by Patrick (Fedja van Huêt) and Karin (Karina Smulders), a Dutch couple, to their country house for a weekend holiday; the hosts soon begin to test the limits of their guests as a tense situation escalates.

During the first two days, Louise feels uncomfortable about the hosts' passive-aggressive behaviour, such as the disdainful way they treat Abel, who they explain was born with no tongue.

Her concerns are exacerbated when they are invited out for dinner, unaware that the children were to be left at home accompanied by an unknown babysitter called Muhajid.

At dinner, Patrick challenges Louise's vegetarianism after ordering multiple meals containing meat, then drunkenly makes out with his wife in front of them.

The pictures suggest the Dutch couple are serial killers with a pattern of deceiving families in order to murder them and abduct their children.

Patrick beats Bjørn; Abel's babysitter Muhajid holds down Louise while Karin cuts off Agnes's tongue with scissors.

The film rights were subsequently sold to Australia and New Zealand, the Benelux countries, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Hungary.

The website's consensus reads: "A social satire with razor-sharp teeth, Speak No Evil offers a darkly delicious treat for fans of misanthropic thrillers.

"[16] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[5] Praising Tafdrup’s direction, The New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis called it "an icy satire of middle-class mores [that glides] inexorably from squirmy to sinister to full-on shocking [and] is utterly fearless in its mission to unsettle".