Robert De Niro stars in chilling new crime thriller coming to Netflix | Films | Entertainment

The next big film coming to Netflix this August is a chilling story focused on these three sentences: “If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken. If your window’s left unlatched, you’ll hear him tapping at the glass. If you’re lonely, sad, and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you.”

Netflix shared: “That’s the chilling playground rhyme at the centre of The Whisper Man, a new adaptation of Alex North’s best-selling novel of the same name. Starring Oscar winner Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott, the new film follows an investigation into a serial killer thought to have been imprisoned years ago. But when children start disappearing, the playground rhyme comes back to life — and the retired detective who first arrested the so-called Whisper Man is called back into action.”

TUDUM added: “Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Alex North. When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as “The Whisper Man.”

The Whisper Man hits Netflix on August 28, 2026.