Almost two years have passed by since we heard that Dafne Eager of Logan and His Darkish Supplies and Sophie Nélisse of Yellowjackets and The Ebook Thief had signed on to star in Whistle, the newest horror movie from The Hallow and The Nun director Corin Hardy. Filming occurred in Ontario, Canada on the finish of 2023 – and now, the film is about able to make its method out into the world. The premiere screening is scheduled to be held at Unbelievable Fest in Austin, Texas later right now, September twenty fifth, however these of us who aren’t attending Unbelievable Fest received’t have to attend for much longer to see it. It was just lately introduced that Shudder and Impartial Movie Firm had picked up the distribution rights, and now the discharge date has been confirmed: Whistle will probably be receiving a theatrical launch on February 6, 2026. Coinciding with the Unbelievable Fest premiere and the discharge date announcement, a teaser poster for the movie has been unveiled, and you may test that out on the backside of this text.
Scripted by Owen Egerton from his personal quick story, Whistle has the next synopsis: A misfit group of unwitting highschool college students come upon a cursed object, an historic Aztec Dying Whistle. They uncover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. Because the physique rely rises, the chums examine the origins of the lethal artifact in a determined effort to cease the horrifying chain of occasions that they’ve set in movement.
Eager and Nélisse are joined within the solid by Sky Yang (Insurgent Moon), Percy Hynes White (Wednesday), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Useless). Producers on the movie embrace David Gross and Jesse Shapira for No Hint Tenting, and Macdara Kelleher for Wild Atlantic Footage.
Hardy has beforehand mentioned, “Whistle is made with the same heart-on-sleeve, disenfranchised-teen-spirit found in my favorite genre movies that I grew up watching. I was drawn to the mysterious mythology surrounding the ‘Death Whistle’ and how it presented me with the opportunity to create a variety of cinematic, imaginative and terrifying deaths. This film is built for the big screen experience, so I can’t wait for audiences to blow the Whistle with Independent Film Company and Shudder in cinemas!” Adam Koehler, the Director of Acquisitions and Productions who secured the take care of IFC and Shudder on behalf of the filmmakers, added,”Corin Hardy is a grasp of his craft and we’re overjoyed to be bringing this horrifying imaginative and prescient to audiences throughout the nation. With Whistle, he’s created a vicious and bloody deal with that may stand tall among the many greatest and scariest horror movies in latest field workplace historical past.“
Whistle has been rated R for robust violent content material, gore, drug content material and a few language.
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