Written and directed by breakout horror filmmaker Ian Tuason, undertone follows the host of a popular paranormal podcast who becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.
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“undertone plunges audiences into a terrifying soundscape and partnering with A24 to bring this chilling cinematic experience to Dolby Cinema allows audiences to experience every whisper, silence, and scream in Ian Tuason’s film,” said Jed Harmsen, VP & General Manager of Cinema & Group Entertainment, Dolby Laboratories. “Immersive Dolby Atmos sound will reveal greater details in each scare in this auditory horror film while the precision of the Dolby Vision picture quality provides sharper clarity in the darkness, making a suspenseful experience like no other.”
Dolby Cinema early access screenings will take place on March 9, prior to the nationwide theatrical release in other formats on March 13.
TMZ was the first to report this really tragic news yesterday.
Roger Sweet — the toy designer who created the He-Man character for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the 1980s — is suffering from dementia, and according to his wife, he’s unable to afford the necessary care.
Marlene Sweet, who has been married to Roger for nearly 40 years, launched a GoFundMe to help with the $10,200-a-month bill for Roger’s memory care facility. According to reports, he took a pretty bad fall at the age of 91, and dementia was already complicating the situation.
Anyone who has been connected to this disease or has seen it in their own family knows the pain, the tribulation, and the long wind of dementia blowing through the minds of people with Alzheimer’s. It’s very unfortunate. Very sad. And in this case, it feels even sadder because of the amount of joy his creation of He-Man brought to a few generations of people.
My husband, Roger Sweet, is the creator of HE-MAN and MASTERS of the UNIVERSE. He was a toy designer at Mattel for over 15 years. Roger designed and named the original He-Man character, and worked for years with other designers to create all the other characters and playsets that enthralled kids for so many years – and still do today!
Over the years Roger was invited to and attended multiple COMICON conventions. He always loved talking about HE-MAN and MASTERS with all the fans! I was able to accompany him to several, and it was fun to see him interacting with HE-MAN fans.
We have been married for nearly 40 years. When we got married, the designers in the HE-MAN group “built” us a plaster wedding cake, with “HE-MAN TAKES MARLENE FOR HIS BRIDE” written on the side, and HE-MAN dressed for a wedding (with his bride holding all the weapons) for the cake topper! Very clever guys!!!
Roger is now nearly 91 years old and sadly has dementia. His illness has continued to progress, and I have done all I can to take care of his needs at home. He recently went for a walk and returned much later than usual and very tired. I discovered terrible bruising on his side and much disorientation, and when asked what happened he did not recall falling and getting this injury. The doctor sent him to the ER, and after 4 hours of tests they discovered he had two brain bleeds along with the massive bruising on his side. He was admitted to the ICU where he stayed for 3 days, then 4 more days in the main hospital, sleeping most of the time and continuing to be very disoriented, along with refusing to stay put and trying to go walking about. The doctors consider him a high risk for falls and say he must use a walker, considering the dementia and brain bleeds, but he says he does not need it and continues to walk around in his confused state.
They decided he must live in a Memory care facility, where he can be monitored and safe. He is now at our chosen care facility and is settling in. He has only been there a few days and his mental decline is sadly continuing. It is devastating to see this happening. Unfortunately these care facilities are not covered by Medicare, and the cost for a patient in his condition is $10,200 a month, well above our monthly income.
So I am reaching out to all the HE-MAN fans for help with these bills. Any donation will be greatly appreciated and will ease the burden of this new expense.
Sweet’s design work helped shape an entire era of toys and animation that still resonates with fans today. The He-Man fan base is pretty strong. Perhaps they’ll step up and assist in this case because of the amount of joy this man brought into their lives.
The only thing we can do right now is hope and pray that the family finds some relief — and some peace — during what has to be an incredibly difficult time.
The concept of the Backrooms has always been really cool. For some horror fans, it’s been a very niche genre .. very eerie, very visible, very visceral, and very visual. There’s something about the quiet hum of the Backrooms that’s unsettling, yet somehow calming.
A lot of people actually use Backrooms videos to fall asleep at night, playing them endlessly on a loop on YouTube. Others just have a weird version of comfort from seeing the Backrooms because they feel like they’ve been there before. There’s something oddly familiar about those yellow walls and fluorescent lights. It taps into something subconscious.
Now that concept is heading to the big screen.
The upcoming film Backrooms is scheduled for theatrical release on May 29, 2026. It’s being released by A24 and directed by Kane Parsons, the same creator behind the viral YouTube series that helped bring the modern Backrooms mythos into mainstream horror conversation.
Parsons originally began creating the Backrooms shorts as a teenager, and yes — he was just 19 years old when he was hired to direct the feature adaptation. That alone is kind of incredible. The screenplay was written by Roberto Patino and Will Soodik, and the cast includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, and Avan Jogia.
The film reportedly centers on a therapist whose patient disappears into a mysterious dimension beyond reality and she enters that bizarre, endless space to find them.
This movie may not necessarily be a huge hit. But it definitely has its share of people who are looking forward to it. We’re hopeful that it will be a hit because we’ve always loved the concept as much as other people have too.
Plus, we’re in a new era of horror. A new era of movie-making. Just the idea that the person who created this film was 19 while this was being filmed for a 21st-century release and that’s really cool.
Before one o’clock, of course, he can’t have any champagne to celebrate a wide release. At least not legally. But we should all celebrate new directors and new people in the industry and also homages to a really cool horror genre.
Because whether you find the Backrooms terrifying or comforting… that hum is about to get a lot louder.
You know the story, the Stephen King book and movie about the main Town swallowed by a strange mist. And if you saw the movie you remember the Terrible ending. Mike Flanagan is poised and ready to remake the film and push it in a new direction.
In a series of posts on BlueSky, he said that his adaptation is going to be different from what people already saw and he’s going to go his own way. Everywhere Mike Flanagan goes we actually follow.
“The Mist is going to be great. If there wasn’t an excellent answer to why, I wouldn’t do it.” He continues in a follow-up post, “I love Darabont’s film, and there’s zero point in remaking it. Which is why I’m going in a different direction.”
He wrote further, “This isn’t a retread. The differences start page 1.”
“And FWIW, I got the same ‘but why’ comments for Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor, House of Usher, Carrie, The Exorcist, even Ouija: Origin of Evil,” Flanagan said. “Also got it for Life of Chuck. I’ve been lucky so far in my career to only take on projects I’m really excited about.”
Robert Carradine, the actor known for his roles in “Revenge of the Nerds” and “Lizzie McGuire,” has died at the age of 71.
Carradine battled with bipolar disorder for nearly two decades, which ultimately claimed his life, his family said in a statement to Deadline.
“We hope his journey can shine a light and encourage addressing the stigma that attaches to mental illness,” the Carradine family said.
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Carradine’s daughter, actress Ever Carradine, paid tribute to her father in a post on Instagram.
“My dad was a lover, not a fighter. He was all heart, and in a world so full of conflict and division, I think we can all take a page out of his book today, open our hearts and feel and share the love,” she wrote.
Days after President Trump announced that he is directing agencies to declassify files on UFOs and UAPs, reporters have asked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth whether aliens are real..
Meanwhile Steven Greer was just on Infowars for an exclusive interview about the potential disclosure..
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Steven Greer Breaks The Biggest News In His 35 Year History Of Leading The Disclosure Movement Just Days Before Trump Is Set To Release The Secret UFO / Extraterrestrial Files!
BOMBSHELL Topics Discussed Include: ‣An Active Federal Criminal Investigation Into The… pic.twitter.com/Vc7Gwq2pdw
Quite frankly we had no idea after what was unfortunately a lackluster Wednesday 2 there would be a third season..
But every Wednesday needs its day. There is some exciting news for some fans who are happy to hear that Winona Ryder is joining the cast. It’s undisclosed this time what she will be playing but the Stranger Things series has been kind to her along with the newest Beetlejuice movie.
Nevermore Academy has flung open its doors to an influx of new and suspicious characters: Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Stranger Things), Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Afternoon, The Princess Bride), Noah Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones), Oscar Morgan (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Gotham Knights), and Kennedy Moyer (Task, Roofman). Witness their stomach-churning welcome feast in the video above.
All kinds of online how are breaking out about this one. An assistant to the US District Attorney New York apparently wrote an email late 2020 that the Epstein death was being investigated as a murder. This Revelation came in the documents about Jeffrey Epstein that have been released online, and it created a firestorm amongst many when it was discovered and shared..
From the email:
“I’m an AUSA in EDNY and am working on an investigation into the death of an inmate at the Brooklyn MDC,” the email reads, written by the individual – whose name was redacted – identifying themselves as a DOJ attorney, and to a recipient whose name was also redacted.
“The [Office of the Chief Medical Examiner] told me that it signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. We were hoping to extend a similar agreement and I wanted to see if you could share the agreement (or a boilerplate version of it). I’m happy to speak over the phone if that’s easier.”
If you don’t already follow and subscribe to the Why Files, you really should. A new video put out by the channel this weekend is showcasing some cool old Art Bell Coast to Coast AM phone calls and adding some context and some more fun to them for a new generation!
The alien in the freezer.. the Mohave phone booth.. and the famous Area 51 call to Art when the show’s transmission was cut ..
The video submitted for your enjoyment:
From Alex’s description:
On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer Gather round for three campfire stories from the golden era of late-night radio, when Art Bell kept the lights on for millions of people who couldn’t sleep and couldn’t stop listening.
A psychologist in the Cascade Mountains encounters something in the woods—and brings it home. A frantic caller reaches Art Bell with a warning, and the satellite goes dark before he can finish.
A phone booth stands alone in the Mojave Desert for decades, and the calls that come through aren’t always from strangers. These aren’t ghost stories passed around a fire.
They’re documented, recorded, and still unresolved. Pull up a chair. The night is long, and some questions don’t have clean answers.
Don’t Come Upstairs has been showing up across a lot of social media feeds lately. Whether that exposure has been paid for by the documentary’s marketing team or is happening organically isn’t entirely clear, but the film itself has been made to look compelling and very watchable.
Don’t Come Upstairs is a 2025 documentary directed by Mike Lobel and commissioned by CBC in Canada. The film runs just under an hour and has been made available through CBC Gem, the network’s streaming platform. At the time of writing, availability appears to be primarily in Canada, though clips and promotional material have circulated online, contributing to its recent visibility around the planet…
While it is categorized as a documentary, an unsettling tone is said to linger beneath the surface. The title alone suggests tension, and from the footage that has been shared publicly, an atmosphere of unease appears to have been intentionally crafted. The subject matter seems to blur genre lines, protruding slightly into psychological territory, family drama, and even something adjacent to true-life thriller.
With a blizzard reportedly on the horizon across parts of the East Coast, at least at the time this post is being written, a window of quiet viewing time may soon be available. Films like this tend to benefit from that kind of stillness.
So perhaps it should be watched collectively– but don’t be deceived by the links the “full movie” on YouTube.. As mentioned before.. Non Canadians may have a hard time finding this one.
You will need a VPN..
It’s a LOT to do for a documentary but maybe worth it?
