Key Highlights
- What I liked about A24‘s latest dive into the genre , undertone, which found its way into the Midnights section of the Sundance Film Festival Saturday night after initially winning the audience award at last summer’s Fantasia Film Festival, is it leaves so much to the imagination rather than pounding you into submission with all the cliches we have come to expect.
- It is creepy as hell, but it lives in reality and travels in soundscapes that even manages to tell us more with our eyes closed rather than open.
- Related Stories News Neon Takes Global On '4 X 4: The Event', 2nd Horror Movie With Alex Ullom - Sundance Reviews Sundance Film Festival 2026: All Of Deadline's Movie Reviews undertone represents the feature film writing and directing debut for Ian Tuason who pulls from his own personal experience to dream up this scenario of a paranormal podcast that stumbles on to a truly terrifying situation for an unseen pregnant married couple.
- That didn’t happen to Tuason, but he began to get the idea for the film while caregiving during the pandemic for his dying parents in his hometown of Toronto.
- His mother died in just a few months, his father 2 1/2 years later, but the experience of watching slow death and hallucinations led him literally back to that childhood home where he shot this little piece of what they call “micro horror”.
