Dafne Keen & Nick Frost Horror Movie Whistle Gets First Poster, Release Date

IFC and Shudder have announced the release date for Whistle, the newest coming-of-age horror thriller led by Dafne Keen (Deadpool and Wolverine) and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead). In addition, the movie’s teaser poster has also been revealed, featuring a closer look at the cursed Aztec artifact.

Check out the Whistle poster below:

When is the release date for Whistle?

Whistle has now been scheduled to arrive in theaters on February 6, 2026. Besides Keen and Frost, the ensemble cast also includes Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), Percy Hynes White (Wednesday), Sky Yang (Last Days), Jhaleil Swaby (The Lake), Ali Skovbye (Breakthrough), Mika Amonsen (Thanksgiving), and more.

“A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down,” reads the movie’s official synopsis. “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.”

Whistle hails from Corin Hardy, who is directing from a screenplay written by Owen Egerton. This marks the filmmaker’s directorial feature comeback in a long while, after previously directing the 2018 Conjuring spin-off The Nun. The movie holds a total running time of 97 minutes or an hour and 37 minutes.

The movie is produced by David Gross, Macdara Kelleher, and Whitney Brown, with John Friedberg serving as an executive producer. The creative team consists of cinematographer Björn Charpentier, editor Nick Emerson, production designer Jennifer Spence, costume designer Leslie Kavanagh, and composer Doomphonic.