Produced by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) and directed by John Farrelly, this is the first Irish language horror film ever made.

In 1852, during one of the worst famines in Ireland’s history, Éamon Finegan (Tom Kerrisk) and his daughter Máire (Livvy Hill) take on a caretaker role at an isolated mansion, renovating it during an unforgiving winter. I think if I’ve learned anything from horror movies, it’s never work in an large hotel or house during the winter, because there’s definitely going to be something inside the house that either possesses or tries to off you.

As he works to improve the estate, Éamon has an accident and slams his axe into his foot, leading to him having to stay in bed. Máire works on the property and takes care of him as he begins to drink and lose his grasp on reality. As she hides from his rage, she also must beware the specters that exist on the grounds. She’s been haunted before and thought she had escaped. But now, within this home and the elements beating the windows, she’s trapped all over again.

What happens when a third party, the land steward (Anthony Murphy) arrives? And is the ghost who has followed Máire for years, Alexander, real? The close of this movie, with its strobing imagery and overlapping faces, is incredible and unlike anything I’ve seen in film. If the ghost isn’t real — and Máire says that she wishes that it was — then what horror has she truly gone through?

I watched An Taibhse (The Ghost) at Pigeon Share FrightFest. It’s the UK’s best, brightest, and largest independent international thriller, fantasy, and horror film festival and has three major events each year in London and Glasgow. Learn more at the official site.

Dr. Grant Walker (Mike Capes) is a paleontologist who discovered the fossilized anus of a raptor, the kind of artifact that should have made him a legend but instead was stolen by the Tyler Corporation — not run by Steven Tyler — and the depression that came with this loss cost him his girlfriend Amber (Caitlin McHugh) and now finds him working in a dinosaur theme park, attempting to teach kids about science but instead doing dances with security guard and dinosaur suit wearer Denny (David Shackelford).

Yet life is looking up. It turns out that Amber is back in town, even if she has a young daughter with a name that no one can remember. There’s also a mystery, as a child and the guard dog for the park are both missing and gigantic piles of excrement are left in their place. Dr. Grant is sure its a raptor, but then he learns that his fossil created an invisible raptor which was to be used as a weapon for the government but has escape its captivity.

The journey to find the raptor will bring Dr. Grant and Amber back together, perhaps make Dr. Grant and Denny pals for life and definitely have them digging through a pile of raptor road apples in a child’s bedroom and finding a retainer, which is a definite sign that the raptor has a sweet tooth for little kids, even if they don’t want to tell the child’s grieving, drunk and attractive mother that news. The trail leads them to a chicken farm, run by Henrietta McCluckskey (Sandy Martin), where the raptor keeps assaulting the chicken mascot statue.

How did they make this monster? The answer is simple. “‘Did you see Jurassic Park? We did that.” Yet what this hilarious movie from director Mike Hermosa and co-writers Mike Capes (yes, the same person playing the lead) and Johnny Wickham does is audacious. It’s not just a loving homage to the biggest dinosaur movie ever, it’s also the second invisible dinosaur movie after Sound of Horror.

This is set in Spielburgh County and the jokes come fast and ZAZ-style furious, even having a moment that echoes Gary Busey’s weapon-filled vehicle in Predator 2 and so many nods to Amblin productions.  Yet even in this film that laughs at nearly ever demise and is filled with copious gore, it has a heart, an appearance by Richard Riehle as the town’s sheriff and several redemption stories. And oh yeah, a Sean Astin cameo and Vanessa Chester, Ian Malcolm’s daughter Kelly in Jurassic Park: The Lost World, shows up as a DJ.

I loved it, but then again, I’m a sucker for movies that reference movies and are filled with poop jokes and gore. You can even get an action figure of the Invisible Raptor here!

I watched The Invisible Raptor at Pigeon Share FrightFest. It’s the UK’s best, brightest, and largest independent international thriller, fantasy, and horror film festival and has three major events each year in London and Glasgow. Learn more at the official site.

Joanne Mitchell makes her debut as a full-length director by taking her short Sybil and creating Broken Bird. Based on a story by Tracey Sheals and written by Mitchell and Dominic Brunt, it tells several stories about loss and grief, most importantly Sybil (Rebecca Calder), an assistant undertaker who styles herself like a modern day Louise Brooks, attends open mike nights where she reads obtuse poetry and dreams of being in love with Mark (Jay Taylor), a man who works at the Roman funeral museum.

There’s also Emma (Sacharissa Claxton), who has lost her child and is drinking herself into oblivion, which starts to impact her job as a cop and keeps her from investigating her case.

Meanwhile, Sybil’s imagination runs wild, always being disappointed by real men and choosing to romance those who are dead and unable to disappoint her. Sadness has infected her whole life, as she’s the only survivor of an auto accident that killed her entire family. While strange, she’s a hard worker and prized by her boss.

Once she learns that Mark has a fiancee named Tina (Robyn Rainsford), Sybil is let down yet again. When Mark dies — maybe not an accident — she finally gets the chance to touch him, even if he’s joined the choir invisible. At the same time, Emma gets closer to where her dead son’s body disappeared from after it was at the very same funeral home where Sybil works, a place where wonders what her boss Mr. Thomas (James Fleet)(James Fleet) keeps in the cold room.

Calder is incredible in this, pulling off a balancing act that requires her to be monstrous and yet sympathetic. There are moments where you will be on her side, despite the fact that she covets a widow’s lost lover and does all she can to possess it, even dancing before him and covering his face with her panties. It’s enough to wake him up, at least in her fantasies, and maybe that’s all she needs. Maybe this world isn’t for her.

I watched Broken Bird at Pigeon Share FrightFest. It’s the UK’s best, brightest, and largest independent international thriller, fantasy, and horror film festival and has three major events each year in London and Glasgow. Learn more at the official site.

Cassie Tate (Kyle Kankonde) and Jack Benson (Titus Makin Jr.) have finally moved past being engaged forever and living with a roommate — Greg Harmon (Charlie N. Townsend) — to finally deciding that it’s time to get married. Jack and Greg go out for a last night as bachelors, but they get in an argument over the fact that now Greg has to move out and find his own life. Jack never comes home and is missing when Cassie turns to Greg for comfort. Almost the very second that they finally start to make love, the police call. Jack has been found.

Jack remembers nothing about what happened and Greg helpfully says that he will keep living in the house and acting as his nurse. To say he goes too far with this — jumping in the shower to soap him down and slowly taking off his shirt first — is exactly why he’s my favorite bad guy that has ever been in a Tubi movie.

Directed by Sara Lohman (Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial), who co-wrote this with Amy Irons (Twisted Date), this movie is like a nightmare made for uptight straight people. Greg has no problem with never moving forward in his life and being tied to two people, their third wheel forever, while the supposedly bonded couple feels like they have no real passion the way that Greg does for both of them. He’s always happy, even when wiping out home care nurses. All he wants is to be loved. Is that so wrong?

Sure, he tried to kill his best friend and now basically manhandles him in the shower and takes advantage of him when he’s hurt. Yes, he’s the monstrous villain of this. However, like all great villains, he’s way more fun than anyone else in this movie. You want to see him be happy or at least live to be in a bunch of sequels.

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This movie is about the syndicate. Is it the same syndicate that Olga worked for? Or is it something else? Well, it’s the Vogel Syndicate, but I kept yelling about the syndicate like the narrator in White Slaves of Chinatown.

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“At a high end beach club, a female college lifeguard gets caught up in a secret affair with a wealthy housewife.”

Yeah, but there’s also a Beachwaters.com website, a giallo-style hidden killer, a Sliver love of filming people and a movie-ending fashion show that is as realistic as the Oscars from The Howling III.

Loved it.

Abby (Natalee Linez) is the new lifeguard, one of the few women surrounded by men, but taken in as just one of the guys as she’s a lesbian. Soon, she falls for Imani (Gina Vitori), the rich woman who has hired her to teach her how to swim, but come on, they swim for all of a minute before they’re making out, giving you flashbacks to the days when video stores had that adult but not porn section that you still had to be 18 to rent from but that you could maybe get away with if your significant other didn’t want you embarrassing them by walking out of the porn room curtain in front of everyone in town.

Every young lifeguard is being filmed as they act like, well, young people at a high end beach resort and rack up body counts before being part of this movie’s body count. They’re also all orphans with no next of kin, which means that when the rich and famous want to kill them, they have no one stopping them, investigating their crimes or wondering why the people who should save lives are all dying. Even the one cop in town is in on it.

Directed by Niki Koss and written by Mary Risk, this moves along fast enough and has a nice resolution. I’m always pleased that Tubi continues to be the mom and pop video store of today. And you don’t even have to worry about anyone seeing you rent a slightly dirty film.

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Nina (Nicole Peters) is a barista who was originally going to school to be a lawyer before deciding that she didn’t like where her life was going. Now, however, she’s deep in debt and floating through life, keeping people like her regular hookup Curtis (Alexander Eling) at a distance. She’s the opposite — or so it seems — of her twin sister Victoria (Lauren Peters), who is a consultant about to marry the love of her life, Ryan (Theo Vandergraaf). Again, all things are not as they appear, as it turns out that Victoria is actually a high end call girl and she needs her sister to go on one last date for her, meeting the very rich David Linx (Shaun Benson). Of course, Nina breaks the first rule of this career, falling for her john, and probably the second, as she gets pulled into getting evidence on Linx, who is a criminal.

The Peters twins have been in A Simple Favor, playing the younger version of Blake Lively, being on the Team Canada water skiing team and participating in The Amazing Race Canada. They were also the Doublemint twins in the Pop-Tarts movie Unfrosted. They and Shaun Benson are the best parts of this film, as when it concentrates on their relationship, it’s really strong.

It falters when it comes to tone, as there are times when it wants to be grimy and realistic as well as others where it feels like a forced farce, particularly any scenes that involve the girls’ parents (Michèle Duquet and Stephen Sparks) or cousin Penelope (Blair MacMillan).

Of course, things take a turn when Linx’s partners start to come after him. Plus, relationship drama, as it just so happens that Nina’s lover Curtis works for him and he finds out that she’s his regular escort. At the same time, Victoria’s fiancee discovers where all his soon-to-be wife’s money comes from.

Directed by Karen Knox and written by Jen Bashian (Tubi Originals Frankie Meets Jack and Below Deck Deceit), this is a film within one of my favorite subgenres: the sex worker movie that never shows anyone really having sex. It’s a magical world of playing backgammon, getting necklaces and fancy dinners.

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Katelyn Harken (Samantha Neyland Trumbo, the first black Miss Hawaii U.S.A.) has just started at the plastic surgery clinic run by Dr. Nichols (Helena Mattsson) and Dr. Peterson (Anthony Montgomery, General Hospital). From just about the beginning, things seem off, as former doctor Brad (Harry Jarvis) is trying to make a stink and Detective Elliot (Justin Chu Cary) is investigating a murder. We’re shown exactly what is going on when a woman’s face is being ripped off. So that leads to the question that I am sure that you are asking: Who is the Sinister Surgeon?

Katelyn has a strange career path, as her father was a famous heart surgeon and she was becoming one until he died, causing her to suddenly switch to plastic surgery. I’m not one to ask for realism in my erotic thrillers, but I don’t think that’s how it works.

That said, she soon makes a friend in front office assistant Lori (Alisa Allapach), who was a doctor before a car accident caused her to lose her eyesight on one side. She works in the clinic and even gets free surgery from Dr. Peterson. Speaking of the kindly doctor, it’s literally a day before he’s all over his new doctor. If she looks like his dead wife Alana — like all of his conquests, including murder victims Angel and Erica and patients Jennifer (Ashley London), Tracey (Shantel Jackson) and Sarah (Jordyn Rolling) — we wouldn’t have a movie otherwise.

Directed by Jonathan Louis Lewis (who directed Black Devil Doll using the name Jonathan Lewis) and written by Mary O’Neil (You Shouldn’t Have Let Me In) and James Quinn, this is a movie not content to have just one twist. It’s also one where every character makes the absolute dumbest decision every time they have an opportunity to and the real killer is easy to spot. That said, I was entertained, mainly because I kept yelling “Sinister Surgeon” at the screen every couple of seconds.

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The TMZ crew is all back together –Harvey Levin, Charles Latibeaudiere, Fabian Garcia, Towanda Robinson. Katie Hayes and Eric Colley — yelling at one another and treating celebrities as if they are the most important thing in the world, just as you want them to.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye vs. Taylor Swift. The Rock vs. Vin Diesel. Drake vs. Meek Mill. Pete Davidson vs. PETA. The Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rodgers one feels pretty real, even if a lot of these other ones may not. Man, there are a lot of beefs, you know?

They made this before Drake’s Kendrick Lamar feud. Where’s the Tubi TMZ movie of that? They got that Donald Trump bullet to the ear one out fast. Where’s the important stuff? I need the TMZ crew to yell at each other and go deep into every lyric.

I am cursed to watch every Tubi Original and I am way behind. Please forgive me and the demons that have my soul under contract. I signed it in blood.

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