TUBI ORIGINAL: Blood, Beach, Betrayal (2024)

“At a high end beach club, a female college lifeguard gets caught up in a secret affair with a wealthy housewife.”

Yeah, but there’s also a Beachwaters.com website, a giallo-style hidden killer, a Sliver love of filming people and a movie-ending fashion show that is as realistic as the Oscars from The Howling III.

Loved it.

Abby (Natalee Linez) is the new lifeguard, one of the few women surrounded by men, but taken in as just one of the guys as she’s a lesbian. Soon, she falls for Imani (Gina Vitori), the rich woman who has hired her to teach her how to swim, but come on, they swim for all of a minute before they’re making out, giving you flashbacks to the days when video stores had that adult but not porn section that you still had to be 18 to rent from but that you could maybe get away with if your significant other didn’t want you embarrassing them by walking out of the porn room curtain in front of everyone in town.

Every young lifeguard is being filmed as they act like, well, young people at a high end beach resort and rack up body counts before being part of this movie’s body count. They’re also all orphans with no next of kin, which means that when the rich and famous want to kill them, they have no one stopping them, investigating their crimes or wondering why the people who should save lives are all dying. Even the one cop in town is in on it.

Directed by Niki Koss and written by Mary Risk, this moves along fast enough and has a nice resolution. I’m always pleased that Tubi continues to be the mom and pop video store of today. And you don’t even have to worry about anyone seeing you rent a slightly dirty film.

You can watch this on Tubi.