Anytime a new horror movie comes out, horror fans and critics trip over themselves to call it the scariest movie since Hereditary, which was the scariest movie since Paranormal Activity, which was the scariest since The Blair Witch Project, which was the scariest since The Exorcist, and so on in an endless horror ouroboros of escalating hype. Well, Undertone, a possession movie about paranormal podcast hosts who stumble upon a ten-part series of increasingly cursed audio clips, is actually, hyperbole aside, the scariest movie in quite some time. It earns that title not with jump scares or gore, but with an impressively economical command of its audience’s every sense. Writer-director Ian Tucson sets his hooks early, relying on restraint, minimalism, and some of the best sound design in the genre to ratchet tension from subtle unease to full-body chill. Read More