The Surreal Project

The Whispering Man (2019) is a movie I recently watched for free off Tubi. The storyline surrounds a man who is a YouTube blogger who inherits a strange painting from his grandparents home. Shortly after bringing the painting home the man's home seems possessed by a being trapped in the painting that may have been responsible for his grandparents death as well. This movie is directed by Jozsef Gallai (Aftermath and Moth) and stars Andras Korscmaros (The Rite), David Fecske (The Poltergeist Diaries), Agota Dubai (Spirits in the Dark) and Rob Oldfield (Moth). This is a found footage film that feels like some guys and his group of friends made it. The acting, script and character interactions were painful. The guy pictured on the cover of the film...is never in the film, just the noises he makes as people are attacked by him. I was definitely hoping for a little more effort from this film. I'd give this a 2/10 and recommend skipping it.

Good luck with this one. They had an idea, it's an idea which has been done but still they tried. The painting of the whispering man isn't bad. There's a nice song. That's about it.

The acting is woefully bad. You'll think it's bad then they introduce another character and it gets worse. There's a smugness about the two main guys, like they're 15 year olds who have just smoked their first doobie.

It's pretty dull. Terrible acting. Don't bother.

A story about a demonically possessed painting offers at least some possibilities for generating horror; how astoundingly far this can be taken in skillful hands was demonstrated with the conceptually similar idea of a demonically possessed mirror in OCULUS (2013), a minor horror (non-found footage) masterpiece.

THE WHISPERING MAN, a story centered on a possessed painting and set in Hungary, has at least the seed of an idea that could have turned into an effective horror film, but unfortunately nothing is done with it here.

Virtually everything is bad: the dialogue, the delivery, the direction, the plot, and on and on. On top of that, every single character in the small cast behaves like an idiot at some point. Seldom have I seen a film which suffered from such a bad case of stupid character syndrome.

This is bottom of the barrel stuff. Not recommended.

If you like Hungarians sitting on couches and talking to the camera, you're going to love this movie. It never shows us anything, opting instead to let Hungarians on sofas describe it. Why bother with action sequences and flashbacks when you can let a Hungarian on a sofa talk to you instead?

Worst acting I've ever seen. I died laughing when the main character said "..I'm not an actor."