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.

That’s it I’m never getting pregnant

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!

Great performance by the actors and really good unsettling cinematography. Poor execution with too much cutting to black. The demon voice was giving a little too much Sauron as well and really pulled me out of it.

Super unsettling

See.. I liked the suspenseful buildup, but it led to absolutely nothing!! I was so ready for a jump scare or something but every time they had the chance to, it was brushed off!! Idk I feel like she lived in the exact house that it all went down in & she’s undergoing the same ➡️

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

Just a daemonic entity.

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.

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.

I loved the camera work… only

Kinda waste of my time…

i feel wonderful

i like how it relies on sound, it really makes you focus in on the audio and trying to find secrets
the plot was interesting and i appreciated the internet horror aspects, it felt like a creepypasta or an arg with the themes of pregnancy and fear of being a mother

creeeepy but like where’s the explanation

Honestly not that great of a movie but I was genuinely anxious the entire time. It sadly used a lot of camerawork to produce this anxiety without anything to show for it