EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie originally appeared on the site on October 5, 2021 as part of FantasticFest. It’s now available in select theaters and will be available on demand July 12 from Epic Pictures.

Leynilögga means Secret Log in Islandic, as far as Google tells me, which is a funny joke if true, as this film is all about a tough cop in denial of his own sexual orientation who falls in love with his new partner.

Directed by Hannes Þór Halldórsson, the goalie for Iceland’s national soccer team, it’s all about criminal mastermind Rikki Ferrari (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson), who was once a model before being disfigured. Now, he’s gone full Joker and is on a murder spree that can only be stopped by buddy cop — odd couple buddy cop at that — duo Bussi and Hörđur. Bussi is the tough guy who can barely keep his apartment clean and his face shaved, while Hörđur is a male model cop. Yet the longer they’re together, Hörđur’s looks and Bussi’s repressed homosexuality soon turn their partnership into more than a work relationship. And Rikki starts to blackmail them once he learns their cop secret.

Aren’t all buddy cop movies romcoms when you really get down to it? Instead of all that macho posturing and showing off guns, didn’t you ever wonder if they really just wanted to, well, show off their guns in private? I’ve never seen a coming out in the middle of a brutal gunfight, but hey — that’s the kind of ballistic buffoonery that Cop Secret has in store.

And if the end feels very Nolan Batman, well, director of photography Elli Cassata was a cameraman on Batman Begins.

Based on the H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dreams in the Witch House and shot in Indiana’s haunted Hannah House, H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House is about graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn) hiding in the rat-infested attic of a potentially haunted house to stay away from her abusive boyfriend. She’s also into alternate dimensions, which means that before this movie is over, she’ll scissor with one of the female inhabitants of the house. I mean, she’ll also unlock the gateway to the 4th dimension, a world of evil entities and nightmares.

The movie gets some of Lovecraft’s story in there: the last name of the protagonist is Gilman, Miskatonic University is where she attends class, there’s an attic apartment, it has strange dimensions and geometry plays into the room;s ability to travel to other realities.

Directed by Bobby Easley and written by Ken Wallace, this movie uses its low budget effectively and has moments of genuine hallucinatory quality. Were it shot on film, I might be convinced it came not from our time, which is the best compliment I can give.

H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House is now available on Digital, DVD and On Demand. You can learn more on the official Facebook page.

It’s a total accident that brings Alicia (Crystal-Lee Naomi) into the world of Morgan (Jennifer Freeman), a successful entrepreneur on her way to a retreat where she’s supposed to detox from technology for an entire month. Morgan leaves her keys in the car and Alicia is tempted to live the rich woman’s life for a day. Then a week. And then the trouble starts.

After several days, Morgan’s housekeeper Daya Perez (Suzanne Salhaney) and groundskeeper Charlie (Kareem Lewis) arrive and question who Alicia is. She tells her that she’s the house sitter, which they believe. But after she starts wearing Morgan’s clothes and running up her credit cards, Daya argues with Alicia and ends up going head first into a rock, dying instantly.

After throwing Daya into a river, Alicia takes this whole single black female thing way too far by convincing Morgan’s man Xander (Ali Amin Carter) that he’s been dumped. They hook up, but it’s a small victory as soon, Morgan is back.

Is Alicia ready to go back to basically being homeless? Well, she wouldn’t be in a Tubi movie if she were. She’s the kind of Lifetime — err, Tubi — villainess who may not have the best motivations, but goes extra bonkers and shrugs off corkscrew impalement.

Directly by Courtney Miller (A Stone Cold Christmas) and written by Daniel Whidden, this movie has a cast of people who are all losing it every single moment, as I demand from films such as this. What can we learn from it? Always hold on to your keys, don’t take a rideshare and stay away from cults that hold on to your tech.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Cecilia (Mariana Anghileri) has had a car accident — colliding with Enrique (Gerardo Romano) who is delivering a mysterious package — and even three days afterward, she finds herself wandering a lonely road seeking her son, who disappeared in the aftermath. She soon learns that she’s being accused of kidnapping her child and another accident that evening by her ex-husband Fernando (Diego Cremonesi) and Inspector Ventura (Osvaldo Santoro). Meanwhile, Dr. Hernán (Lautaro Delgado) tries to use hypnosis to help her remember exactly what happened that night.

Coming from Argentina — the home of films like Terrified and The Curious Dr. Humpp — and filmmaker Daniel de la Vega, this film is full of moody dread and palpable loss. Helping it along the way are the score by Luciano Onetti (who is part of the Onetti Brothers who made Francesca and Abrakadabra) as well as cinematographer Mariano Suárez’s (Daemonium: Soldier of the Underworld) eye guiding the camera.

As Cecelia tries to piece together the last three days, Enrique the priest who she was in the accident with is still looking for the ancient Catholic relic that was lost in the wreckage and will do anything to get it back.

It starts off slow, but stick with it. There’s something here, even if it isn’t perfect. Daniel de la Vega seems like someone who is going to keep putting out interesting horror, so I’ll keep watching his film.

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