TUBI ORIGINAL: Chapel (2024)

Directed by Courtney Paige, who wrote the script with J.R. Reher, Chapel starts with Cohen Black (Jeremy Sumpter) waking up in a hospital, unsure of who he is, where he’s been and why a fisherman found him nearly drowned five months ago. He’s helped by a nurse named Sofia Bloome (Pardis Saremi) to learn who he really is and what the name Ethan Tucker means.

Filmed in Utah, this movie is referred to as a country crime thriller. Once Cohen wakes up, he becomes a suspect in a serial murder case and followed by Detective Wyatt. He also has a series of memories that flood back in which he is surrounded by a table of women, which includes Grace Veum (Taryn Manning).

Whatever the past is, Cohen is drawn to a rundown motel where he meets 10 o’Clock Jack (Lochlyn Munro) and despite his relationship with Sofia, he falls for a girl named Misha (Carol Anne Watts). Then he starts to forget attacking — and even killing — women and the police close in, with Wyatt telling him that Sofia can no longer save him. And what’s the story with the envelope that Grace gave to Sofia? And is this whole thing a cover version of Identity by way of Momento on a Tubi budget?

Regardless, it starts strong and is shot pretty well, which is more than you can say for most streaming movies, right?

You can watch this on Tubi.

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