Corin Hardy, the director of The Nun and The Hallow, is set to direct a new high school horror movie titled Whistle. The film will star Dafne Keen (Logan, The Acolyte), Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (Wednesday), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).

In Whistle, a group of high school students stumble upon a cursed Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle summons 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.

The film was written by Owen Egerton (Blood Fest, Mercy Black), adapted from his own short story. It’s produced by David Gross (Room) for No Trace Camping and Macdara Kelleher (The Pope’s Exorcist) for Wild Atlantic Pictures with Black Bear handling international sales.

Production is set to begin next month in Canada.

Hardy told Deadline, “The premise of Whistle is simple, immediate and has a fresh, haunting mythology. A cursed object that summons your future death to come and find you. The screenplay has echoes of some of my favourite classic horrors like The Ring, A Nightmare On Elm Street or It Follows, with elements of seminal high school movies The Breakfast Club and Donnie Darko. I’m thrilled to be working with this brilliant young cast to bring this inventive, terrifying and cinematic new horror to death… I mean life.”

Whistle is shaping up to be a must-see for fans of horror movies. With its talented cast and crew, and its unique and terrifying premise, it’s sure to be a thrill ride from start to finish.