Undertone Reviews Reveal if A24 Movie Is Too Scary for Casual Horror Fans

With Undertone being released this weekend, many are wondering how scary the movie actually is and if it’ll be too much for those who don’t love ultra-terrifying horror movies.

Directed by Ian Tuason, who has signed on to make Paranormal Activity 8, Undertone is the new A24 horror movie starring Nina Kiri as a woman named Evy. Having been dubbed the “scariest movie you’ll ever hear” by Collider, the cast also includes Adam DiMarco, Michéle Duque, and Keana Lyn Bastidas.

“The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way,” the synopsis reads.

What are critics saying about Undertone?

The trailers for Undertone have all been intense and suggest that this won’t be a movie for casual horror fans — my girlfriend, for example, has told me that I’ll be seeing it alone whenever the trailer plays in a theater. But how scary is it, really, according to critics who have seen early screenings?

Undertone currently has an 83 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, with many saying that it will give audiences some nightmare-fuel to keep them awake at night. /Film’s Chris Evangelista calls it “exceptionally scary” and says it’ll get under the audience’s skin, as a story like this is “rarely told this well.”

RogerEbert.com’s Brian Tallerico praised the film’s claustrophobia and said that the movie’s slow burn results in “one of the most truly chill-inducing final acts in recent memory.” Meanwhile, Perri Nemiroff called it “the first movie in a real long time that [she] lost sleep over.” She continued, “I think the last movie that kept me up at night was the original Paranormal Activity.”

Not everyone, however, seems to agree, as Los Angeles Times’ Amy Nicholson wrote, “I’d love to understand why horror films that I find excruciatingly dull give others the heebie-jeebies.” The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee also wasn’t a huge fan, as he says that there’s “enough sighs of familiarity to give horror fans a scary case of deja vu.”

Undertone will be released in United States theaters this weekend.

Source: Comingsoon.net