We have a new look at The Whisper Man, the upcoming crime thriller based on Alex North’s bestselling novel. The film will arrive on Netflix on 28 August, bringing the dark mystery to screen with a cast led by Adam Scott, Robert De Niro and Michelle Monaghan. Netflix has also shared a new poster for the film, featuring the eerie rhyme: “If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken.”
Based on North’s New York Times bestselling book, The Whisper Man follows a widowed crime writer, played by Adam Scott, whose eight-year-old son is abducted after the family relocates for a fresh start. Desperate for help, he turns to his estranged father, played by Robert De Niro, a retired former police detective, only to uncover a chilling connection to a decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as the Whisper Man.
If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken. If your window’s left unlatched, you’ll hear him tapping at the glass. If you’re lonely, sad, and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you.
Monaghan also stars, alongside Michael Keaton, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Acston Luca Porto and Will Brill. The film is directed by James Ashcroft, whose previous work includes The Rule of Jenny Pen and Coming Home in the Dark. The screenplay comes from Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer, with producers including Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco and Kassee Whiting.
The new poster leans into the film’s unsettling nursery rhyme, showing a child near a door as a hand reaches through the mail slot. It is very creepy and immediately gives the film an eerie serial killer thriller feel.
For CultureCues, The Whisper Man looks like one of Netflix’s most chilling releases this year. The cast alone makes it worth paying attention to, but the story has that dark, page-turning quality that could translate really well on screen. We will be watching, probably from behind a cushion, and we just hope that creepy nursery rhyme does not keep us up at night…
The Whisper Man arrives on Netflix on 28 August.
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