Aisha Osagie (Letitia Wright, Black Panther) is a Nigerian girl seeking asylum in Ireland. As you can imagine, she’s not treated well by anyone and is seen as less than nothing. Luckily, she has a good lawyer in Peter Flood (Loran Cranitch) and starts a friendship with Conor Healy (Josh O’Connor, Challengers).

Aisha may have a sad existence, but it’s better than the violence that she’s left behind, as her father and brother were both killed, and her mom has gone into hiding. She, much like so many of the asylum seekers that she befriends, can be taken away at any time, which means their lives start to feel almost meaningless.

Director and writer Frank Berry has put together a good movie that has flown under the radar and ended up on Tubi. It has so much to say about the world- the country, if you’re in the U.S.- that we’re living in today. It ends in a totally anticlimactic way, but even that makes so much sense, and it seems like it has to be that way.

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Directed by Adam Meyer, this film claims that Scream was based on the real serial killer Danny Rolling, also known as the Gainesville Ripper, who murdered Florida college students Christina P. Powell, Sonya Larson, Christa Leight Hoyt, Tracy Inez Paules and Manuel R. Toboda during a four-day period in 1990. He decapitated one and set the bodies up for people to find much like a slasher villain.

Kevin Williamson, the writer of Wes Craven’s movie,  watched an episode of ABC News’ Turning Point and wrote Woodsboro Murders, which changed its name to the title we know these days.

Rolling may have had multiple personalities, which were the result of abuse from his police officer father. He carried that abuse to his wife and son before getting divorced, being arrested for raping a woman who looked just like his ex-wife and going to jail numerous times for robbery. By the 90s, he’d go on to kill Julie Grissom, her eight-year-old nephew and her 55-year-old father before shooting his own father in the stomach and head. Somehow, his dad lived, but lost an eye.

After killing five women and abusing their bodies in August 1990, he was arrested for robbing a Winn-Dixie. Cops found him in jail, identified by one of his teeth that had been extracted while incarcerated. He pled not guilty and even wrote a book with his future fiancee, journalist Sondra London, titled The Making of a Serial Killer.

By 1994, however, he pled guilty and was executed in 2006, not before singing to the 47 people who came to watch him die. They cut his mic off and then his life.

How much of Williamson and Craven’s film comes from this? It was more an inspiration. But hey — we have a Tubi Original about it, so you can watch that.

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Noah Hazard (Dimitri “Vegas” Thivaios) may love his girlfriend Lea (Jennifer Heylen) and their daughter Zita (Mila Rooms), but the true love of his life is his gold Lexus. However, he soon puts everyone in danger by helping his cousin Carlos (Jeroen Perceval) pick up Kludde (Frank Lammers) from prison and immediately go on a run to steal drugs.

Somehow this leads to a man having sex with Noah’s car, a criminal kidnapping his daughter, crazy stunts through the streets of Antwerp, this never leaves the inside of the car, which you would think limits the film, but thanks to animation and just plain strangeness, you never feel trapped.

Directed by Jonas Govaerts (Cub) and written by Trent Haaga (68 Kill), this is an example of a Tubi Original that moves to the top of the heap. If this is what it takes to get experimental foreign films to America, so be it, because I have no idea where else Hazard would fit in. It’s well-shot, the soundtrack is amazing — Thivaois is a DJ — and even has a strong message by the close. It’s in a world that is our own but not quite; it’s like a video game come to life.

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Directed and written by Jon McDonald, this film seemed to escape my radar when it came out in 2022.

Back in the sixties, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum (Cary Elwes) invented the Titan Badge, which creates superpowers by changing the molecular structure of its wearer’s DNA. He started a family — America’s first family of superheroes — by adopting three street children: Ansel (Alphonso McAuley) who has increased strength, Vista (Penelope Mitchell) who can read minds and Maya (Elaine Tan) who can teleport.

Into the seventies, the team changes, as the children rebel against their father, sort of like how Professor X’s students, The Doom Patrol’s Chief and Sir Reginald Hargreeves of The Umbrella Academy all lost their students. Actually, this feels an awful lot like The Umbrella Academy if it were directed by Wes Anderson.

In 1979, Vista and Ansel decide that they want their powers back. It’s like a drug, one they’ve come down off of and now, they want that feeling back. They decide to steal two of the badges, not realizing that their father must scan them to make that happen. So they take the entire Hyperion Museum hostage, which brings back one of their old villains, Ares (Keli Price).

Their father has created three generations of the team by now and, like an even weirder Walt Disney, hosts a weekly show called the Hyperion Club that broadcasts the exploits of his many children. He seems unaware of the strain and damage he’s put his children through, robbing them of their powers when they decide to show any independence. He’s a more malevolent Charles Xavier, a character I never saw as much of a hero. That said, he may be so senile that his handlers are making every decision for him.

The success of this film is because of McDonald, a former animator and storyboard artist, who is able to create the visual look of two eras in this, as well a very unique take on superpowers. It’s a shame how close it hews to other comic tropes, as it feels like the lack of a third act and the way things emotionally instead of violently resolve is quite adult — and strong, to be frank — for a comic book movie.

This movie was part of the DailyWire+ streaming service, just like Run Hide Fight, Convicting a Murderer and Am I Racist? Because of that, this probably slipped under most radars. If you want to see a superhero movie that may not be perfect but has many ideas that keep it fresh, even if to get there it had to replicate some DNA, check it out.

Here’s a coincidence: Rafia Iqbal is a Canadian actress who doubled for Ritu Arya in The Umbrella Academy and is known for her role as Hyperion in the TV series The Boys.

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In this movie, directed and written by Steven Morris, a small Midwestern town is filled with depression and drug dependency after a serial killer named Sammy the Elf killed several people over the holidays ten years ago. Today, Christina (Kayla Kelly) is finally coming back to the place of her childhood trauma. She finds a place where all of her old friends are parents and a whole new series of killings.

This has Lynn Lowry in it, which is always a plus in my book, as well as Jessa Flux, who was Carmilla Karnstein in Debbie Does Demons. It has some fun kills in it, but loses energy after the tense opening and the fun animated credits. That said, for the budget that it has, it’s not the worst holiday horror movie that I’ve seen, even if Shawn C. Phillips is in it. Ah, that’s mean and it’s Christmas.

Again, as always, never go back home to the place where your past traumas were. And double down on that over the holidays.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The I Hope You Suffer podcast said that “Since everybody is doing these movie challenges now, we made the only one worth doing.” Bring the pain.

Directed and written by Adam Thorn, this is an anthology where a man who needs to use an outhouse on a nature trail is blocked by an old hermit who tells him three stories. On the way, we get to hear “Crucified Woman” by Riz Ortolani, which is from Cannibal Holocaust.

In “The PandaManiac of the Pandemic,” you get exactly what is promised. A panda masked killing machine wiping out some teens, one of whom is Justin Decloux from Gold Ninja Video/The Important Cinema Club. He’s one of many twenty or thirty something teens in this who all dance like Jimmy Mortimer. Every time the panda attacks, he’s greeted with some metal, which is the exact thing I wanted. A panda that rips ears off soundtracked with barked vocals and double bass! He even grabs a guitar and murders someone, all before the pizza gets there.

In “Ranger,” we learn that the Amityville Outhouse used to be in Amityville but is now in the woods somehow and it keeps reappearing, which makes a park ranger go crazy. He chops it to pieces, he sets it on fire and then he gave up and decided to use the outhouse. The voices of the spirits got in his head and he burned the outhouse down with himself inside it, killing only the ranger.

The next installment is “Holy Shite,” a priest tries to exorcise a woman. As he finishes, he must take a number two, giving birth to a Satanic shit, so to speak, a demonic dookie, an infernal hot snake. It ends up becoming a poopet and asks the clergyman to teach it how to sing and what humor is, but it still ends up killing him when he tries to go to the bathroom again.

Finally, “The Gabba Ghoul AKA The Meat Man” is supposed to get to the bottom Amityville and the Jersey mob. This tracks, as the DeFeo family had organized crime connects through Louise DeFeo’s father, Michael Brigante, Sr., an associate of Gambino boss Carlo Gambino. As an Italian-American, this is where I remind you that the mafia and organized crime does not exist. Cole slaw creatures are also not real.

Amityville Outhouse is yet another example, along with The Amityville Curse, why Amityville movies should be made in Canada. It’s way better than any of the other sequels and I didn’t have to look at Shawn C. Phillips.

I can go to the bathroom almost anywhere but even I have issues with bathrooms in parks. It just seems like you could get killed and this movie has made that real.

Also: The song “Fat Kid On a Toilet” is wonderful.

I downloaded this for $2 Canadian here and you can also get it from Gold Ninja Video along with Rock ‘n’ Roll Asylum.