Film Review : Whistle (2025)

Whistle might go down as one of the years best horror films that got a wide release, with almost no push for the film ahead of time, that no one saw.

Our story follows a group of high school students who after blowing into and hearing an Aztec death whistle are killed off one by one. We have Chrys, the new girl in a small town, who finds the whistle in her locker and after hanging out with her cousin and his friends get dragged into this situation.

Sure, the plot holes start early. This small town moved on from the previous owner of her locker, who died violently in school, so quickly that they never bothered to empty his locker where the whistle was. Its also somewhat easy to look past because the premise itself here works so well. We get a Final Destination esque film here where everyone within ear shot of the whistle has death chasing them where they die in the fashion and age that was set for them from birth. This leads to some incredibly graphic and rather cool kills here where we get a solid mix of practical effects and CGI.

Our cast of high school characters are paper thin and don’t keep us rooting for them enough to really care though if they die. They set themselves apart enough though to be memorable, even if their inclusion makes no sense. Our religious nut who is also a drug dealer, main character with a troubled past who is also into the popular girl, and the guy who gets friend zoned.

Really on paper, and even writing this, so much of this film doesn’t have much going for it yet it works. Its a fun, simple, and incredibly mindless horror film that gets by with a unique enough premise to it where it can have some fun.

Score :

3.5 / 5