TUBI ORIGINAL: An Unusual Suspect (2025)

Directed and written by Booker T. Mattison (Twisted Marriage Therapist), this is the tale of the impossibly named Viola January (Christie Leverette). Just out of law school and in a new job, she’s also working a case pro bono to free Will (Derrick J. Smith), a man she believes was wrongly accused of kidnapping a young woman. But the truth is more complicated, and now, the real criminal is after her.

I should have gone to law school, I think, after seeing this. Viola has no idea who the killer is, but somehow gets in the middle of this mess, dragging the police into things and screaming so much — so many screams — until we have numerous people drawing guns, cops in shadowed rooms with guns out and somehow, Viola gets to follow the cops in there.

If I saw this as a kid, the end scene of the dude hiding in the house’s air ducts would have given me nightmares. Also, a shower scene without nudity is bad directing. Also also: That headshot at the end was great.

You can watch this on Tubi.