#undertone 2026

[creekbed-burial]

Hot take apparently: Undertone is a fun and effective horror movie if you dont go into it thinking its going to be “ThE sCaRiEsT mOvIe EvEr!!!”

[slashericons]

Evy — Undertone (2026)

[sharkonasock]

if you as a TMA, Night Vale, Malevolent listener should ever go see a movie... Undertone was actually phenomenal I'll never be the same

[wordssometimesfail]

Ranking (new) movies I've seen in theaters this year:

1. Obsession - so far best movie of the year for me. Scary, funny, and gave me lots to chew on thematically. I haven't stopped thinking about it, and I am this 🤏🏼 close to writing tragic OG!Nikki/Wish!Nikki semi-selfcest

2. undertone - fucking scared the shit out of me. The horror of watching your parent slowly die and the inherent horror of your childhood home hit me right in the gut. I know it's divisive but I found it truly haunting.

3 (tie). Hokum - the most heartwarming, coziest horror movie I've seen in a minute. Not very scary, but yes very fun and sweet. The framing device alone is worth the price of admission. 1408 meets an Irish folk tale. I kind of wish we got a bit more time with the antagonists, though.

3 (tie). Send Help - couldn't decide which of these I liked better. This was just such a blast, so funny and over the top, and did exactly what I wanted it to. I don't have much to say about it, but it was so fucking fun.

4. Backrooms - flawed script but overall a very fun and ambitious movie. I appreciated that it had the patience to really let you sit in the space, the sets were fucking fantastic, and some of the scares were well-crafted. However, it feels like it's missing a second act, and the characters felt underbaked.

5. Wuthering Heights - "it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". Gorgeous to look at, but can only gesture in the vague direction of actual themes and ideas. Weirdly enough manages to emphasize the colourism MORE through the fucking insane casting, but isn't smart enough to do anything with that. It insists SO hard that it's sexy and adult that it somehow loops back around to feeling sterile and childish. Banger score and soundtrack though.

6. Five Nights at Freddie's 2 - genuinely one of the worst screenplays I've ever seen in a finished, big budget movie. Borderline incomprehensible. Gets points for the animatronics still being sick as fuck, and for the bad script being really funny. Loses points because Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard don't even fucking interact and unless you know the lore you won't even know why they did that stunt casting because the movie doesn't fucking explain it, and I only know it because my partner likes the MatPat FNAF theories

7. Lee Cronin's The Mummy - technically a better movie than FNAF 2 but it's not funny-bad so I hate it more. There wasn't even a fucking mummy.

[thishazeleyeddemon]

my take on Undertone is that it's essentially watching a creepypasta, which I find fun and meta. The main characters discuss creepypastas, and then one happens around them. It's not the most original movie but it is a solid, fun time. The ending really got me!

[caffeinated-crownguard]

I've only seen a few movies, but A24 has been on a roll lately!! I like that they are giving opportunities to younger writers/directors, and it's really paying off. Some of the best movies I've seen recently were from them

[nijigasakilove]

Undertone ✅ 3.5/5

This was creepy as hell. Always gotta support low budget horror films that try something different. The emphasis on sound rather than straight up jump scares or visual stuff made this particularly unnerving. The direction was really solid, I like how the camera is always in a position that makes you expect something to pop out of the shadows. It plays with the viewers expectations until the end of the film when those fears are realized. It’s like you know you’re descending past the point of no return and horrible things will occur, but you don’t know when. As we know, horror films that focus on a constant scary atmosphere rather than cheap scares are the best.

The issue with this film is the story. Yes, a horrible murder of a young couple occurred in a small town and you run a paranormal podcast and haven’t heard of it? Also, how did the MC know how to spell the demon’s name when typing it into google? Why the fuck are you clicking on files from random emails anyway? There’s just some really dumb actions in this film that took me out of it. Cool idea and technicals though. Nina Kiri was really good as Evy, she just needed a better story overall.

[romchat]

I really enjoyed the last sequence in Undertone but man the horror podcast framing for the rest of the movie was such a slog.

(Although I did find it darkly humorous and poignant that the FMC was damned--literally--whether she decided to have that baby or not. I wonder how purposeful that commentary on religion, abortion rights, and the anti-choice and anti-family movements was.)

Fascinating by which horror movies get praise by contemporary audiences nowadays. I liked the themes but not the structure.