"There's a swirl of creepy noises in A24's new hyped-up horror Undertone screaming, gargling, singing, banging but nothing is quite loud enough to drown out the swirl of films it's cribbing from. The debut feature from writer-director Ian Tuason, about horror podcasters who receive a set of mysterious recordings, has elements of Paranormal Activity, Session 9, Hereditary, The Ring, The Blair Witch Project and The Exorcist, enough sighs of familiarity to give horror fans a scary case of deja vu."
"What it does do is make for an impressively resourceful use of a low budget, the whole thing costing about $500,000. It's all shot in one house (Tuason's actual home) and for the most part, any sinister goings on are restricted to audio footage, heard through the headphones of our lead Eva (Nina Kiri, who reminds me of a young Alice Eve)."
Undertone follows horror podcasters who receive a set of mysterious recordings that chronicle sleep-talking and deteriorating behavior. The recordings, delivered as ten audio files, escalate in menace and destabilize the skeptical co-host, Eva, who copes with ailing home life, possible pregnancy, and strained relationships. The film leans heavily on audio terror heard through headphones and confines most action to a single house, maximizing an approximately $500,000 budget. Influences from films like Paranormal Activity, Session 9, Hereditary, The Ring, The Blair Witch Project and The Exorcist are evident. Nina Kiri anchors the piece with a restrained performance while Adam DiMarco provides a crucial offscreen voice.
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