Whispers is a 1990[6] Canadian horror film directed by Douglas Jackson and starring Victoria Tennant, Jean LeClerc, Chris Sarandon, Peter MacNeill, and Linda Sorenson.

Writer Hilary Thomas is being pursued by psychopath Bruno Clavel, a man she once interviewed at his family's Massachusetts orchard while researching for a book.

Clavel plays a cat-and-mouse game with Hilary, repeatedly breaking into her Manhattan apartment and tormenting her, often calling her "Catherine."

Clavel's check register shows he made repeated payments to a small number of people, including a local bookseller and an elderly woman, Mrs. Yancey.

Meanwhile, Hilary and Tony continue to meet with several individuals to gather information, including Clavel's psychologist, who recounts his disturbed state of mind: Clavel believed himself damned to hell by his mother Catherine, an occultist, and claimed Catherine continued to live on by possessing others' bodies after her death.

Inside, Hilary notices a portrait of Catherine, who bears a striking resemblance to herself—she realizes that the original Clavel brother she met had stalked her due to her likeness to his mother, and his hope that he might resurrect Catherine in her body; the other Clavel brother, who had been kept locked away for most of his life, envisions Hilary as a manifestation of his mother, and wishes to kill her to avenge his own abuse.

In the house, Tony is attacked by the living Clavel brother upstairs, and Hilary finds Jonathan's corpse impaled on a fence outside.

[8] For the dual villain role of Bruno Clavel, the production cast Montreal-based actor Jean Leclerc, who at that time had earned fame for his appearances on several American soap operas.

[11] Because they were allowed a limited supply of the insects, the art department had to create fake plastic models, which were interspersed with the actual beetles.

[20] Fred Haeseker of the Calgary Herald felt the film was lackluster, writing: "In Whispers, a baroque story line is married to a plodding pace and wooden acting.

[21] The Abbotsford News's John Wesley Ireland awarded the film one out of five stars, writing that "Fear may shout and terror may whisper, but unfortunate patrons stuck in this hound will just snore," adding that Tennant "sleepwalks through her role.

"[22] Steven Mazey of the Ottawa Citizen likened the film to the "cheap tax shelter disasters" produced in Canada the previous decade, deeming the direction inept and the screenplay "full of unbelievably bad TV drama dialogue.

"[23] Critic Leonard Maltin called the film a "routine, predictable thriller," but praised LeClerc's performance as "amusingly loony.

"[24] John Stanley, writing in the Creature Features Movie Guide, praised the film as an "unusually good adaptation... all cleverly arranged by writer Anita Doohan and carefully shot by director Douglas Jackson.