The Whispering Man (2019)

 

Mark and his brother Tommy go to clean out their grandmothers home. Actually they’re just going to take anything valuable and leave the rest for whoever buys the house to sort through. Is that normal in Hungary or are they jerks?

Mark’s focus in the house is finding the painting called The Whispering Man. The painting has been in the family for decades but his grandmother hid it in the attic because she thought it was cursed. Mark points out the nail in the wall where the painting used to hang, leaving me to wonder why anyone would hang a cursed painting on their wall.

After bringing the painting home, Mark begins having nightmares and strange things happen. He has dreams of an abandoned asylum, which he tells his girlfriend he doesn’t recognize. However he tells the camera he knows exactly where it is. Oh yes, because Mark has a YouTube channel called Chasing Fear in which he does videos about the paranormal.  So we’re going to see everything that happens because he’ll film it all.

The film was made in Hungary and the actors speak English. It might have been better for them to speak their first language since the acting is often stilted. However they’ll get a wider audience by using English since some people won’t watch subtitled movies.  It’s ok but there isn’t anything new here. There is nothing in the movie that resembles the weirdo on the cover.

At one point Mark’s brother Tommy walk in and says “Oh hi Mark” and all I could think of was Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.  Not sure if it was just an inside joke defending the film or a normal greeting.