After scaring up a sturdy show at the box office, A24’s auditory horror movie undertone heads to streaming next month.
undertone begins streaming on HBO Max on June 26.
Nina Kiri (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) stars in the film as Evy, a paranormal podcast host who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver.
When she receives audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing supernatural noises, she realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own. Each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.
The eerie horror movie marks writer/director Ian Tuason‘s feature debut. Tuason will next tackle the eighth installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise.
“With the added element of audio in undertone, it’s not just imagining what you might see, it’s also imagining what you might hear,” Tuason previously explained of his auditory horror. “It’s the intermingling of the visual and auditory that amplifies the horror.”
Kris Holden-Ried (“The Umbrella Academy”), Michèle Duquet (The Virgin Suicides), Keana Lyn Bastidas (“The Hardy Boys”), and Jeff Yung (The Shrouds) round out the cast.
Joe Lipsett came away from the film’s Fantasia premiere a massive fan of the scares. He wrote in his 4.5-skull review, “I can’t remember the last time a movie made every hair on my body stand up, but undertone got me good.” Of the film’s use of sound, he writes, “It’s more than that, though; more so than any other recent horror film, The Undertone lives and dies on how sound and silence are used. And it is used incredibly well.”
undertone premiered at last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, igniting a seven-figure bidding war, and made its US debut at Sundance in January.
Turn the lights down low and sink into an aural nightmare when Tuason’s feature debut lands on streaming in June.
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