Whistle and I’ll Come to You
- Year: 1968
- Country of origin: UK
- Genre: Biography, Documentary, Music
- Director: Jonathan Miller
- Length: 42 min
Film Synopsis
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.
Critical Perspective
-
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.
John Coulthart, The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies (Thunder Bay Press, 2025)
Whistle and I’ll Come to You Blu-ray editions
See which disc extras are included across selected editions.
| Disc Extras | BFI BD-B/UK 2022 |
|---|---|
| Audio Commentary by Jon Dear | |
| Interview with Director Jonathan Miller and Christopher Frayling | |
| Interview with Ramsey Campbell on MR James | |
| Neil Brand Reads MR James’ Original Story | |
| Ramsey Campbell Reads “The Guide” |
Edition and Packaging Notes
- BFI’s Blu-ray is included in the “Ghost Stories for Christmas, Volume 1” box set. It contains a booklet.
Blu-ray comparison available on 
~ Found an error or know of another edition? Submit a correction or release update. ~