Whistle and I’ll Come to You

A reserved professor takes a seaside holiday, seeking solitude and relaxation. After discovering a strange whistle in a graveyard, he begins to experience eerie disturbances and ghostly visions. What begins as academic curiosity slowly unravels into a haunting confrontation with something beyond rational explanation.

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  Miller accumulates a sense of unease that shades into unavoidable dread through his carefully composed black-and-white shots. The professor is continually caught in angles of architecture or seen in the reflection of mirrors or wet beaches, implying that the spectral figure coming for him may be as much a product of his own diffuse psychology as any revenant spirit. The nightmare following his blowing of the whistle is a tour-de-force and one of the great screen depictions of the supernatural, one that happily avoids the lazy Hollywood convention of a dreamer waking bolt upright and screaming.