Whistle (2025)
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A group of students discovers an ancient Aztec whistle that summons their own deaths to hunt them down.
The story
After a student dies in a mysterious fire, a transfer student named Chrys Willet finds a skull-shaped Aztec death whistle in a locker. When she and her peers are forced into detention, they encounter a teacher who possesses the artifact. After the whistle is blown, the students realize that the sound summons a physical manifestation of their own destined deaths. The group must navigate the terrifying reality of the curse as they learn that anyone who hears the whistle becomes stalked by their own demise, forcing them to find a way to stop the supernatural threat before it claims them.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
After a student named Mason 'Horse' Raymore dies in a mysterious fire, transfer student Chrys Willet finds a skull-shaped Aztec death whistle in his locker. During a detention session, the students—Chrys, her cousin Rel, Dean, his girlfriend Grace, and a girl named Ellie—are present when the teacher, Mr. Craven, blows the whistle. This causes the students to be haunted by their own death apparitions. While the teacher is killed by a grotesque version of himself, the students learn from Mason's grandmother, Ivy, that the whistle's curse can only be avoided by transferring it to another person or by briefly dying and being revived. As the group is hunted, Grace is aged into an old woman and Dean is killed in a manner resembling a car crash. Rel attempts to sacrifice a local youth pastor, Noah, but the group refuses. Eventually, Noah is killed after accidentally taking the curse onto himself. While Chrys and Ellie believe they have escaped the curse, the film ends with a new student, Asha, finding the whistle in her locker and blowing it during a school assembly, dooming everyone present.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 100
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Corin Hardy
- Writers
- Owen Egerton · writer
- Cast and characters
- Dafne Keen · Chrys Willet; Sophie Nélisse · Ellie Gains, Chrys's love interest; Sky Yang · Rel Taylor, Chrys's cousin; Jhaleil Swaby · Dean Jackson, Mason's teammate; Ali Skovbye · Grace Browning, Dean's girlfriend; Percy Hynes White · Noah Haggerty, a youth pastor; Michelle Fairley · Ivy Raymore, Mason's grandmother; Nick Frost · Mr. Craven
- Genres
- supernatural horror
- Themes
- mortality; consequences of actions
- Tone and mood
- supernatural; horror
- Premise and plot tags
- teen; horror; supernatural; curse
- Source material / true-story basis
- short story
- Reception
- The film received mixed or average reviews from critics.
- Production trivia
- The film features a music video for a Gunship cover of Time After Time using unused footage.; The film was a Canadian and Irish co-production.
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