Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Speak No Evil (2024)

Although 2024’s Speak No Evil remake changes the thriller’s ending, offering a more crowd-pleasing alternative. However, in the process, director James Watkins’ re-imagining introduces a new plot hole to the movie’s straightforward story. 2024’s Speak No Evil follows Louise and Ben, a married couple.

Holidaying with their daughter Agnes, Louise and Ben encounter the charismatic Paddy, his partner Ciara, and their son Ant. Paddy soon charms Ban and convinces him to visit their isolated country home after their shared holiday ends, but a series of increasingly strange behaviors makes it clear that something is seriously wrong with Paddy and his family. Speak No Evil 2024’s ending reveals the pair to be calculated killers who target families to kill the parents and steal their children, ensuring the silence of these abducted children by cutting out their tongues. Louise and Ben eventually defeat them.

Speak No Evil Doesn't Deal With 1 Loose End

Speak No Evil’s Babysitter Character Is Simply Forgotten

In both versions of Speak No Evil, the villains leave the children with a babysitter named Muhjid while going out for dinner with the heroes. Muhjid is the only character of color in the cast of both movies and, in 2024’s Speak No Evil, Paddy claims that Muhjid is a Syrian refugee who is unable to work legally as he is caught up in the UK’s asylum system. In the original 2022 movie, Muhjid reappears at the end and is revealed to be an accomplice to the killers but, in 2024’s remake, the character is simply forgotten.

The remake doesn’t bring the babysitter back to reveal he is also in league with the child-mutilating murderers.

This causes a massive plot hole, as it is now unclear what role Muhjid played in Paddy and Ciara’s plans. Speak No Evil reveals what happened to Ant’s real parents in the ending shortly before the pub owner, Mike, returns to reveal he is in on Paddy and Ciara’s evil plot. However, possibly because Muhjid’s backstory is so tragically sympathetic, the remake doesn’t bring the babysitter back to reveal he is also in league with the child-mutilating murderers. It is possible that Muhjid isn’t aware of Paddy and Ciara’s villainy whereas, in the 2022 original, he is an active accomplice.

The Original Speak No Evil Wrapped Up The Babysitter Storyline

The Babysitter’s Plot Makes More Sense In The Original 2022 Movie

2022’s Speak No Evil employs a regrettable stereotype when the movie’s sole character of color is revealed to be a villain who the heroes should have suspected earlier, so 2024’s remake arguably improves on this portrayal. However, in doing so, the remake simply drops Muhjid’s character altogether. It seems almost impossible that a babysitter who has met Paddy and Ciara wouldn’t be familiar with their modus operandi, but the movie’s ending does not refer to Muhjid’s involvement or his whereabouts. By slightly lessening the 2022 original’s problematic implications, 2024’s Speak No Evil remake opens up a major plot hole.