‘Whistle’ Summons Retro Styled Poster and February 2026 Release Date
Director Corin Hardy’s (The Nun) next horror movie, Whistle is coming in 2026 from Independent Film Company and Shudder, and after the official teaser confirmed that the film takes place during Halloween season, today brings a new retro-styled poster and the actual release date reveal.
Independent Film Company and Shudder have acquired U.S. rights to Whistle, the new horror film from The Nun director Corin Hardy, starring Dafne Keen (Logan, The Acolyte), Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (My Old Ass), and Nick Frost (Sean of the Dead, Get Away).
Owen Egerton, who wrote and directed the criminally underseen and absolutely excellent 2018 Halloween horror movie Blood Fest, adapted the screenplay for Whistle from his own short story.
In the film, a misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. Soon, 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.
When the film wrapped shooting last year, Hardy posted some set photos on Instagram, including one featuring a massive jack o’ lantern in the background (see it below), suggesting a Halloween setting, and more recently the teaser gives us a quick shot of Nélisse’s character dressed in a devil costume with lots of lit jack o’ lanterns burning behind her, confirming that at least some of the film takes place around Halloween.
Whistle will be released wide in theaters on February 6, 2026. (So that means Halloween horror in the dead of winter!)
Check out the official poster, as well as the trailer and that Halloween flavored still, below.
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