

Shawn isn’t buying it - “You seem a little delicate these days.”īut Jo, the neighbor (de Matteo of “The Sopranos”) is the first to catch on. Zach starts to wonder what mom (J ill Hennesy) and that long-ago therapist never told him. Nor do their neighbors/landlords ( Drea de Matteo, Alex Carter), or elderly Poppy (the late Alex Rocco) who lives with them.īut cowled figures turn up - in darkened closets, in rear-view mirrors. Neighbors are sexually assaulted and go mad.īut law student Zach ( Dominic Sherwood of TV’s “Shadowhunters”) and his art teacher girlfriend Shawn ( Charlbi Dean Kriek of “Death Race: Inferno”) don’t know that as they move in together. Rick Bieber’s achingly slow story is about the horrors of young Zach’s past assaulting him and all those around him in the present day.ĭemons stalk, haunt and attack. “Don’t Speak” is a drab indie horror tale earning release thanks to a director whose next credit (as a producer) is the “Flatliners” remake. The kid is speaking with a demonic growl. Repeated bad dreams? I have the answer!ĬUT TO: Back home, where the boy, and then his mother, realize just how off the mark Dr.

Zach, an expressionless child actor whom we’ll spare calling out on his limited future in films, has to listen to a smug psychotherapist ( Cary Elwes) diagnose what ails him. The little boy imagines himself in what looks like a graveyard, macabre figures greet him, direct him and then threaten him.ĬUT TO: Interior, a shrink’s office. The title “Thirteen years ago” appears on the screen. INTERIOR: A dark hallway, the camera tracks into a bedroom where a little boy is having a nightmare.
