The Mr Whispers trailer has made its exclusive debut through Dread Central, offering audiences their first proper glimpse at the abandoned cinema and uncanny children’s legend at the heart of The B-Team’s late-1990s found-footage horror.

Dread Central has shared the official trailer for Mr Whispers, the first feature-length production from The B-Team, the experimental filmmaking wing operating within the wider British Horror Studio.

Writing for Dread Central, Matt Konopka unveiled the trailer on 6 October, describing the film as a “lo-fi found footage nightmare” and praising the deliberately rough-hewn atmosphere glimpsed in its first footage.

It is a description that seems particularly apt.

Mr Whispers is unapologetically indebted to the found-footage explosion of the late 1990s. Most obviously, there are echoes of The Blair Witch Project, but rather than attempting to disguise those VHS-era origins beneath a more polished contemporary aesthetic, the filmmakers appear to have doubled down on them.

The picture takes place during the late 1990s and follows a group of young filmmakers investigating an abandoned cinema with an unsettling history.

Decades earlier, local children disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Their disappearances appear to share an inexplicable connection with an obscure cartoon and the strange porcelain-faced character who appeared within it.

His name, naturally enough, is Mr Whispers.

What begins as an amateur documentary investigation gradually becomes something considerably less comfortable when the students decide to spend the night inside the cinema itself.

The result is a film which seems determined to recreate not merely the visual texture of late-1990s found footage, but something of the particular atmosphere that made the format frightening in the first place: imperfect cameras, uncertain images and the uncomfortable suggestion that what we are watching was never really intended to be seen.

The B-Team’s First Feature

Mr Whispers represents the first feature production released under The B-Team banner. The film was supported by a successful crowdfunding campaign which introduced the project and its VHS-era occult premise to backers.

The company was created as an experimental development wing of British Horror Studio, offering emerging filmmakers working within the studio community an opportunity to develop distinctive, comparatively small-scale feature films of their own.

It sits alongside the larger production activity associated with companies including Hex Studios and the revived Amicus Productions, while pursuing a deliberately more experimental mandate.

The B-Team has previously spoken of its ambition to champion artist-led horror, encouraging younger directors, performers and crew members to develop their voices without sacrificing the eccentricities that can make independent filmmaking interesting.

Mr Whispers seems an appropriate film with which to begin.

The feature is directed by Dorian Todd, Oliver Revie and Seumas MacNeil, with Todd and MacNeil providing the screenplay.

At its centre is Megan Tremethick as Kathryn, leading the group of young investigators into the deserted cinema.

Tremethick has become an increasingly familiar presence across British Horror Studio productions, including The Reign of Queen Ginnarra, In the Grip of Terror and her own directorial debut, Spoiling You.

Her rather classical screen presence has always made her an unusual figure within contemporary independent horror. There is something of an older tradition of British cinema in Tremethick’s appearance and theatrical performance style, and putting that quality inside the deliberately degraded world of VHS found footage creates an interesting contrast.

She is joined by Dorian Todd, Novarro Ramon and Sam McMillan, an ensemble also familiar to viewers of British Horror Studio’s forthcoming supernatural noir Black Chariot, whose own trailer recently received an exclusive unveiling through Dread Central.

There is also an appearance from studio veteran Stephen Corrall, whose collaborations with the filmmakers include the medieval horror epic The Reign of Queen Ginnarra.

Horror Inside a Cinema

There is, of course, something especially appealing about seeing a horror film concerning a haunted cinema while actually sitting inside one.

The premise brings to mind, albeit in a quite different stylistic tradition, Lamberto Bava’s gloriously excessive 1985 horror Demons, another film which recognised the peculiar pleasure of transforming the cinema itself into the place from which the audience cannot escape.

Mr Whispers appears to approach the idea through altogether murkier territory.

Instead of neon, gore and heavy metal, we have abandoned corridors, failing video equipment, fragments of forgotten children’s entertainment and young investigators wandering deeper into a story they perhaps ought to have left alone.

Audiences will shortly have the opportunity to experience precisely that atmosphere on the big screen. The film forms part of the inaugural programme being released through BHS Picture House, the newly established theatrical distribution wing of British Horror Studio.

Mr Whispers Cinema Dates

Lumière Cinema — Romford

23–29 October 2026. Dread Central’s announcement gives these dates for the start of the theatrical run. Visit Lumière Cinema for performance times and booking information.

Peckhamplex — London

Tuesday 24 November 2026, 8.30 p.m. View the screening and book Mr Whispers tickets at Peckhamplex.

Further Screenings

Further engagements are planned at Southport Bijou Cinema in North West England and the Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy, Fife, with individual dates to be announced. Check BHS Picture House and the venues for confirmed listings before travelling.

The wider BHS Picture House programme includes Amicus Productions’ In the Grip of Terror, Hex Studios’ Black Chariot, Megan Tremethick’s Spoiling You and Mr Whispers, with additional venues being added as the distribution network develops.

For a film so thoroughly fascinated by abandoned cinemas, there is something rather satisfying about Mr Whispers finding its audience in functioning ones.

And with Dread Central now having opened the doors and allowed audiences their first proper look inside, we will soon discover whether Mr Whispers is quite as keen to let them leave.

Our sister publication, British Horror Chronicle, also reports on the Mr Whispers trailer and its Dread Central unveiling.

Robert Guthrie is Amicus Horror’s Arts Correspondent.