April 10, 2026 • 8 mins
Undertone
A podcast host covering spooky content moves in to care for her dying mother. When sent recordings of a pregnant couple's paranormal encounters, she discovers their story parallels hers, each tape pushing her toward madness.
The President’s Cake
As people in Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year-old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the president's birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity, she sets out on a journey through the big city in search of eggs, flour and sugar.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at b that night.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Talk to you, Oh Cube walks ride through and shoes
come rolled through My own.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And I sell my Ohloom.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Two comes from the storm. Let's leve issues. Playing Coachella
and Coacheller's this weekend. Some big names of course. I
mean they're always big names of Coachella. It's kind of
what defines Coachella. Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber playing Coachella this weekend.
Twenty three minutes to ten. Francisca Redkin, our film reviewer,
(00:53):
is here with us this morning. Good morning, Good morning.
We have a couple of rather different films this morning,
so both of them are showing in cinemas. Today could
be a good day to go along, hopefully before the
worst of the storm is impacting us. So let's take
a little bit of a listen. First, up to Undertone.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Welcome to the Undertone podcast, where we talk about all
things creepy.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm your and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
House skeptic Evie Babbage, and my believer co host says
he has a real tree for us. Today, we're listening
to ten sterious audio recordings from an anonymous email.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Are you implying there is head and messages in it?
Let me play it back in reverse, don't dam Let's
just catch the chase.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
This one isn't for you, Jack. A horror film isn't
something that you rush along. No, But both both the
films that I'm talking about today are from two new directors.
These are their featured debuts, and Undertone is really interesting.
A guy called Entoism has directed this. It is has
It's an indie horror film. It's from the A twenty
(02:00):
four studios that likes to give us kind of unique,
ambitious films, and this one was made on a budget.
But he's done a really good job of shooting this film,
which is essentially shot in one location with one on
screen actor. So the character we heard there, Ev is
played by Nina Kitty and she is a podcaster on
(02:22):
a popular paranormal podcast. She has moved back home to
nurse her dying mother, who is pretty much entirely comatoseed
the whole film, so an important part, but not a
big specting part. Her partner in the podcast is Jason
played by Adam DeMarco, and he's living somewhere else, so
(02:44):
they sort of catch up in the middle of the
night to record these podcasts, and we only ever see
his voice come through online. They just connect online and
they have parts they play on the podcast as they
say they were saying, Okay, let's get back into character,
and he's the believer and she's the skip. Now when
they're recording this podcast, he has been sent a series
of audio files and they listen to them and try
(03:07):
and sort of decipher what's happening. And these files were
recorded by a couple called Mike and Jessa, and Mike's
recording Jessa because she sleep talks, but what he captures
is pretty creepy and haunting, and Jessa likes to sing
children's nursery rhymes as children's Jason Jason Yeah and wait,
(03:30):
no way, Jason works out. If you play them backwards,
you'll find there are some violent hidden messages, and as
the film goes on, there is some concern that they've
unleashed a demon. What is so this might sound quite familiar,
sort of quite a normal kind of horror set up,
but you know, they've just shot this really well. It's
all about space and sound, so the house makes it
(03:53):
the film feel quite claustrophobic. But the director is never
just taking a normal angle. There's always a shadow in
the background and you're waiting for something to appear, or
here's the angles they choose show you something else in
the house that you're going, what should I be paying
attention to? What's going to happen here? He just creates
this incredible tension through the angles that he chooses to
(04:15):
shoot this film. And then there's the sound. Obviously, being
a podcaster, a lot of this is about the sound
and things. But the music he uses and the way
he uses the sound on things or it's good, it's
pretty impressive. I'm going to be honest, it was a
little unsatisfying because it sort of ended and I was like,
(04:35):
hang on what Okay, hang on what's happened? And you
can interpret it your own way. And I like a
director who isn't afraid to kind of leave you a
little bit, you know, on the edge of your seat
scratching your head, going what. But I really I think
this is pretty classy and I'm really interested to see
what he does next. Oh great with a bigger budget.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, yeah, okay, so that's undertone, Like you say, it
might be a bit scary for me. I just don't
like feeling anxious unnecessary. But a couple of points. First
of all, I do think that sound is the key
to a good horror film.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I think the audio, yeah, but not the obvious sound,
like there's a lot of no silence that you go, okay,
there's a jump right coming as a jump. They're setting
me up for it, tearing through your fingers. Actually, the
most fun I had at that film was there were
a couple of girls sitting along and ask with and
they were just laughing, giggling their way through the whole
thing to get rid of all the tension. And I
love that. I always love watching them watch the film.
(05:28):
I love the film.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And second of all, just horror is going through such
a moment right now, such moment it has been for
a while.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now, and you know they're making money off them. And
here's another example. You can create a pretty clever, relatively
cheap film. Cross your fingers. I hope it becomes sort of,
you know, becomes a bit of a cult. And of
course we've seeing them recognize now the oscars. There's sort
of you know, they've grown up and being fully accepted
to the you know the big filmmakers.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We've got Robert England aka Free Krueger on this morning
as our ask him a little bit about that, right,
So that is undertone that showing in cinemas. Also showing
in cinema is something completely different the President's cake.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So I just loved this. This is a film from
a director Hassan Hadi. He is an Iraqi filmmaker. He
took this film to the Sundance Lab and there was
a lot of interest in it. He was actually somebody
people were actually offering to fully fund this film, but
it could not on the condition that it was not
shot in Iraq, and he turned them down and he
got some really good, big name sort of producers from
(06:32):
Hollywood behind them, and he went back to Iraq and
he managed to shoot this film. And I'm so grateful
he did, because this is a film that needs to
be seen within the community and the people and everything.
It's what makes this film. So the year is nineteen ninety,
the place is sort of descending into poverty. There's no
(06:53):
medicine basically because of the really strict ing sanctions which
have been put in place. But despite all this, Sadam
Hussein has required all citizens to celebrate his birthday. And
at a local school there is this very threatening form
soldier turned teacher and he makes the kids draw lots
to work out. He'll bring the juice and the fruit
for the celebration, and then one child gets the honor
(07:13):
of bringing a cake and it falls to this nine
year old girl, Lemea, and she basically lives in a
hut in the southern Marshes with her grandmother baby, and
they are poor and struggling and they really cannot make
ends meet. Let alone find that these ingredients and make
this cake, and we follow her golf on this journey.
It's presented in a documentary style, natural lighting, incredibly authentic
(07:35):
performances by pretty much an inexperienced class. They're all non actors,
And I just got taken into a place in a time,
and I was completely transported by this story and the
performances are absolutely fantastic. I just thought this was a
wonderful art house film, and I'm just so delighted that
he made it in his homeland, in the environment and
(07:57):
communities that he is telling us about and sharing their
experiences of living under a dictator.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh that's so good. Yeah, I've sent the trailer and
it does look really really special. So that's President's Cake
that showing in cinemas now. Francesca's first film, the horror,
is called Undertone, and all of the details for both
of those movies will be up at Newstalk, SHDB, dot co,
dot MZ.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talk SEDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at b that night.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Talk to you, Oh Cube walks ride through and shoes
come rolled through My own.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And I sell my Ohloom.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Two comes from the storm. Let's leve issues. Playing Coachella
and Coacheller's this weekend. Some big names of course. I
mean they're always big names of Coachella. It's kind of
what defines Coachella. Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber playing Coachella this weekend.
Twenty three minutes to ten. Francisca Redkin, our film reviewer,
(00:53):
is here with us this morning. Good morning, Good morning.
We have a couple of rather different films this morning,
so both of them are showing in cinemas. Today could
be a good day to go along, hopefully before the
worst of the storm is impacting us. So let's take
a little bit of a listen. First, up to Undertone.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Welcome to the Undertone podcast, where we talk about all
things creepy.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm your and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
House skeptic Evie Babbage, and my believer co host says
he has a real tree for us. Today, we're listening
to ten sterious audio recordings from an anonymous email.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Are you implying there is head and messages in it?
Let me play it back in reverse, don't dam Let's
just catch the chase.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
This one isn't for you, Jack. A horror film isn't
something that you rush along. No, But both both the
films that I'm talking about today are from two new directors.
These are their featured debuts, and Undertone is really interesting.
A guy called Entoism has directed this. It is has
It's an indie horror film. It's from the A twenty
(02:00):
four studios that likes to give us kind of unique,
ambitious films, and this one was made on a budget.
But he's done a really good job of shooting this film,
which is essentially shot in one location with one on
screen actor. So the character we heard there, Ev is
played by Nina Kitty and she is a podcaster on
(02:22):
a popular paranormal podcast. She has moved back home to
nurse her dying mother, who is pretty much entirely comatoseed
the whole film, so an important part, but not a
big specting part. Her partner in the podcast is Jason
played by Adam DeMarco, and he's living somewhere else, so
(02:44):
they sort of catch up in the middle of the
night to record these podcasts, and we only ever see
his voice come through online. They just connect online and
they have parts they play on the podcast as they
say they were saying, Okay, let's get back into character,
and he's the believer and she's the skip. Now when
they're recording this podcast, he has been sent a series
of audio files and they listen to them and try
(03:07):
and sort of decipher what's happening. And these files were
recorded by a couple called Mike and Jessa, and Mike's
recording Jessa because she sleep talks, but what he captures
is pretty creepy and haunting, and Jessa likes to sing
children's nursery rhymes as children's Jason Jason Yeah and wait,
(03:30):
no way, Jason works out. If you play them backwards,
you'll find there are some violent hidden messages, and as
the film goes on, there is some concern that they've
unleashed a demon. What is so this might sound quite familiar,
sort of quite a normal kind of horror set up,
but you know, they've just shot this really well. It's
all about space and sound, so the house makes it
(03:53):
the film feel quite claustrophobic. But the director is never
just taking a normal angle. There's always a shadow in
the background and you're waiting for something to appear, or
here's the angles they choose show you something else in
the house that you're going, what should I be paying
attention to? What's going to happen here? He just creates
this incredible tension through the angles that he chooses to
(04:15):
shoot this film. And then there's the sound. Obviously, being
a podcaster, a lot of this is about the sound
and things. But the music he uses and the way
he uses the sound on things or it's good, it's
pretty impressive. I'm going to be honest, it was a
little unsatisfying because it sort of ended and I was like,
(04:35):
hang on what Okay, hang on what's happened? And you
can interpret it your own way. And I like a
director who isn't afraid to kind of leave you a
little bit, you know, on the edge of your seat
scratching your head, going what. But I really I think
this is pretty classy and I'm really interested to see
what he does next. Oh great with a bigger budget.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, yeah, okay, so that's undertone, Like you say, it
might be a bit scary for me. I just don't
like feeling anxious unnecessary. But a couple of points. First
of all, I do think that sound is the key
to a good horror film.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I think the audio, yeah, but not the obvious sound,
like there's a lot of no silence that you go, okay,
there's a jump right coming as a jump. They're setting
me up for it, tearing through your fingers. Actually, the
most fun I had at that film was there were
a couple of girls sitting along and ask with and
they were just laughing, giggling their way through the whole
thing to get rid of all the tension. And I
love that. I always love watching them watch the film.
(05:28):
I love the film.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And second of all, just horror is going through such
a moment right now, such moment it has been for
a while.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now, and you know they're making money off them. And
here's another example. You can create a pretty clever, relatively
cheap film. Cross your fingers. I hope it becomes sort of,
you know, becomes a bit of a cult. And of
course we've seeing them recognize now the oscars. There's sort
of you know, they've grown up and being fully accepted
to the you know the big filmmakers.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We've got Robert England aka Free Krueger on this morning
as our ask him a little bit about that, right,
So that is undertone that showing in cinemas. Also showing
in cinema is something completely different the President's cake.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So I just loved this. This is a film from
a director Hassan Hadi. He is an Iraqi filmmaker. He
took this film to the Sundance Lab and there was
a lot of interest in it. He was actually somebody
people were actually offering to fully fund this film, but
it could not on the condition that it was not
shot in Iraq, and he turned them down and he
got some really good, big name sort of producers from
(06:32):
Hollywood behind them, and he went back to Iraq and
he managed to shoot this film. And I'm so grateful
he did, because this is a film that needs to
be seen within the community and the people and everything.
It's what makes this film. So the year is nineteen ninety,
the place is sort of descending into poverty. There's no
(06:53):
medicine basically because of the really strict ing sanctions which
have been put in place. But despite all this, Sadam
Hussein has required all citizens to celebrate his birthday. And
at a local school there is this very threatening form
soldier turned teacher and he makes the kids draw lots
to work out. He'll bring the juice and the fruit
for the celebration, and then one child gets the honor
(07:13):
of bringing a cake and it falls to this nine
year old girl, Lemea, and she basically lives in a
hut in the southern Marshes with her grandmother baby, and
they are poor and struggling and they really cannot make
ends meet. Let alone find that these ingredients and make
this cake, and we follow her golf on this journey.
It's presented in a documentary style, natural lighting, incredibly authentic
(07:35):
performances by pretty much an inexperienced class. They're all non actors,
And I just got taken into a place in a time,
and I was completely transported by this story and the
performances are absolutely fantastic. I just thought this was a
wonderful art house film, and I'm just so delighted that
he made it in his homeland, in the environment and
(07:57):
communities that he is telling us about and sharing their
experiences of living under a dictator.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh that's so good. Yeah, I've sent the trailer and
it does look really really special. So that's President's Cake
that showing in cinemas now. Francesca's first film, the horror,
is called Undertone, and all of the details for both
of those movies will be up at Newstalk, SHDB, dot co,
dot MZ.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talk SEDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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