TUBI ORIGINAL: Black Mold (2023)

Brooke Konrad (Agnes Albright) and Tanner Behlma (Andrew Bailes) are photographers who love to explore abandoned houses. It’s based on the feelings that director and writer John Pata had when he was inside a destroyed house.

During one of their exploratory photo sessions, they’re trapped by bad weather in an industrial structure where an unhoused man (Jeremy Holm) is also hiding out. He resembles Brooke’s deceased father, which starts to unlock past memories as that man committed suicide in front of her.

To make things even worse — can they get worse? — the entire building is filled with black mold that has hallucinogenic side effects. Which means by the end, no one knows what is real, what is memory and what is a strange homeless man raving about everyone being against him.

This is shot in some real abandoned structures and if I didn’t think so at the beginning of this movie, I am completely never going in a house or industrial space that’s been abandoned like the ones in this movie. They’re terrifying already and now that I have to worry about black mold making me crazy — well, more insane — I’m going to think about this all of the time.

The three leads are all really good in this and it feels pretty real, even when the mania overtakes them all.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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