Every generation gets the monster it deserves. For the Victorians, it was mad scientist Victor Frankenstein or regal bloodsucker Count Dracula; in the 1980s, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger violated safe suburban and summer camp spaces; and the 2000s saw the rise of torture porn franchises such as Saw , which reflected a nation’s debates about “enhanced interrogation” techniques.

With their new horror film Whistle , director Corin Hardy and writer Owen Egerton give teens of today their own nightmare in the form of visions summoned by an Aztec death whistle. A ghastly object with a grinning skull on one end and a thick, ugly pipe protruding from the other, the whistle is (loosely) inspired by real artifacts, and in this movie, it brings death via monstrous apparitions to anyone who h

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