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Horror comes in many forms. And while the dead/death has prayed on unsuspecting teens for quite some time, it has always stalked from some very specific sources. Now, death has a very special all, in the form of an Aztec death whistle. Such devices are part of a world lore that exists in one form or another. But, now it is time for their moment in the sun in the new film, Whistle.

Directed by Corin Hardy (The Nun), from a story by Owen Egerton, Whistle stars Dafne Keen as an orphaned teen sent to live with her cousin after her father’s untimely death. On her first day, she finds the titular whistle in her locker, which belonged to the last person to befall the instrument’s wicked torture. Along with her cousin and a group of new “friends,” she searches for a way to break the curse of the whistle, before it is too late.

We spoke with the Hardy about creating a new mythos for the horror world and how he was tasked with finding ways to bring new forms of death to the silver screen.

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.

Director : Corin Hardy

Producer : Whitney Brown, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher

Screenwriter : Owen Egerton

Distributor : Independent Film Company

Production Co : No Trace Camping, Wild Atlantic Pictures

Rating : R

Genre : Horror, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language : English

Release Date (Theaters) : Feb 6, 2026, Limited

Runtime : 1h 37m

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Here’s the trailer of the film.