{"id":42676,"date":"2026-09-12T07:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42676"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:19:28","slug":"the-whisper-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42676","title":{"rendered":"The Whisper Man (2026) starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott and Michael Keaton \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091226review_whisperman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Whisper Man <\/i>(2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>James Ashcroft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Ben Jacoby, Chase Palmer; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B01W0HNJx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE WHISPER MAN<\/a> by <strong>Alex North<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott <\/strong>and<strong> Michael Keaton<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>If you leave a door half open, soon you&#8217;ll hear the whispers spoken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom Kennedy is a widower raising his young son, Jake, by himself.\u00a0 When Jake disappears, Tom turns to his estranged father, Peter, for help.\u00a0 Peter is a retired police detective. Tom hopes his dad will have some influence and insight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things take a turn for the worse when it becomes clear that Jake was taken by a <em>Whisper Man<\/em> copycat.\u00a0 <em>The Whisper Man<\/em> was a serial killer now in prison serving a life sentence.\u00a0 \u00a0If Jake is with the copycat, he will be killed in soon.\u00a0 The killer&#8217;s ritual was to keep his victims alive for a few days before killing them.<\/p>\n<p>The clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Keaton has a small but important role.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strange things happen in their house before Jake disappears.\u00a0 The fact that his father didn&#8217;t take certain precautions just didn&#8217;t ring true to me.\u00a0 Also the reveal of the Whisper Man copycat killer seemed a stretch.\u00a0 As did the ending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>The Whisper Man <\/i>(2026)<\/strong> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091226review_whisperman2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whisper Man (2026) Director: James Ashcroft Screenplay: \u00a0Ben Jacoby, Chase Palmer; based on THE WHISPER MAN by Alex North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42735,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions\/42735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}