EXCLUSIVE: Independent Film Company and Shudder have acquired U.S. rights to Whistle, the brand new horror movie from The Nun director Corin Hardy, starring Dafne Keen (Logan), Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (My Old Ass) and Nick Frost (How to Train Your Dragon).
The movie might be launched large in theaters at a date not but disclosed. Black Bear is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Owen Egerton tailored the screenplay for Whistle from his personal brief story. The movie watches as a misfit group of unwitting highschool college students come upon a cursed object, an historic Aztec Death Whistle. Soon, they uncover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. As the physique rely rises, the buddies examine the origins of the lethal artifact in a determined effort to cease the horrifying chain of occasions that they’ve set in movement.
“WHISTLE is made with the same heart-on-sleeve, disenfranchised-teen-spirit found in my favorite genre movies that I grew up watching,” mentioned Hardy. “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. This film is built for the big screen experience, so I can’t wait for audiences to blow the WHISTLE with Independent Film Company and Shudder in cinemas!”
Commented Adam Koehler, who serves as Director of Acquisitions and Productions for Independent Film Company, Shudder, and RLJE Films, “Corin Hardy is a master of his craft and we’re overjoyed to be bringing this horrifying vision to audiences across the country. With WHISTLE, he’s created a vicious and bloody treat that will stand tall among the best and scariest horror films in recent box office history.”
Whistle is produced by David Gross and Jesse Shapira for No Trace Camping, and Macdara Kelleher for Wild Atlantic Pictures. Koehler repped the patrons, with CAA repping the filmmakers.