Speak No Evil director defends remaking a two-year-old movie and changing one of its best scenes: "I wanted to make a film that is tense"

Scoot McNairy as Ben and James McAvoy as Paddy in Speak No Evil.

Although the original Speak No Evil movie only came out less than two years ago, writer-director James Watkins feels like his remake is different enough to stand out as he defends some of the changes he made to the original story. 

"There'll be people that see the original movie and go, 'Why hasn't he remade that movie? Why hasn't he made this incredibly punchy, unrelenting ending?'” Watkins tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Agatha All Along on the cover and hits newsstands on September 4.