Good evening fellow readers! I hope everyone has enjoyed March, it’s hard to get into the spring spirit what with the weather flipping and flopping from freezing to hot, but this shall pass, right? We will all be able to enjoy a beautiful spring and summer here soon. BUT I’m not here to talk about the weather, I’m here to talk about Undertone, many people raved about it being the #1 horror movie for 2026, so let’s brew about it!
I had wanted to watch the movie when it first came out February 13th, because I mean what better way to spend a Friday the 13th then, to go see a scary movie!!! However, life got in the way and I had to wait until now. I’ve been super excited since I seen the trailers, I mean I always wanted to do a true crime or paranormal podcast myself, so I was vicariously living through these trailers UNTIL I saw the movie.
Now, it definitely had me jumping, it follows the main character, Evy, who’s living with her mother, who is in hospice care, she’s on her way out so, what does a grown child do? Take care of their dying parent which is a hard task to undertake emotionally, but a meaningful one, I know I would want to do that for my own parents. Either way, Evy is a co-podcaster with her partner in crime Justin and their next podcast is about 10 mp4 files they received from an unknown sender. AS the movie progress, things start to occur at Evy’s mom’s house that go from strange to scary as her and Justin delve deeper and deeper into the files.
This is where MY disappoint occurs, they DON’T do their research, they find out the names of the people on the recordings, they email the sender which comes back as a “return to sender” in other words its an email that they can’t get a response from, but why not trace the IP address? If, strange and spooky things are happening why not put a pause on the production of this particular podcast? Put it on the shelf, until you no more? The recordings of the woman on the file, Jessa, she’s saying things backwards, why not research it more cautiously instead of driving 100 miles an hour without looking where you are going?
But I digress, I believe that’s what the direction was meant to be for the movie, and wraps it up quickly without knowing what happens to Justin and no one sees what happens To Evy and her mother, because it’s off screen. It left me me wound up but nowhere to go from there. I KNOW 99.9% of horror movies don’t end well, but I think they could have taken it into a different direction. Maybe, it’s because I want to do a podcast that’s why I’m so salty?
I feel like the ending was very lackluster to be honest, sped up and wrapped because they didn’t know where to go from there. But what do you think? Have you seen Undertone? Did it give you a pause on the idea or do you think they could have delved deeper before everything spun out of control?
As Always Keep On Brewin!