A24’s New Horror Film With Handmaid’s Story Star Clutches Sturdy Rotten Tomatoes Rating Forward Of Launch

Critics are buzzing about Undertone.

The brand new A24 horror film, which is the function debut of writer-director Ian Tuason, follows a podcast host (The Handmaid’s Story‘s Nina Kiri) listening to recordings that could be unleashing an evil entity into the home the place she is caring for her dying mom. The theatrical launch of Undertone kicks off on March 13.

Now that Undertone is only a week out from its debut, critics’ evaluations have come flooding in on Rotten Tomatoes, including to the early evaluations that got here out of screenings at Fantasia and Sundance. Whereas the rating may fluctuate as extra evaluations are added, it at present has a strong 88% on the Tomatometer, giving it the potential to change into Licensed Recent as soon as sufficient evaluations are aggregated.

Critics’ particular person Undertone evaluations are combined to constructive. Whereas it has earned some middling scores, together with 2.5 out of 4 and C+, fairly a number of critics have given the brand new horror film overwhelmingly robust scores. This contains However Why Tho?‘s James Preston Poole, who gave it an ideal 10 out of 10 and stated that it seems like “a movie that feels prefer it actively curses the viewers.”

If it maintains this excessive of a rating by the point it debuts, Undertone may break an unlucky Rotten Tomatoes sample that has been plaguing A24 horror motion pictures over the previous two years. Whereas 2024 began off robust with I Noticed the TV Glow and MaXXXine incomes Recent scores, the corporate’s non-comedic horror titles then flipped constantly from Recent to Rotten and again via the top of 2025.

Nonetheless, Undertone‘s 88% rating comes instantly within the wake of 2025’s Deliver Her Again (the sophomore function from Discuss to Me administrators Danny and Michael Philippou) incomes a Licensed Recent 89%. Beneath, see a breakdown of the Rotten Tomatoes scores earned by A24’s horror titles because the debut of I Noticed the TV Glow in Could 2024:

It stays to be seen if A24 can sustain their present sizzling streak and earn much more consecutive Recent scores with their upcoming horror titles. Nonetheless, their slate of deliberate releases is filled with promising titles from distinguished creators which have the potential to earn strong evaluations.

Their roster of titles following Undertone contains the Chiwetel Ejiofor-led Backrooms (which additionally stars 2026 Greatest Actress Oscar nominee Renate Reinsve), Adam Wingard’s Onslaught, and Jeremy Saulnier’s October.