The Whisper Man

9/6/2026

It was average, not bad, but not good either. We already have seen thousands of movies about this subject - serial killers. Nothing unique, nothing special.

9/11/2026

Director James Ashcroft's **THE WHISPER MAN** is a hodge-podge of other suspense thrillers you've already seen. Sometimes it's **THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS**, then **BLACK PHONE**, or the lesser-seen Sean Penn's **THE PLEDGE** (2001). With one of the most enviable casts in recent memory, the story takes place in the soggy, dour suburbs of New Jersey, where widower and single father Tom Kennedy (Adam Scott) moves into a new home with his socially awkward son, Jake. (And with **HOKUM** earlier this year -- isn't Scott tired of playing novelists?) Estranged from his decorated, long-retired detective father Peter Willis (Robert De Niro), Tom's already complicated life becomes considerably worse when an old (and solved) serial killer case appears to have produced a copycat killer, as the bo