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What is the plot?

What is the ending?

Evy's recordings lead her into a final collapse of fear and guilt in the house with her dying mother. The ending cuts off in chaos, with screaming, a struggle, and the sound of someone falling down the stairs, while the film leaves whether Evy and her mother survive unresolved.

Evy Babic is living at home, caring for her terminally ill, mostly silent mother while she and Justin run their paranormal podcast, The Undertone. When Justin brings them recordings sent by a listener, the files appear to document a pregnant couple hearing strange sounds and becoming increasingly frightened. As the podcast plays the recordings over several sessions, Evy learns she is pregnant herself, and the same kind of unsettling activity begins around her own home. The film identifies the force behind the recordings as Abyzou, a female demon associated with harming pregnant women and infants. By the time the final recording is played, the situation has turned into a direct threat inside Evy's house.

In the last stretch, the house is filled with signs of the haunting, including crayon drawings of Abyzou and bloodied infants on the walls. Evy goes upstairs and finds her mother standing in the bathroom. Evy screams for her to stop, and the scene becomes violent and confused. The film then cuts to black, and the only clear ending sounds are screams, Evy calling out to "Mama," and a struggle that ends with at least one person falling down the stairs. The fate of Evy is left unknown on-screen, but the final audio strongly suggests she is in immediate danger; her mother is already dead before this last confrontation, according to the film's reported plot, but whether her body remains present in the final struggle or whether the mother is somehow manifesting again is not definitively shown.

Justin's fate is not shown in the ending material provided, and the film's final events focus almost entirely on Evy and her mother. The unborn baby's fate is also not confirmed, though the story has already tied the pregnancy to Abyzou's influence and to Evy's mounting fear.

Who dies?

Yes. The film shows or strongly indicates the deaths of three characters, though one of them is left somewhat ambiguous in the final scene.

  • Jessa: Jessa and her husband Mike are described as being found dead in their home after a caller reports their bodies. The circumstances are that they were discovered with plastic bags over their heads and crayon drawings of babies covering the walls, and the autopsy reportedly showed that Jessa was pregnant when she died.

  • Mike: Mike is also said to have died in the same incident as Jessa. The reported circumstances are the same: both were found dead in their home with plastic bags over their heads and baby drawings on the walls, suggesting a murder-suicide, ritualized killing, or supernatural involvement, but the film does not fully confirm the exact mechanism.

  • Mama / Evy's mother: Evy explicitly says her mother has died, and the hospice context makes this unsurprising because she is already described as terminally ill and in the last days of life. The film does not clearly show a medical cause of death; instead, Evy believes her own neglect and refusal to pray for her may have contributed, and the final audio suggests something sinister may also be involved.

  • The infant in Abby's call: A final caller, Abby, is heard begging for help with her crying baby and then murdering the infant despite Evy and Justin pleading with her not to. The death is direct and on-screen only as audio; the infant is killed by Abby, apparently by violence off-screen after the call escalates.

  • Evy: Evy's death is not definitively shown, but it is strongly implied in the ending. The final sequence cuts to black after screaming, a struggle, and the sound of someone falling down the stairs, and some explanations interpret this as Evy dying, possibly along with her unborn child, though the film leaves it ambiguous.

If you want, I can also separate these into "confirmed deaths" versus "implied deaths only."

Is there a post-credit scene?

No. According to multiple after-credits reports, The Undertone has no post-credit or mid-credit scene, so there is nothing extra to stay for after the film ends.

The credits appear to roll straight through, with the only notable content being the standard end credits and memorial/dedication text listed by one credits guide, not an extra scene.

Is this family friendly?