Corin Hardy steps back into the world of horror, this time going to the most terrifying place: high school. Hardy (The Nun, Gangs of London) will helm Whistle with Owen Egerton writing and adapting his own short story.
Deadline reports that the cast includes Dafne Keen (Logan), Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (Wednesday), and Nick Frost (Fighting With My Family).
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 premise of Whistle is simple, immediate, and has a fresh, haunting mythology,” said Hardy. “A cursed object that summons your future death to come and find you. The screenplay has echoes of some of my favorite classic horrors like The Ring, A Nightmare On Elm Street, or It Follows, with elements of seminal high school movies The Breakfast Club and Donnie Darko.” Adding, “I’m thrilled to be working with this brilliant young cast to bring this inventive, terrifying, and cinematic new horror to death…I mean life.”
Principal photography will begin in the first week of November in Canada.
