Corin Hardy’s Whistle (2025) is the director’s follow-up to 2018’s The Nun, this film sees the English director tackle the supernatural in a different direction — this time we’re dealing with a whistle which conjures the inevitable death of anyone who hears its tone.

Starring Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang, Jhaleil Swaby, and Ali Skovbye as a motley group of teenagers, this Final Destination meets slasher romp has a group of kids get involved with an ancient latin-american whistle of death.

Keen plays Chrys, the central character, who has moved to be with her cousin, Yang’s Rel Taylor, who is a student but also works at the local steel-mill on weekends. Together, along with their detention crew, they have to find a way to survive the whistle’s death-call.

Owen Egerton’s screenplay is very simple and will feel very familiar to horror fans — we’re not seeing anything new here, but then again, we don’t need to. The movie is trying its best to be comfort food.

The scares are mild and not very effective, with only a few truly tense sequences scattered through the film, but newcomers to the genre might be more spooked. The gore is quite good at times, and at other times poor-quality CGI (this holds true for most horror movies), saying this, there were a couple of really great death-scenes, and the death-scenes themselves were quite creative.

Whistle features a few memorable set-pieces and associates sequences which heighten the vibe of the movies, using relatively simple ideas and tricks to create tension.

Whistle features an adequate score, and a great 80s/90s gothic-tinged soundtrack which suits the vibe perfectly,

Whistle isn’t perfect, and it’s unimaginative, but it is entertaining enough to sit through the run-time without distraction or being pulled-out of the movie, the world is convincing enough and the performances good enough that I can see it having a second-life after its theatrical run as a regular blu-ray watch for horror aficionados. Whistle is definitely one to catch on streaming or on blu-ray.

3.5/5

Callum Berry