A24 simply dropped the trailer for Undertone, a chilling indie horror movie that leans exhausting into sound, silence, and psychological dread. This unsettling paranormal thriller will take horror followers on an unnerving experience.
The movie first premiered on the Fantasia Movie Competition in 2025, the place it stood out as a nerve-shredding audio-driven expertise. It’s now gearing up for an additional main showcase on the Sundance Movie Competition later this month as a part of the Midnight part, which looks like the proper house for a film this darkish and intense.
Undertone follows Evy, performed by Nina Kiri, a supernatural podcast host whose life is already fraying as she strikes again house to look after her dying mom. Her podcast, fittingly titled The Undertone, turns into her anchor whereas every thing else slips out of focus.
Issues take a disturbing flip when her co-host Justin, voiced by Adam DiMarco, sends her a brand new batch of audio recordings. These tapes come from a pregnant couple documenting what seems to be a mystical presence invading their house.
As Evy listens, the recordings begin to mirror her personal experiences in methods which are not possible to disregard. Every tape digs deeper, blurring the road between coincidence and one thing much more sinister. As one chilling second within the trailer places it, “It desires to be heard!”
What makes Undertone particularly creepy is its dedication to sound as the first car for horror. Evy is the one character ever seen on display. Everybody else exists purely by voice recordings, cellphone calls, and audio information.
That artistic selection turns the movie into an immersive nightmare the place what you hear is way extra terrifying than something you might see. The trailer makes it clear that the sound design is the engine driving the worry.
The movie is written and directed by Ian Tuason, marking his first function after beforehand directing The Prevalence on Hole Highway and several other brief movies.
The solid additionally contains Kris Holden-Ried, Michèle Duquet, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Sarah Beaudin, Seled Calderon, and Adam DiMarco, all contributing voice performances that layer into the movie’s eerie audio tapestry.
Right here’s the official synopsis: “Strained by the accountability of getting to look after her dying mom, Evy (Nina Kiri) seeks respite from the loneliness of her fragmented actuality. Now dwelling in a home filled with keepsakes & recollections, her sanity and construction lies inside her work on a supernatural podcast, The Undertone.
“Whereas she often performs skeptic to the creepy (and sometimes disturbing) audio information despatched to her by co-host Justin (Adam DiMarco) for podcast fodder, the newest submission hits in another way. A sequence of 10 recordings from a younger pregnant couple are unfurled one after the other, every extra ominous than the final.
“As Evy attracts parallels to her present plight, hidden messages manifest, pushing her additional towards insanity.”
A24 will launch Undertone in choose U.S. theaters beginning March thirteenth, 2026.
