Independent Film Company and Shudder recently acquired U.S. rights to Whistle, the new horror movie from The Nun director Corin Hardy, and it’s officially received an “R” rating. Whistle has been rated “R” for “strong violent content, gore, drug content and some language.” That likely shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering Hardy’s previous work on ultra-violent […]
Independent Film Company and Shudder recently acquired U.S. rights to Whistle, the new horror movie from The Nun director Corin Hardy, and it’s officially received an “R” rating.
Whistle has been rated “R” for “strong violent content, gore, drug content and some language.”
That likely shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering Hardy’s previous work on ultra-violent series “Gangs of London” and breakout feature The Hallow.
The high school horror movie centered around an Aztec Death Whistle, known for its shrieking sound, stars Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”) and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
In Whistle, “a misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.”
The film was written by Owen Egerton (Blood Fest, Mercy Black), adapted from his own short story. It’s produced by David Gross (Room) for No Trace Camping and Macdara Kelleher (The Pope’s Exorcist) for Wild Atlantic Pictures with Black Bear handling international sales.
“Whistle is made with the same heart-on-sleeve, disenfranchised-teen-spirit found in my favorite genre movies that I grew up watching,” said Hardy previously. “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.”
