The Whisper Man: No reason to eavesdrop

The Whisper Man (2026) • View trailerThree stars (out of five); rated R, for bloody violence, disturbing images, profanity and suicideAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick Bang Director James Ashcroft gets points for maintaining a consistently creepy atmosphere of unsettling dread, but that can’t compensate for a storyline that relies too heavily on coincidence, contrivance and just plain stupid behavior by the primary characters. Tom (Adam Scott) and his young son Jake (Acston Luca Porto) initially are optimisticabout their move to a new community ... but they'll soon have second thoughts,starting with the quietly malevolent house in which they've chosen to live.Scripters Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer have taken considerable liberty with their uneven adaptation of British crime author Steve Mosby’s 2019 debut novel (written under the pseudonym Alex North). For starters, the setting has been moved to the fictitious woodsy community of Garretton, New Jersey, still reeling from a series of…