A holiday movie in January? Sure. But this one has a strange tradition I’ve never heard at the center of it.

Mummering is a Christmas-time house-visiting tradition that is mainly done in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland, parts of the United Kingdom and in Philadelphia. People dress in disguise and go from home to home. If they’re let inside, they may dance, sing, tell a joke or share a riddle. Their hosts then guess the mummers’ identities before offering them food or drink. The mummers wears masks and speak while inhaling to change their voices. Once everyone knows who they are, they remove their masks, spend some social time and then move on to the next location.

In the 80s, mummering had a revival when the band Simani released “Any Mummers Allowed In?”

Seriously, I had no idea this existed.

Now that you know what mummering is, you can enter the world of Guess Who.

Directed by Amelia Moses and written by Aaron Martin, Ian Carpenter and Matt Wells (Martin and Carpenter wrote the Terror Train remake and its sequel, as well as Marry F*** Kill on Tubi), this begins with Michael Gosse (Corteon Moore) and his new fiancee Kaitlyn Martindale (Keeya King) driving to his hometown. He explains that mummering will be part of the holiday, which seems to unsettle her. He tells her that he will be there and will keep her safe and that it’s all in fun.

When they get there, however, she has a mummer named Warren (Ryan Bommarito) steal her mother’s necklace. Michael attacks him and soon gets it back, which shows that he may have a darker side. Then, she’s taken to his house, where she meets his mother Edith (Elizabeth Saunders), brother Bobby (Gabriel Darku) and sister Sofia (Vanessa Jackson) and her girlfriend Taylor (Amanda Ip). Everyone in town lives in trailers and things seem dire, but the families try to make the holidays fun even if they’re going through things like Bobby’s wife not letting him see their daughter.

That evening, as they go to the mummer parties, things go from fun and a little scary to horrifying as there’s a killer on the loose. And just when the movie seems to be setting up that anyone could be the killer, well…spoiler warning.

Michael’s family kidnaps Kaitlyn because her rich father Norman (Chimwemwe Miller) caused the suicide of their father and they want money from him to pay it back. The loss of a parent plays into both protagonists but isn’t as developed as well as it could be. In fact, the movie seemingly shifts from being surprising and different to expected with the idea of who the slasher is seemingly forgotten and the idea that Kaitlyn could be killing people seemingly lost, as that was an intriguing angle. Instead, the supernatural air of a riddle slasher turns into a crime drama and I felt lost.

Guess Who is so close to being a good movie that I still advise that you see it. It has a different premise and setting that hasn’t been used in the genre before and for that, I enjoyed most of the film.

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Tell Me No Lies feels inspired by Denise Huskins, who was accused of faking her own kidnapping. That’s the subject of American Nightmare, a Netflix series, but this is a Tubi Original.

Sofia Rose (Keturah Chambers) and her boyfriend Ben (Aaron Fontaine) are getting together for dinner. He tries to make it seem like they’re still a couple and tries to fix where their relationship went wrong, even if she wants nothing to do with him. He breaks down her defenses and later that night, while they’re in bed together, a kidnapper with a voice changer breaks in and kidnaps her. Ben’s the main suspect, as best friend Emily (Nkechi Simms) has hated him for the way he treats her galpal. But this feels like a giallo — everything does to me, I’m obsessed — and the truth is always much odder than the stories we tell.

When she was young, Sofia’s father was shot in a convenience store by a criminal accidentally released by Detective Wright (Wil Johnson). By coincidence — hmm, maybe not? — he’s on the case. And when Sofia frees herself from being kidnapped, he suspects her. But she’s smart enough to work with Jessica (Emily Eaton-Plowright), a young reporter who wants to prove herself.

I just read another review of this movie that was beyond distressed that this movie took a true case and twisted it. Have you ever watched an exploitation movie before? If that upset you, you can never watch so many movies.

Tell No Lies keeps things switching and changing and moving until the end, genuinely having some surprises beyond what you expect from a Tubi Original. Actually, I have to change my mind on that, as not only do I watch every single one of them but I also have to tell you that the quality has improved so much recently.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Directed by Courtney Paige, who wrote the script with J.R. Reher, Chapel starts with Cohen Black (Jeremy Sumpter) waking up in a hospital, unsure of who he is, where he’s been and why a fisherman found him nearly drowned five months ago. He’s helped by a nurse named Sofia Bloome (Pardis Saremi) to learn who he really is and what the name Ethan Tucker means.

Filmed in Utah, this movie is referred to as a country crime thriller. Once Cohen wakes up, he becomes a suspect in a serial murder case and followed by Detective Wyatt. He also has a series of memories that flood back in which he is surrounded by a table of women, which includes Grace Veum (Taryn Manning).

Whatever the past is, Cohen is drawn to a rundown motel where he meets 10 o’Clock Jack (Lochlyn Munro) and despite his relationship with Sofia, he falls for a girl named Misha (Carol Anne Watts). Then he starts to forget attacking — and even killing — women and the police close in, with Wyatt telling him that Sofia can no longer save him. And what’s the story with the envelope that Grace gave to Sofia? And is this whole thing a cover version of Identity by way of Momento on a Tubi budget?

Regardless, it starts strong and is shot pretty well, which is more than you can say for most streaming movies, right?

You can watch this on Tubi.