“Dead Whisper” (** out of four) was an obtuse suspense melodrama about an unscrupulous lawyer (Samuel Dunning) who has a crisis of conscience and is drawn to a mysterious island in the hopes of resurrecting and reconnecting with his deceased daughter (Samantha Hill) but finds that his soul, his serenity, and his sanity are all slipping away in the process. Moodily shot and made and you keep hoping that picture will lead somewhere but it doesn’t, and turns out to be one more derivation (i.e. ripoff) of “The Shining.”