Small Town Monsters (On the Trail of UFOs: Night Visitors, Skinwalker: The Howl of the Rougarou, MOMO: The Missouri Monster) are back with a new documentary, American Werewolves, in which Seth Breedlove asks, “Do real werewolves exist? And what are dogmen?”

With nearly a dozen eyewitness accounts, the film allows these people the opportunity to share their encounters directly to us, the audience. From brief run-ins on rural country lanes to horrifying, face-to-face confrontations and the discovery of the shredded remains of a werewolf victim, each has a frightening story to share.

Every year, dozens of encounters with upright canids are reported in America. Better known as dogmen, some think it’s an unidentified species of animal, while others believe that this creature is something supernatural.

Thousands of people go missing in the United States each year and this film posits the hypothesis that a real werewolf — or dogman — may be behind it, including a woman abducted in Ohio and a man hiking in Alaska mutilated beyond what any predator would do.

I was really excited to learn that dogmen tend to sow outside Native American burial grounds as I live right next to the second-largest east of the Mississippi.

That said, I’m a big fan of everything that Small Town Monsters puts out and this release is no exception. Their films are always well made, have unique points of view and tell a great story. Often, they stand head and shoulders above basic cable offerings about the same subjects.

American Werewolves is available on major streaming platforms from 1091 Pictures, including iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu and FandangoNOW. You can learn more at the official Small Town Monsters site.

Deputy Fisher (Peter Tell, who co-wrote this) must watch over the body of the recently deceased Matya Abelman (Laura Golinski) until her family can claim the body. But his curiosity gets the better of him and when he looks at her body, he concludes an unfinished ritual. Now tormented by literal demons, he must also face the demons of his past.

Director and co-writer Matt Cunningham (The Mangler Reborn, The Spore) weaves a pretty interesting tale here. For some movies, it’d be enough to have that corpse walk around, conveniently after Fisher’s partner Haley (Heslip Winters) leaves. But what if there was something watching from the woods? Or that Fisher’s wife and daughter came back from the grave as well and start bedeviling him? And just who is that voice on the radio?

This was a real surprise to me, a movie that I had no expectations for whatsoever and ended up spellbound by. Definitely check it out — it’s high concept on low budget, which is one cocktail I always love to drink.

3 Demons is now available on DVD, Digital, and On Demand.

Maddie (Caitlin Gerard, Insidious: The Last Key, who co-wrote this movie) and her twin sister Abigail (also played by Caitlin Gerard) are the only two people to survive meeting The Mechanic (Kane Hodder, forever Jason, forever awesome). As Maddie wakes from a nightmare of their encounter — filled with blood, scrawled pentagrams and terror — she learns that he’s due to die tonight. Her sister won’t answer the phone and she keeps remembering the night The Mechanic towed her mother along with her and her sister away into the night.

As Maddie explains to her therapist what happened in her past, her sister is breaking into the garage of The Mechanic and having visions of him. Before you know it, people start dying and the sisters are suspects, but the way that movie bounces between today and yesterday, reality and fantasy, it’s often hard to figure out exactly what’s going on.

The idea of a tow truck driver who kills the people he’s supposed to help, much less one that uses the occult to bring the victims who escaped him into his mind, is a great one. If you’re hiring someone to play that killer, Kane Hodder is the perfect person. And that’s where the movie runs out of gas, sadly, when it’s where it should get started.

I’ve watched hundreds of giallo movies and if I say something is an incoherent mess, this is coming from someone that usually celebrates incoherent messes.

Director Vanessa Alexander has only made this one movie, which was written by Jesse Mittelstadt (Across the Hall, No Escape Room). There’s something in here, buried deep, and there’s definitely some style in the way that cinematographers Chris Faulisi and Pedja Radenkovic (who also shot Danzig’s Death Rider In the House of Vampires) have filmed this. It just needs to get the flashbacks, well, flashed back and move on to the actual story, in the actual timeline, and get out of its own way.

You can watch this on Tubi.

What would it be like to grow up as the child of one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history? This Tubi original documentary explores what that’s like for the son of Gary Ridgway, the infamous Green River Killer.

Directed by Victoria Duley (who produced several other Tubi exclusives like Famously Haunted: Amityville and Scariest Monsters in America) and written by Chip Selby, this film explores the life and murders of Gary Ridgway, who is currently serving 49 consecutive life sentences for the murder of 49 women through the 80s and 90s.

Beyond interviewing Ridgeway, his son Matthew, ex-wife and neighbors, this also features the lead detective on the case Dave Reichert, former commander of the Green River Task Force Frank Adamson, Seattle reporter Olivia LaVoice, former co-worker Diane LaPointe, The Crime Weekly Podcast podcaster Stephanie Harlowe and forensic psychotherapist Michael Drane. There are also dramatizations to show what it was like to be part of Ridgeway’s life.

While this may not have the budget of a Dateline or other network true crime show, it does have plenty to tell you about the case. Then again, if you’re watching this, chances are you already know all about the Green River Killer and you’ll see this as another generic take on true crime. You certainly have plenty of options of what to watch when it comes to murder porn, right?

You can watch this on Tubi.

Steve Mackleson (Craig Fairbrass) is twenty years into a life sentence for the double murder of his ex-wife and her lover. He has accepted that he will never see the world again, yet he hopes to protect his new cellmate Marcus (Stephen Odubola), a young black man caught between gangs and his career of dealing drugs, even when in jail.

At the same time, Steve is working with social worker Claire Keats (Zoë Tapper) to get the chance to finally confront his daughter Rebecca (Rosie Sheehy) and try to explain why he murdered her mother.

Directed and written by Ross McCall, who also appears in one scene, this is nearly a single room — a jail cell — film about a hard man remaining that way despite everything jail has put him through. It’s nasty, brutish and unforgiving, much like its lead, who made his name in movies like Villain and Rise of the Footsoldier.

You can watch this on Tubi.