New Religion (2022): Miyabi (Kaho Seto) has lost her daughter when she falls from the balcony, which puts her in a dark place, working as an escort in a basement somewhere with two other women. Sure, she has a new guy, but one of her co-workers — Aiwaza (Daiki Nunami) — loses her mind and kills a whole bunch of people with a knife.

One of Aiwaza’s prize clients — Oka (Satoshi Oka) — now needs someone to take care of his needs, so Miyabi takes over. His needs? He takes photos of women, slowly, strangely and in ways that make them feel like they’re being dissected. Yes, that’s strange. But what’s weird is that his house is either always pitch black or blindingly red. Strange enough? What if he had no vocal cords and now spoke through the sound system of his home at body-rattling volume? And what if, with each photo that Oka takes, Miyabi gets closer to seeing her dead daughter?

Also, none of this could be happening. Or all of it.

Directed and written by Keishi Kondo, this is not a movie to go into hoping for a straight-up horror film. But for those willing to journey toward its heart of darkness, there’s something strange and wonderful here.

Neu Mirrors (2025): “Neu Mirrors is a spin-off short film that attempts to answer certain unanswered questions of I and begins just after a scene in the previous film.”

Aizawa wakes up in a strange hotel room as a voice calls him from his earphone. Aizawa notices a man in a white shirt in the room with a photo book at his feet. There are the faces of many strangers and his own face printed on it.

Things don’t get any less weird from there.

This film takes on blue instead of red as its primary color. I love that it can be seen as an expansion or meditation on the past film or entirely on its own. Either way, director and writer Keishi Kondo is a force that creates otherworldly art.

Extras include an interview with the director, behind-the-scenes footage, outtakes, audio commentary on the film, an early concept version of the movie, a crowdfunding teaser, a trailer, an international trailer and a slipcase and reversible sleeves with original artwork for both films. You can buy this from Terra Cotta.

I have a friend who loves James Storm so much that whenever someone complains, he always sends them a picture of him that says, “Sorry about your damn luck.” Even people in our friend group who have no idea who he is—a star for TNA Wrestling for some time—love him now.

In this, Storm plays former world champion Tommy Majic, who someone wants to see fight again, so they kidnap his wife Cindy (Tracey Birdsall). There’s also Suzi (Finnish rock star and stuntwoman Jessica Wolff), who was planning on a marriage of convenience to a rich man, breaking the heart of her fiancé, before men kidnap them and her friend from Japan, who has come to see her get married, Akira Fujiyama (Kaori Kawabuchi). They’re all now in Hotel Underground — they even kidnapped her mom (Christa Billich) — a place that is both an underground fight club and also a place where a man named Dr. Butcher (Big Bad Ralph) cuts people up and also pops out as if he were a character in a dark ride. Oh — there’s also Debi (Australian rock star and pro wrestler Nicole Sharrock), who wants to kill men who abuse women.

This is a movie made with plenty of pro wrestlers and stuntpeople, like Jessica Wolf and Erika Reid. Director Steve Ravic has worked with the same crew — and many of the same actors — on several of his films. In this, he’s making something with flashbacks, weird color patterns and layered edits. It’s kind of wild and also feels like it could have been a VCA movie from the 80s, quality-wise, just without sex. There are so many stories going on, sometimes all at once, but this isn’t something you see on streaming and think it will be the finest in cinema. Enjoy it for what it is — an underground fight club populated by pro wrestlers with issues. I feel like I have lived this.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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.

You can watch this on Tubi.