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Undertone review – disappointing podcast horror is mostly skippable
['Benjamin Lee']
Guardian Middle East
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.
What it does do is make for an impressively resourceful use of a low budget, the whole thing costing about $500,000.
The pair co-host a podcast that analyses creepy tales, Eva as the skeptic and Justin as the believer, the pair’s flirtatious pitter-patter positioning them as the Mulder and Scully of the audio world.
Undertone is ultimately less standalone horror and more sizzle reel for what Tuason can do (as well as warning of what he can’t quite do just yet), and as that it’s worked just fine.
Scarily effective then, and a far more satisfying ending than anything he’s yet to conjure.