undertone

Recordings begin arriving from nowhere, and the host of a popular paranormal podcast finds that the stories she profits from have started profiling her back. It is a neat premise for modern horror, because the whole apparatus of the genre podcast, the scepticism, the microphone, the audience waiting for the next episode, becomes the thing that lets something in. Sound is the instrument of dread here, which promises a film that works through headphones and unease rather than spectacle, with the horror building in what you almost hear.

Audio-driven horror fans are the natural crowd, alongside anyone who enjoys haunted-media stories and cursed-recording tradition brought up to date. It runs compact and tightens steadily, keeping the scale small and personal. Expect atmosphere over gore, and a mounting sense that curiosity was the mistake. Watch it late, watch it with the volume up, and be ready for it to make your own listening habits feel slightly less comfortable afterwards.