A24’s undertone Gets Dolby Cinema Early Access Screenings March 9

Ian Tuason’s auditory horror film undertone intensifies in Dolby Cinema with immersive Atmos sound.

A24’s undertone Heads to Dolby Cinema With Early Access Screenings March 9

You don’t just watch undertone.

You hear it.

And now A24 and Dolby are making sure you feel every whisper.

The studios are teaming up to bring Ian Tuason’s breakout auditory horror film undertone to Dolby Cinema for special early access screenings on March 9, ahead of its nationwide theatrical rollout in other formats on March 13.

If you’ve been tracking this one since its festival run, you already know the buzz.

Hailed as “one of the scariest films you’ll ever hear” and described as “the Blair Witch of auditory horror,” undertone world premiered at Fantasia Film Festival last year before being acquired by A24 in a competitive bidding situation. It then made its stateside premiere at Sundance, solidifying its status as one of the most talked-about genre titles of the season.

Written and directed by Ian Tuason, the film follows the host of a popular paranormal podcast who begins receiving mysterious recordings that slowly unravel her sense of safety — and reality. The horror isn’t built on spectacle. It’s built on sound.

And that’s exactly why Dolby Cinema makes sense.

According to Jed Harmsen, VP and General Manager of Cinema & Group Entertainment at Dolby Laboratories, the immersive Dolby Atmos sound design allows audiences to experience every whisper, silence and scream with heightened clarity. Paired with Dolby Vision’s precision picture quality, even the darkness becomes sharper, more defined — and more suffocating.

This is a film engineered around auditory dread. Spatial sound isn’t an accessory — it’s the weapon.

Dolby Cinema, designed specifically to showcase Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in a controlled environment, promises to deliver the experience exactly as Tuason intended. If undertone truly leans into the psychological power of silence and sonic distortion, Dolby’s format may amplify that terror exponentially.

Early access screenings hit Dolby Cinema locations on March 9, with the broader theatrical release beginning March 13.

Fans can see the film early with tickets here: https://undertone.movie/

If the marketing is to be believed, this isn’t just a horror movie.

It’s a soundscape.

Tickets for early access are available now at undertone.movie.

Turn the volume up.

Then decide if you can handle what you hear.