This starts in a cemetery, where Joanna (Cassidey Fralin) visits the grave of her mother and looks at an article about her father Michael Lawrence (Blue Kimble), a real estate millionaire, marrying Whitney (Annie Ilonzeh), a self-made cosmetics company owner. It also appears that she may have an old woman knocked out in the back seat of a car.

Cassandra’s friends Cass and Tawanda are worried that they got married too quickly. She reminds them that she made him sign a pre-nup. That’s when Joanna arrives in the middle of a party. She tells her father that she has nowhere to stay and that her Granny Linda died. That would be the dead or knocked out woman seen in the cemetery. But now, she gets to meet her stepbrothers Eric, Brian and their friend Dante and start to bond with her new family.

Yet all is not well literally from the first morning that they are all together. Whitney explained how important her mother’s urn was to her and it’s broken moments later, leaving ash all over the floor.

That’s when Michael explains that when his wife died in a drunk driving accident, he abandoned his daughter to start drinking. He lost Joanna to Granny Linda and thinks that this is a chance to be the father he wasn’t then.

While all this family change is happening, Whitney is at Walmart, selling her line to get national distribution. She brings models to test her makeup on. However, in the iddle of her successful presentation, the girls faces start to burn, ruining her presentation.

After that. Whitney and Joanna go on a girl’s day and Whitney ends up having a strange dizzy spell. Maybe that’s because we just saw Joanna look at her prescriptions and then a gloved hand — I do believe that these movies that Chris Stokes and Marques Houston make are urban giallo — switch out the pills.

As this picks up speed, Joanna lets Whitney know that she’s the one who put lye into the makeup, she tries to pill up Eric and throw him off the roof and kills Dante after he finds her diary. But then one of Whitney’s sister Cass’ husband Terrence does a background check and finds out that Joanna Lawrence is really Maggie Dillon. This causes Whitney to call Michael and ask him what’s happening. He claims that her grandparents changed her name. It turns out that Michael dated a woman named Heather who he thought would fix things but it only made it worse, as she began to abuse his daughter. When Heather got out of jail, her name was changed to protect her. But now Michael is out of the house on vacation and everyone is alone with Joanna. Michael kind of blames everyone and takes his daughter’s side.

Of course, it’s time for more drugging, as Joanna reacts badly to Whitney calling her Maggie. She also comes into Brian’s room and kisses him. Moments later, he tells his mother that she needs to be nicer to Whitney, but when he’s in her room, it seems like she’s almost dead. They take her to the hospital and doctors think that she tried to kill herself.

Cassandra takes the boys as Whitney tells her that she thinks that Joanna is trying to kill them. They find Dante’s body in the same park that she once took the boys to and everyone is convinced that she killed him. Cassandra tries to prove that and gets killed herself after a brutal battle.

There’s a great twist though and that’s all you’ll get out of me. I really loved this one and have been waiting for these guys to bring it like they did here.

I was excited as soon as I saw that this was directed by Chris Stokes, who wrote the story with Marques Houston. I’ve called Chris the king of Tubi, because he’s made The Stepmother, Vicious Affair, Picture Me Dead, The Assistant and I Hate You to Death for the channel and every one of them has some amazing moments of lunacy. This is yet another installment in their near monthly movie releases. I hope they keep on making these for decades.

I wonder: Is this movie sponsored by Walmart? There’s a camo Yellowstone hat in Brian’s bedroom, a Misfits shirt that Whitney wears and a mention of the company. What a marketing strategy seemingly to reach me, someone who watches every Tubi Original.

You can watch this on Tubi.