Whistle

Film Review: Whistle; supernatural scarer never quite finds its own piercing sound

Corin Hardy’s Whistle wants to resurrect the kind of glossy, high-concept teen horror that flooded multiplexes in the early 2000s – and in some aspects, he succeeds. The problem is that it also inherits the era’s worst instincts. Riffing openly on Final Destination’s death-as-destiny mechanics and Smile’s trauma-tinged apparitions, the film follows a group of…

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