From the Urban Dictionary: Trappin: The act of dealing or selling illegal drugs for the accumulation of wealth. Drug dealers often partake in “Trappin.” The word originates from Atlanta. “I was trappin’ on the corner when the 5o rolled up” or “He is trappin’ at the party and making a killing.”

Midnight Black is an Atlanta record producer who has worked with Young Jeezy, 8Ball & MJG, Greg Street and others. He wrote and did the music for this.

Director and co-writer Lisa Maydwell also wrote Haunted Trail, a movie that was on the site a few weeks ago.

As for the story, it’s about Granny Mae (Rita Kendall), who is about to lose her house to the bank, but her grandchildren 808 (Kadar Brown) and TR (Brian Loving) work to use their trappin’ skills to save it. There’s also a sex worker named Pretty Peach (Phyllis “Tank” Allen) who is scammed men out of money, a dude named Mooshie who is running all sorts of scams when he isn’t getting the weird curl in the middle of his heap worked at in the barbershop, a Trap News TV crew with a British girl (Erica “Erica Duchess” Stinchomb) reporting on the goings on and actors named Mr. Fireball, Mr. Elmo, Crum.com and Trap Boi Hot who are all basically yelling at the camera.

Everything that can get called trap in this movie is. Like, there’s trap milk. There’s also an amazing scene when the tax bill comes in and it’s just a piece of paper that has a handwritten note. “Tax bill. $10,000.”

You know how people looked down on Cheech & Chong and then ICP made movies and people saw what Cheech & Chong did as high art? This is kind of like the same thing. That said, everyone has high energy and really believes in what they are doing, even if it’s stuff like a guy named Drum getting made fun of at a barbershop and then screwed over by a girl and then butt naked on the news.

There’s a Bad Santa but I have no idea what Christmas has to do with this other than the fact that the grandmother is losing her home at the worst time of the year. This is not the worst Tubi Christmas movie that I have watched which really says something.

As this movie would say, “Merry Trapmas.”

You can watch this on Tubi.

Christina Chance (Tori Anderson) is trying to get Love Handles to make her the ambassador for their new line of products through her web show. They’ll give her the deal if she gets two million views on her Christmas Eve livestream. Except her family and image are all fake.

She’s divorced and her web husband Steve (Bradley Husband) is really dating her mom Wanda (Lisa Langlois, Class of 1984). Her dad Rick (Tim Progosh) isn’t married to her anymore, either. Her daughter Kaylee (Habree Larratt) hates the show and thinks it’s why her dad left. At least her son Hugo (Declan Cassidy) is into it.

The problem is that Love Handles employee Devon (Mykee Selkin) shows up at the wrong time and finds out the secret life of Christina. Yet the show — thanks to everyone’s hard work — goes well. But they don’t get the numbers they need, Christina doesn’t get the deal and Devon gets fired. Luckily, they hired such a great Santa (Nick Allan) that he actually is Santa, who gives them all another chance. Actually, so many chances until they finally just don’t even do the show. Devon films their entire day of just being a family and uploads it, which upsets our influencer protagonist, but when she learns that that’s what got her all the subscribers, all is forgiven and reality gets normal.

Director Stefan Brogren also made Twisted Neighbor and Obsessed to Death for Tubi. The movie was written by Brian Graves and Jacob Michael Keller.

You can watch this on Tubi.

FBI Agent Harper Winslow (Denyce Lawton) and Detective Carly Lopez (Teresa Castillo) are working together over the holidays to catch an art thief who dresses like Santa, giving this movie its name. Harper has also felt sparks with a man named Chris North (Donnell Turner) who — surprise, it’s a Tubi Original — is also the thief. How does this all work out?

Harper and Carly have to get over their initial distrust of one another and find the art, which leads them to Quinn Carlyle (Kate Watson) and Alex Sykes (Brian Ames). Now, the weird thing is that our FBI protagonist so quickly doesn’t care at all that she’s dating the very same man that she’s been tracking for a year. I guess North is so good looking that you end up forgiving, I guess. Maybe because it’s Christmas?

Director Kristin Fairweather and writers Kathryn Dow and John Forgetta have made a movie that honestly won’t offend anyone and has a little bit of detective procedural mixed with romance and some holiday spirit. They also used plenty of soap opera actors who are quite adept and getting into their roles and being likeable.

You can watch this on Tubi.

I’m trying to put these movies in order before I get into this. The Bigfoot and Illuminati universe would be in this order:

• Bigfoot vs. The Illuminati
• Trump vs. The Illuminati
• Bigfoot vs. Megalodon
• Tickles the Clown
• Bigfoot vs. Krampus
• Van Helsing
• Xterminator and the AI Apocalypse
• Bigfoot Goes to Hell
• Bigfoot vs. Krampus 2

If you’ve been watching these movies, you know that the clone of Van Helsing lives in space with Bigfoot, Dr. Jekyll and Princess Kali. After Bigfoot vs. Megalodon, the Illuminati has been destroyed. Now, another race of aliens, the Atlantians, has called for help as they are being destroyed by a single fighter who ends up being Krampus.

Haven’t seen any of these movies? They’re directed and written by BC Fourteen and look a lot like cut scenes from video games, yet have a very interesting sense of humor and enough dirty words to keep this from being something for young children. They’re around an hour each and the story continues in each movie.

The attack of Krampus brings Aleister Crawley, General Stalin and the Illuminati out of wherever they’ve been hiding and attacking the allied forces. For some reason, Krampus looks like Immortan Joe and you know, the look is an improvement.

I also kind of adore that this movie randomly uses stock footage because you know Bruno Mattei had 5G, he’d have done the same thing.

And then Jack Pumpkinhead — yes, pretty much Jack Skellington — shows up. A Terminator, too. This movie just keeps adding characters and you know, I’m in the mood for all of it and more. This feels like the kind of movie kids really good at editing wrestlers on WWE 2k24 would make. Hell soon has an entire army of monsters and by the end, Krampus and Lucifer have united to destroy what’s left of humanity with only Bigfoot left.

I am left with so many metaphysical questions that I can only hope are answered by the next movie in this series.

You can watch this on Tubi.

The translated title for this movie is Look at Me. It’s a Mexican horror film — yes, you will need to read some subtitles — that just debuted on Tubi.

Lalo (Axel Alpuche) is having issues with the death of his father. His mother has already packed away all of his dad’s possessions and shipped him off to Mexico to live with his grandmother Elena (Leticia Huijara). The only thing he has left of his father is his wristwatch and he has to adjust to a new school where he becomes the bullied outsider.

If only the real world was all he had to deal with, as Lalo finds that the watch is showing time backward and he also begins to see the ghost of a young girl everywhere he goes. He starts to worry that she wants to take him into the realm of the dead but he feels like he can’t escape her.

While he gains a friend named Rana (Regina Reynoso), he worries about telling her what he’s seeing. When he learns that a girl from their school has also gone missing, he starts to search for her, which brings him closer to not only solving the mystery but potentially being the next victim.

Lake Xochimilco, which was once part of five lakes that were drained to prevent flooding, features into this story. Today, it is mainly used as part of large urban parks in Mexico City, with beautifully decorated rafts called trajineras carrying people through the canals. It presents an otherworldly look that is so different from movies made in the U.S.  Xochimilco is also home to La Llorona and Isla de las Muñecas, an island made from thousands of broken dolls, created by Don Julián Santana Barrera, who found a drowned girl there and for fifty years, he would pay respect to her ghost by decorating the island.

Mirame is directed by Pavel Cantu, who started his career as a storyboard artist, and who wrote this with Veronica Angeles Franco and Ernesto Murguía. It has a great look but I wish that it went deeper into the legends of the area instead of just using them for scenery. That said, for an early effort — he has mainly done recreations for documentaries like TV documentaries and a short — this feels quite confident. I’d love to see what happens next for him.

This movie begins with the words, “Facing the unknown can be terrifying, but you cannot live it any other way.” This could speak to the occult or it could also be about dealing with loss. It seems like we can’t live through the loss of people and while we are changed, we must go through it in order to grow. We have no other choice.

You can watch this on Tubi.

I’ve been into this series since Bigfoot vs. the Illuminati and how can you not love movies with titles like Bigfoot vs. Krampus, Van Helsing, Xterminator and the AI Apocalypse, Bigfoot Goes to Hell and the upcoming Bigfoot vs. Megalodon 2? I nearly forgot Trump vs. the Illuminati!

As the last survivors of the human race try to rebuild society, they have to face off with Megalodon, which has been genetically engineered by the Third Reich, and as always, Aleister Crowley and his army of Archons.

On the good side, we have Van Helsing, Princess Kali, Dr. Jekyll and Bigfoot. Kali and Van Helsing — a clone of the original — have become something of a couple and debate recreating the human race if they ever stop fighting. Meanwhile, Crowley wants to lure Bigfoot to his side and sacrifice him to Satan.

Oh man. I just learned that there’s another movie in this series, Tickles the Clown.

Just a warning. You might see this and thing it looks like your kid’s favorite video game and think you can sit them in front of it. Unless you want your child to ask you some very strange questions about sexual slang, maybe you should find something else. Or I don’t know, let them watch it and learn all about future Nazis and space princesses that like to rough sex. I’m not the parent. I’m just some guy who likes CGI Bigfoot swearing at people.

You can watch this on Tubi.

The third film of Shinpei Hayashiya’s “Deep Sea Monster Series,” this is the sequel to 2009’s Raiga: God of the Monsters.

Raiga returns, rising in Atami Harbor and attacking the city as another monster, Ohga appears to attack him. As the city is destroyed, the defense force launches a new KAMIKAZE as well as a drill tank named Gokumei. As always, the real issue might be the government, who looks at the destruction of the city as a way to make room for a new casino.

It takes so many weapons to take out these two monsters, including pulse weapons, a Gatling Robot, tanks, planes, helicopters, a NI-26 Amphibious Combat Vehicle and a Plasma Photon Bomb that won’t just take out the creatures but anyone near it. Spoiler warning: It also creates a whole new monster, Kuga, which makes its way to Hawaii and a battle with the volcano-generated Dias.

There are moments here where your brain may just give up with all the strobing and colors on screen. There are even scenes where action figures take the place of human beings. This also has dumb government officials — like a comedy version of Shin Godzilla — working with CIA agents that may as well be Ellwood and Jake Blues.

You can watch this on Tubi. You can also buy the blu ray from SRS.

Based on the Native American myth and inspired by Suitmation kaiju movies, Uktena is eighty feet tall and 200 tons thick. He’s an ancient Cherokee monster that has awakened because of the modern world’s greed.

Made by father and son Dan and David Treanor, this pits the titular monster up against Sheriff Poncho Bravo (Marc Bilker), Doc Collins (Kyle Borthick), Colonel Tuttle (Norman Hughes), Dr. Geco (Kayla Rose) and Jerome Greywolf (Jerry Roys).  You should not expect a movie that looks like a high budget epic. But you can be assured that the monster against little people scenes are a lot of fun. There’s a lot of green screen and I know that some people can’t get past that. I get the feeling that the filmmakers had a lot of heart and wanted to make the best monster suit movie they could.

This also has a lot of blues music, talk about the blues and Dan’s friends playing the blues. Kaiju blues. I feel like rewriting “Talk About the Blues” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion just for this:

That’s right
I’m talkin’ ’bout the kaiju
I said it looks so huge baby
Uh
I’m talkin’ ’bout the kaiju
G-FAN magazine
On the telephone, baby
Talk about the kaiju
Right now
Uh
Look out
Yeah

You can buy this from SRS Cinema or watch it on Tubi.

This Japanese stop-motion animated science fiction film was directed and written by Takehide Hori. It has 140,000 stop-motion shots and Hori did it all — voices, sculpting puppets, lighting, camera operating, editing and the music — by himself.

In the future, man can live forever but can longer create life. As they go into decline, Parton goes underground to visit the Magarins, who provide the power that the humans need. Unlike their elite masters, they can keep making new versions of themselves. An explosion kills Parton, but his mind goes into a series of robot bodies which makes him see more of the side of the workers than those benefitting from them.

If you love strange films, science fiction or handmade animation, you need to watch Junk Head.

You can get Junk Head from MVD. It also has The Making Of Junk Head which is really great.

Normally, I would skip right past a movie with the poster and description — “A group of college friends receives the surprise of their lives when they discover there is an actual killer on the scene of a local haunted trail.” — but then I noticed that Haunted Trail was directed by Robin Givens.

Yes, the Robin Givens who pretty much knocked out Mike Tyson.

The first thing you may notice is that the killer looks like the black version of Michael Myers, which is another reason that I watched this. And the direction by Givens is actually fine. But the script by Raven Magwood — who is in the film as Portia — and Paul Lindsay doesn’t give her much to work with. It’s the much-told story of a haunted house — it was filmed at Madworld Haunted Attractions in Piedmont, South Carolina — having a real killer inside it and there aren’t many twists or turns, other than the cast being almost all black and having one token white friend, which is a nice inversion from the traditional slasher.

There was one part that made me laugh and that’s when one character went back for her earring. I’ve seen dumber things in slashers but I don’t know when. Desi Banks and Marquise C. Brown seem to be the biggest names in the cast but were new to me; they’re fine in their roles. The most entertaining thing about this movie? The IMDB reviews that are either 10 out of 10, proclaiming that this is a classic, or 1 out of 10 and taking incredible shots at this movie.

You can watch this on Tubi.