undertone Reviews

If yanny laurel was christian but also satanic

It was good at creating tension, anxiety, suspense but then there wasn’t really any payoff?? Like, nothing really happened lol All those spooky camera angles were for no reason. I guess the moral of the story is don’t have sex bc you’ll get pregnant and die

Undertone (Skinamarink Part 2 basically)….. NOT A SINGLE THING HAPPENED UNTIL THE LAST 10 MIN AND THE ENDING MAKES LITERALLY 0 SENSE.


I HATE A24.

This was the one I was most looking forward to and I felt the same disappointment afterwards that I did with Longlegs 😩

The auditory horror component was good but the visual story felt like a let down. The most interesting part was the build up at the end but what it was building towards didn’t feel like enough. The whole thing just felt like it was lacking something.

Probably the scariest movie in which nothing happens. No this isn’t a negative. I think more filmmakers should dive into this subtle horror filmmaking. Nothing is scarier than letting your mind do the work. Definitely a great horror film!

7.7 - I don’t totally disagree with the takes that this was one of the scarier movies in recent years, & that moments of it feel cursed, but I also don’t know if I’ve ever been so frustrated by a horror at the end.

I absolutely loved everything about it for 90% of the run time, but it sort of fell apart for me in the same spot it seemed to win over a majority of fans.

It’s the most strongly I’ve ever felt the skeptic angle. I pride myself on being able to suspend disbelief & this one was a little difficult for me. I’m just not able to fully buy into the haunting side. Evy’s role on their podcast is to play the skeptic, & then she is unable to embrace that role in her own life & I felt like that job fell on the audience. And I don’t like watching a horror that way. I’ll dig into this more below.

The plot isn’t anything new or overly creative. It at times feel like grief, religious trauma, & possession horror have been almost completely depleted, at least when crossed over, over the last decade, but this managed to take those overly familiar themes & still present them interestingly. The slow burn style, the impeccable sound design, & the claustrophobic quarters all work really well for the story. But the little hints along the way forced me to question it all more than I like.

And the last 5 minutes, actually has everyone feeling the most cursed & has this being described as the scariest movie in years, at first felt more confusing & unclear than scary. I love abstract, build-the-monster-in-your-own-mind horror more than any other type, but a couple of the decisions in those last few minutes just didn’t click right away with what they’d been building up.

The best I can say about this on one watch, is that after 5 days, it’s still hanging with me. It did keep me up for a couple hours after watching but more so because I was dissecting than because i was terrified.

I will absolutely give this a second watch when i get the chance. I just hope it pieces together a little more cleanly.

Spoiler warning for my skepticism explanation:

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A former drinker, who has fallen back off the wagon, not sleeping, taking trazodone (I think), probably pregnant, living essentially in isolation, studying horror stories, & doing all of her work around 3 am, who is feeling immense guilt about the current state of her relationship with her mother & her mother’s health, is absolutely going to drive herself mad & probably dissociate, hallucinate, & even have manic episodes or psychosis more often than not, no? It was a perfect powder keg from the first 10 minutes.

The clock stopping, the drawings on the wall, even the phone calls could all be so easily explained by dissociation & mania. Her metaphorical “I killed my mom” confession is just immense guilt manifesting over her not praying with her mom or going to Mass with her when called. She doesn’t feel fit to be a mom because she feels she failed as a daughter. And all the audio clips & backwards emails, & rabbit holes into evil messages in songs and videos is such classic horror copypasta, it’s too easy to want to dismiss it as fake.

I just want to buy in with horror movies so badly, & this asked me in too many ways to question it. I went from being annoyed at Evy’s podcast persona, wanting her to stop questioning so harshly, to instead being shocked she couldn’t apply it to her own life. But I guess that’s pretty much how we as people generally operate, isn’t it? It’s hard to step back & macro view our own lives when we’re in the thick of it.

Seriously underdeveloped plot.

Rated: 6.8/10 ⭐️

I wanted to see if a horror movie relying mostly on podcast audio could pull off scares. I like this; it’s an eerie experiment using limited visuals to make the sound design super terrifying.

What Worked:
• Nina Kiri carrying the whole movie visually by herself is super impressive.
• Creepy podcast audio and off-screen voices create a suffocating vibe I totally dug.
• Playing nursery rhymes backward gave me genuine chills.

The Friction:
• The single-location setup kinda dragged for me in the middle.
• The ending felt abrupt; I honestly wished they fleshed out the demon lore more.
• Some frantic callers at the end sounded forced and pulled me out.

Verdict:
I like this. Watch for slow-burn audio horror. Skip if you need big visual scares.

Super unsettling

This movie relies heavily on sound design which its pretty damn good at, unfortunately it still has the lazy horror beats and tropes

The shots are good, constantly has you scanning a scene for something

I would have enjoyed this more if the demon wasn’t talking towards the end and it was more sinister-esque

Scariest part of the film was me checking my phone to witness a flash bang from my brightness .

Keeps you on edge at some points but it’s mostly really slow. I thought it was gonna lead into something decent but it just failed at getting to that point imo.

I can’t summon up any redeeming qualities. This movie was complete ass

Just a daemonic entity.

I’m not sure how to feel💀 I’m already not the biggest fan of supernatural movies that don’t lean into sci-fi, but watching this drunk with ear buds in a pitch black room triggered my paranoia in a way few supernatural movies have. I could feel the religious psychosis creeping in😭

this is PRECISELY why I do not watch demonic horror

anyways, reason 378 to never get pregnant and I'm not wearing my headphones for a week to recover from this, but besides that really really good

Kinda creepy but mostly boring which made it hard to get through. Very unsatisfying ending.