I was starting to get worried. There hadn’t been a new Chris Stokes movie on Tubi for a long time and I wondered, has the well gone dry? I am happy to tell you that The Killing Cove is here and it’s his best one to date. It has the Tubi Movie Recommendations & Reviews Facebook group all over the place- angry, confused, fired up, loving it- and such a mess of emotions.

Sisters Sarah (Precious Way) and Kristen Donald (Madison Epps) have just moved to town with their college professor father, Charles (Tremayne Norris). The first night there, a college party gets out of hand, one of them gets roofied by a jock named Jeffrey  (Bishop Freeman) and now, they want to find out how to get justice. Or revenge. But soon, clouds of smoke start to appear on campus, sending their friends to their deaths, like something out of a krimi movie. Or a giallo! Yes, this is more Black Giallo from Stokes! I’m loving it!

Who could it be with all these red herrings? Friendly guy, lab-loving Wayne (Aaron Bryce Sheats)? Charles trying to get revenge on the girls for their outing him and his date raping ways? Or is it much, much deeper?

This is my 25th Chris Stokes movie, and man, his Tubi work keeps getting better. It’s as if someone who only saw I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream made giallo and krimi without knowing that those essences are inside the DNA of those films, the beating hearts that flow the blood through those filones. They don’t need to know where they come from; they only need to know that they are. Films that have moments where women ingest green gas that makes them bang their heads into walls until they’re dead, allowing a masked villain to get away with no trace. It’s no different than an Edgar Wallace novel, even if it has no idea who that is. The magic of film and of Tubi is that it can unite cultures that would never speak to one another to make something that entertains us.

You can watch this on Tubi.