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Whistle is a 2025 supernatural horror film directed by Corin Hardy and written by Owen Egerton. It stars Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang, Jhaleil Swaby, Ali Skovbye, Percy Hynes White, Michelle Fairley, and Nick Frost. The film follows a group of students who find an Aztec death whistle and discover that the sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.
Whistle premiered at Fantastic Fest on 25 September 2025 and was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 13 February.
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During a high school basketball game, star athlete Mason "Horse" Raymore is haunted by visions of a burned man before mysteriously bursting into flames and dying. Months later, transfer student Chrys Willet inherits Mason's old locker and finds a skull-shaped whistle. When provoked by Mason's former teammate Dean, both he and Chrys are sent to detention by Mr. Craven, along with her cousin Rel, Dean's girlfriend Grace, and Ellie, a smart girl with diabetes.
After detention, Craven confiscates the whistle and, planning to sell it, blows it to test its condition, while Rel later sneaks back and steals it. Unbeknownst to Rel, Craven — who is constantly smoking — is soon killed by a grotesque apparition of himself that forcefully crushes his lungs. Later, the detained students also blow the whistle, whose sound causes them to be haunted by their own apparitions.
