New horror movie Whistle features a death scene so “insane”, director Corin Hardy had to go back and reread it during his first peek at the script.
Starring Shaun of the Dead’s Nick Frost, Yellowjackets’ Sophie Nélisse, and Deadpool and Wolverine’s Dafne Keen, the film centers on a group of high school students who unwittingly attract the attention of the Grim Reaper when they blow on an ancient Aztec instrument.
Whistle was inspired by everything from A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Lost Boys to Fright Night but, for Hardy, it’s mostly a mix of The Ring and… The Breakfast Club, with a queer romance between Nélisse’s Ellie and Keen’s Chrys at its center.
“They have to work together to figure out how they can beat the death whistle, and this brings them closer together. I’m a big softy in that sense. It was important that there was this undercurrent of hope running through and a need to survive,” he noted. “[I wanted to] make a horror film with heart… I wanted it to feel colorful and moody and epic – a world you can really get lost in. I wanted it to be a ride.”
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