Before Adopted even has its credits, ten-year-old Dylan (Jayden Aguirre) has already killed his foster family, a fact that no one believes except for Detective Dante Miller (co-writer Marques Houston). The story that he tells about a killer biker who came into their home seems a bit too wild. Yet, who can not believe a child? Indeed, all kids are innocent.

Nope. Get ready for a Chris Stokes take on The Bad Seed, but instead of killing another child over a handwriting contest, people of all ages get killed.

Carrie (Drew Sidora) and James (Daniel J. Johnson) have always wanted a family but can’t. Luckily — well, you know — they are able to adopt Dylan immediately and never learn that his past family died. He’s the perfect kid and even calls them mom and dad on his first day in the house. But in just minutes, Dylan and Ryan (Jahlil Muhammad) — the nephew of next-door neighbor Diane (Shalet Monique) — are playing with a real gun and faking deaths. He also gets way too into Melissa (Victoria Nuckles), who is much older than him, but Dylan is already coming on to her, and when she tells him that she has a boyfriend, he shoots both her and her mother, Diane.

Somehow, Carrie and Jamescano adopt a second child, Bella (Livy Neachell), days after Ryan kills himself mysteriously. Bella might be just as bad as Dylan, but he’s all for killing her before we find out by drowning her in a pool.

Dylan is my favorite Tubi villain now because he’s risen above being verbally abused by his mother and physically attacked by his father — his legs have been scarred and burned from being doused with boiling water — to turn the tables on everyone else, shifting from being a good little boy to suddenly questioning his parents’ abilities ranging from being able to raise him to even calling Carrie’s cooking out by telling her that he’s never had chicken this dry before. It’s incredible how good he is at being the worst child ever.

The end of this movie is something. I’m not going to spoil it for you—Tubi has already teased a sequel—but I didn’t see it coming. Moms will be thrown down the steps, fathers will be attacked, and police will be called. It’s really got the most “woah” cut to credits I’ve seen in some time, as well as a square-up reel PSA before the credits.

This may be the best Chris Stokes movie ever.

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My brother has a significant sneaker collection. As I am to Joe D’Amato, he is to Nike. When I watched this movie, I recognized so many people who live for the next drop. But is it any different than collecting physical media, toys or comic books? Well, you can probably make more money investing in shoes.

I liked that this goes back to Chuck Taylor shoes and the world of athletic equipment, which all looked the same, as well as the athletes and brands that changed how we see shoes and sports. Beyond that, it goes into celebrities and shoe customizers, so if you have no idea what shoe collecting is about, this is a good introduction.

My brother could find a lot wrong with it, but he’s an expert. As someone naive to the scene, I thought it was a good hour to watch.

Directed by Sia Savvy (Gone Before His Time: Kobe Bryant) and written by Christine Nusbaum (Famously Haunted: Hollywood), this doesn’t shy away from some of the issues with shoes, from gangs wearing their colors to people being attacked and killed for their shoes, as well as the difficulty of even getting some Nikes.

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Directed by Caroline Labrèche (Marry F*** Kill) and written by Catharine Park, this Tubi Original is based on the true story of Viktoria Nasyrova, who in 2016 visited her stylist, Olga Tsvyk and gave her a piece of poisoned cheesecake.

Tsvyk nearly died and came home to find that a lot of her belongings were stolen. She blamed Nasyrova before learning they weren’t the only people looking for her. Herman Weisberg, a former NYPD cop turned PI, had been searching for her online. He did find her by paying attention to her social media images, leading the police to her. When arrested, she had ID cards belonging to Tsvyk. As the women looked similar, they believed she planned to steal her identity.

Weisberg was working for Nadia Ford, a Russian woman who believed that Nasyrova had robbed and murdered her mother in Russia and came to the U.S. to stay on the run from Russian police. It took six years for the case to go to trial and just hours to convict her; Russia may still extradite her for crimes there.

This Tubi Original has Victoria Diamond as Nasyrova and Nastassia Markiewicz as Tsyvk. They don’t look much alike, while the real people could have been related. If you don’t know this story, it has been on several true crime shows, and this is a good way to catch up.

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Another winner from director Chris Stokes, who wrote this with Marques Houston; this somehow gets together crypto, affairs and murders into a delectable stew of sex and murder. In short — when crypto moneymaker Nathan Maywood (Tremayne Norris) finds his business losing money — he decides to kill his wife Riley (Drew Sidora), who he thinks is cheating on him, and get the insurance money. Nothing works out right, though.

She seems to be sleeping with his financial advisor, Kevin (Francis Nouvi), whose lousy advice has caused the $250 million dollars Nathan has in the bank to suddenly be worth nothing because no one understands cryptocurrency, and I certainly don’t, so I’m not the person to make sense of it for you. Sorry. But anyway, Nathan decides to get ex-con Jesse (Stephen Barrington) to start sleeping with Riley and eventually kill her.

Jesse falls in love with her, so they hatch a plan where Riley will get her husband back in her bed — instead of between his mistress’ thighs — and as they’re reconnecting, a masked man breaks in who we’d think was Jesse, but no, it’s Kevin, who Nathan shoots and kills. Riley calls the police and claims that her husband has just shot and killed her lover, but what she hasn’t figured out is that he has friends in high places and gets out, visiting her and Jesse in bed where he beats his one-time henchman and now quicker about the head before killing his wife in self-defense.

Where’s the crypto cash? Look, I really have no clue.

Just about everyone in this movie is both gorgeous and horrible. Chris Stokes will make more movies this year than some directors make in their lives, and somehow, he will make so many that I will remember and actually enjoy. Well done.

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A serial killer is on the loose, targeting nurses, despite the movie’s title. The hospital, where traveling nurses Drew (Mia Challis) and Jade (Jonetta Kaiser) are working, seems oblivious to the danger and more interested in partying. When their roommate Gigi (Kabby Borders) becomes a victim, Drew and Jade, amidst their busy rounds, embark on a suspenseful journey to unmask the killer.

Directed by Haylie Duff (remember her as Summer in Napoleon Dynamite?) and written by Danielle Dominique Nelson and Mary Risk, this film follows Drew and Jade as they uncover the truth about Dr. Lawrence C. Hartsen (Rob Mayes). Despite the serious theme, the movie’s medical realism has been criticized in many reviews. But let’s be real: You’re watching a Tubi Original called Killer Nurses. It’s not about perfect medical facts; it’s about the thrill of the chase.

Yes, I may have revealed a significant plot twist, and if you were planning to watch this, I apologize. But fear not, it won’t spoil your viewing experience. This low-demand movie is perfect for a lazy afternoon, whether you’re hungover or battling the flu. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the casual viewing experience unless your need for realism overshadows the fun of just watching something.

Also: If you were showing up for nurses as killers, this title is a liar.

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Alejandro Hidalgo also made The Exorcism of God, which was an intriguing movie. It’s always cool to see new Spanish horror, and it’s great that Tubi is adding movies like this to its Originals.

Aurora (Paulette Hernandez) and her twin brother Martin (Alan Alarcón) have come back home after something happens to their mother, Cleotilde (Lucero Trejo). You know how it is. Never come back home. Never reconnect with your estranged family. But no one listens, and they return to find supernatural horror.

Martin watched their father die when he was a child, so coming home is rough. It doesn’t help that their mother may be fine, but the man who ran errands for her has died in the house. It turns out that she’s slipping into dementia, so they start to look for a home to watch her. However, she thinks that her husband is still alive — her abusive partner that Martin saw die all those years ago — and she may be turning to black magic to make it happen.

This film has an edge and darkness that makes it stand out among the normal Blumhouse-style cash-ins that horror has become today. One terrifying scene has a character waking up to the mother feasting on their toes. It’s also filmed with style; while there are some predictable moments, there’s plenty to enjoy.

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Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan were fitness celebrities. Titus often finished in the top ten of International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation competitions and met his wife Kelly through these events. Before that, he’d been arrested for selling ecstasy and then violated his probation by doing steroids, but he had turned things around. Then, he and his wife hired Melissa James as a live-in personal assistant, but things went wrong.

Directed by Jodi Binstock (Prisoner of Love) and written by Maggie Mock (Tempted), this film casts Brock Yurich as Titus, Tory Trowbridge as Kelly and Paris Smith as Melissa. It tries to show each person’s point of view but quickly gets to the dark ending where the couple kills and burns Melissa in the back of a car.

In this movie, it’s difficult to tell if Craig ever loved Melissa, as he treats her horribly and then calls her right back, telling her that she’s perfect and that he needs her. What version of the story is telling this? Maybe he was all over the place, but his character is hard to pin down. Perhaps that was what it was like and why Melissa stayed around. Bonus points for a scene where she gets all coked up in a dance studio and starts doing multiple dance routines while calling him and screaming into the phone while she’s jamming out. His exasperation made me laugh as he shaved his chest in the shower.

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An underground casino run by Priscilla (Adrienne Barbeau) recruits Nina (Kyla Burke), a girl who grew up as nearly an orphan and whose parents were connected to this life. She uses her business degree to try and grow the place and make it safer for the girls who work there, but there are dangerous men — murderous ones — who want to stay ahead in the gambling game.

Directed by Dylan Vox (Deadly DILF) and written by Ellen Huggins (Good Wife’s Guide to Murder) and Jeremy M. Inman (Sinister Squad), this gives you what you expect from casino movies: gambling scenes, double crosses, murder and plenty of gorgeous women like Carole Davis, Lilian Wouters, Brooke Maroon, Savoy Bailey and Sarah Buxton.

It’s also not the worst movie that I’ve watched just because Adrienne Barbeau was in it. I’ve gotten old and gray and she still looks beautiful. I really liked her in this, as the older woman who is trapped by this life and trying to keep the other girls out of it. Sure, there’s nothing new in this, but most Tubi Originals are great movies for rainy weekend afternoons that allow you to fall asleep and wake up whenever and keep watching. There’s not much demand on you. That’s nice.

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Sloane (Emma Elle Paterson) is obsessed with true crime and serial killers to the point that she’s created a kit for women, “If I Go Missing,” which they fill out with all of their information when they are taken and murdered. While working at a coffee shop, she becomes sure that someone is a murderer, but then again, she thinks that all the time. What if she’s right this time?

Directed by Stefan Brogren (the director of twenty episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation — he was Archie “Snake” Simpson on the show — as well as Billion Dollar Bluff and A Chance for Christmas, Obsessed to Death and Twisted Neighbor) and written by Andrea Shawcross, this takes an idea directly from a true crime podcast, as the Crime Junkie podcast — hosted by Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat — has the hosts discuss what goes into their folder, like a written will, lists of people that know them and even email and phone log-in data.

Will the killer be Nathan (Damon McLean) or Elliot (Robert Bazzocchi)? Where is Sloane’s missing cousin? Will I watch any movie that Tubi produces?

You may not know the answers to the first two, but the last one? Yes, you knew that one.

This is fine, a quick and enjoyable little film about a coffee shop that seemingly is the center of all the death and murder happening in this town. That said, if the cold brew is good, it’s worth it.

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