20 Recent Horror Movies That Made ONE Big Mistake

"Cursed object" horror movies can be a whole ton of fun, and on paper Corin Hardy's Whistle looked like an absolute blast, as a group of students find themselves pursued by their own future deaths after one of them blows an Aztec Death Whistle.

The potential for a host of creative Final Destination-style death scenes speaks for itself, yet only one or two of the deaths actually prove memorable at all, most of them lacking the gnarly inventiveness you might reasonably expect.

But Whistle well and truly falls short in its third act when it's time for the central characters to figure out how to defeat the whistle.

Ultimately the characters realise that they can survive by temporarily dying and being resuscitated - a rather played-out concept that's already been done to death in the likes of Flatliners and a few Final Destination sequels.

As a result Whistle's climax felt like a warmed-over retread of an idea we've seen executed better elsewhere, concluding the film on an absolute "That's it?" shoulder shrug.