Tubi Terrors - A 3 Film Recap

One thing that has kept people entertained and busy during the pandemic is streaming services. Things like Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, and the countless were all there to help us through the rough of it and continue to be there for us by putting out new original projects every so often.

One particular streaming service that kept getting mentioned within the horror community was Tubi. Someone I’m acquainted with referred to Tubi as the “unsung hero” of streaming services, and it wasn’t until I downloaded it last month that I realized what I had been missing. I’ll admit that the reason I downloaded Tubi was because I had listened to the Junkfood Cinema podcast episode with BJ Colangelo about the iconic Lifetime movie She’s Too Young. I had a brief Twitter interaction with BJ about the movie and she mentioned how it was on Tubi. I hadn’t seen it in years and after listening to her episode I wanted to watch it with a more mature outlook on life, so I downloaded it. To my surprise Tubi not only had Lifetime movies I thought I’d never be able to watch again, but they also had a lot of horror movies I thought I’d never be able to see, or see again.

Because of Tubi’s massive library, I decided to come up with a blog idea that would get me writing more, specifically about horror movies.

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CANDYMAN 3: DAY OF THE DEAD

Released in 1999, Candyman 3: Day of the Dead is the third installment in the Candyman franchise. Reprising his role of Candyman, this movie stars Tony Todd and Donna D’Errico. D’Errico plays Caroline, a direct descendant who is trying to open a gallery dedicated to Candyman’s long lost work while being haunted by the hooked man. Determined to have Caroline join him in the afterlife, Candyman starts to pick off those closest to her so that she’ll have no where to turn but to him.

The only redeeming factor to this movie was the fact that Tony Todd, like always, gave it his all. The kills were okay too.

2.5/5

P2

Holiday horror is one of my favorite sub-genres, and P2 was one movie I’d wanted to watch for awhile. Released in 2007, this underrated gem stars Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols. It is about a young woman who is being stalked by an obsessed security guard while she is trapped in a parking garage during Christmas Eve.

I really liked this movie. It could be because I’m biased towards holiday horror, or it could be because it was a beautiful mixture of tension and occasionally gore. I’ll admit I think P2  is a tad too long as it starts to drag towards the end due to the cat-and-mouse chase that ensues, but the tension it builds with character interactions earlier in the movie balances it out for me. Between the fantastic acting from Bentley and Nichols, to the somewhat graphic kills, P2 is a movie that flew under my radar for too long and should be on the top of your list come Christmas time.

4/5

DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE

Don’t Go in the House is about a young man who stalks and tortures young women by setting them on fire because of his heinous childhood. This 1979 psychological horror movie starring Dan Grimaldi, as Donald, bares a resemblance to Hitchcock’s Psycho.

While reading reviews and pulling up the IMDb page for reference to begin writing about Don't Go in the House, I discovered that the version on Tubi is actually an edited version. I expected to see a scene of someone getting burned by a flamethrower, and, when I didn’t get it, I was upset and underwhelmed by the movie. Finding out it was an edited version of the movie makes sense, and when I decide to rewatch it I’ll remember that. One of my favorite things about Don’t Go in the House, probably the most important thing, is Grimaldi’s acting.  The more I read about the Psycho influences, the more parallels I can draw from Norman Bates and Donald. A difference between the two is that Donald is more aggressive and brutal with his kills since he tortures his victims. I didn’t love this movie at first, but I also didn’t hate it. Since reading more about it, it’s started to grow on me which will hopefully make the second viewing of it more enjoyable.

3/5

** The films listed above may, or may not still be available to stream on Tubi.