Undertone (2025)
3.5 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 33min
Horror podcasters receive creepy tapes, spooky things happen, and the film just sort of sits there waiting for the credits. It’s a decent setup, but the execution is sluggish to the point of sedation, only waking up in the final act to fling a load of ideas at the screen and hope one sticks.
Nina Kiri does what she can as Evy, but undertone is more interesting as a premise than as an actual film. The strangest thing about it, though, is the queasy anti-abortion subtext humming beneath all the demonic baby panic. That was the only part that genuinely unsettled me — and I’m not convinced the film knows what it’s saying.