{"id":223785,"date":"2026-01-08T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:11:09","slug":"a24-horror-conjures-a-terrifying-entity-via-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223785\/","title":{"rendered":"A24 Horror Conjures A Terrifying Entity Via Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing more terrifying than someone telling you they\u2019re starting a podcast. (To be clear, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Empire Podcast<\/a> does not count in this instance.) That seems to be the starting point for A24\u2019s latest horror outing, Undertone \u2013 a spooky-looking pod-horror that conjures terror in audible form. There\u2019s a freaky first trailer, from the studio that made a name for itself with supremely terrifying indie horror films \u2013 take a look here and see if Undertone might be set to join that lineage.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a nice hooky premise here; that a podcast recording of crime series \u2018The Undertone\u2019 unearths a treasure trove of files containing increasingly sinister messages (especially when played backwards), bringing forth an eerie entity intent on, at best, leaving a 1-star review on Apple Podcasts, and, at worst, delivering demonic activity via your earholes. The film comes from writer-director Ian Tuason, with a cast of largely-unknown actors: Nina Kiri, Kris Holden-Ried, Mich\u00e8le Duquet, Keana Lyn Bastidasand, Sarah Beaudin, Seled Calderon and Adam DiMarco. Here\u2019s hoping the results are more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/bring-her-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bring Her Back<\/a> than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/opus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Opus<\/a>, when looking at A24\u2019s recent horror output.<\/p>\n<p>Undertone is set to hit US cinemas on March 13; hopefully it won\u2019t be too long a wait beyond that for UK viewers. In the meantime, you can get a horrific dose of weekly pod-pain via the Empire Podcast every Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s nothing more terrifying than someone telling you they\u2019re starting a podcast. (To be clear, the Empire Podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-223785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}