Undertone Trilogy Plans Revealed By Director Of New A24 Horror Movie Ian Tuason

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Be warned, this article contains spoilers for the film Undertone! Even though key characters died in the movie, writer and director Ian Tuason hints that the story isn’t over.

Marking his first feature film, director Mark Tuason’s horror movie follows Evy, a young woman who co-hosts a podcast about urban legends and creepy online stories with her friend Justin. While Evy is dealing with her mother’s illness, they receive strange audio files for the podcast, unknowingly unleashing something evil.

Before the movie comes out on March 13th, Grant Hermanns from ScreenRant spoke with Ian Tuason about Undertone. Tuason revealed he envisions a three-part story, telling Hermanns, “I have a trilogy in mind,” and confirmed that he and A24 are currently exploring how to make it a reality.

Throughout most of its 94 minutes, the film Undertone follows Evy and Justin as they investigate strange audio recordings. These recordings document a young couple, Mike and Jessa, who are experiencing unsettling paranormal activity at night. As they delve deeper, Evy begins to have her own hallucinations, seemingly of her mother, and she and Justin realize they are being haunted by a female demon named Abyzou.

Everything builds to the ending of Undertone, where Evy and Justin finally unlock the way for Abyzou to pursue them by listening to the last recordings. Evy, especially, experiences a terrifying transformation of her childhood home, where her childhood drawings aren’t random at all – they’re actually depictions of Abyzou, covering the walls. Disturbingly, the episode includes quick flashes of someone suffocating with a plastic bag – a method of suicide previously used by Abyzou’s victims, as Evy and Justin discover.

Even though Abyzou appears to have won, there’s still potential for Tuason to continue the Undertone story as a trilogy. A sequel could show that Evy, Justin, or both survived and are now working to understand and stop the demon’s influence on others. They could also be investigating where the mysterious recordings came from and if a real person was behind them.

Another way for Undertone to become a three-part film series would be to show the curse affecting more people. The filmmakers could follow the example set by movies like Smile and The Ring, which successfully continued their stories without resolving the mysteries or changing the outcomes established in the first film.

Whether or not director Tuason gets to make a horror trilogy based on Undertone depends on how well the movie does in theaters. Early signs are promising: critics seem to like it, with a 76% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it’s expected to earn $7 million during its opening weekend – fourteen times its production cost. A24 had a similar positive response to X, which led to a full trilogy, so Tuason could potentially follow the same path.

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2026-03-13 19:50