Death Name | Halloween 2026

When I opened the Tubi app, I was surprised to see a Korean horror movie pop up. I tend to like Korean horror, though some can be too gory for me. So I have high hopes for Death Name.

Sophie (Amy Keum) is a Korean-American woman struggling with her Korean identity. When she transfers to a new college, she meets a group of Korean students willing to help her learn more about her heritage…a heritage her grandmother was unwilling to talk about. but when a mysterious stranger named Jun (Kevin Woo) comes into her life, Sophie learns about the tragedies in her family tree.

To be honest, I’m having a difficult time trying to find the words to explain why I enjoyed this movie. Maybe it’s because it was interesting to see the importance of names in Korean culture. Maybe I sympathized with Sophie as an outcast. Even though I am not Korean or a child of immigrants, I completely understand feeling shunned from social groups. I just know that I wish more Tubi movies were like this.

Rating: Can I join the group for karaoke?

Psycho Side Chick | Halloween 2026

Just when I think I’m getting to the end of the Tubi thrillers, they release new ones. Psycho Side Chick came out last week and it’s making me think I will never be free of Tubi.

Mario (Blair Anthony Hall) is married to Chloe (Tatiana Le’Joy) but is sleeping with Kelsey (Najah Bradley). When Chloe gets pregnant, he doesn’t break up with Kelsey but he moves the family to Atlanta. Of course, Kelsey follows him. She is not willing to give up on their relationship.

Amazingly, this is one of the better Tubi movies. There were a few times when I didn’t know if Kelsey was going to kill someone or just walk away. And that makes a good thriller movie. Keeping you on the edge of your seat. Granted, I also spent a lot of the movie telling Mario that none of this would have happened if he just kept it in his pants. He may be the main character but he’s also the real bad guy.

Rating: Just enough psycho to be dangerous

Live Stream From Hell | Halloween 2026

While my husband and I were bouncing around the non-tubi streaming providers, we came across Livestream From Hell on Amazon Prime. Let’s talk about that.

Kevin Hart wants to open his brand up a bit more and become a streamer. For his first 24-hour livestream, he invites Kai Cenat and Druski to join him. Of course, there are a bunch of other celebrities and streamers that stop by as well. But when people start dropping dead, it’s up to Kevin, Kai and Druski to not only hide the bodies but also figure out who is killing all of their friends.

My favorite type of horror movies are horror comedies. While this one is a little over the top with the overacting, I think it should be expected from these three. There were a few times where I was anxiously waiting to see who was going to kill next. And, of course, it’s funny to see Kai and Druski trying to shove bodies in trash cans. Is it a comedic masterpiece? No. But it is a fun way to spend a Saturday night.

Rating: I hope the sequel actually happens

V/H/S Mixtape | Halloween 2026

I took a much needed break from Tubi to watch the annual V/H/S release. This one is V/H/S Mixtape.

Each movie in the V/H/S series has a different throughline that is supposed to bind the stories together. The throughline for this one was GWAR, the heavy metal/art project band. I’m not a fan of the band, though they usually bring a smile to my face when I see them in movies. This time around, definitely not a fan. There was no real story to their segments and the endings felt forced when they had to pop in a VHS or cassette tape.

As for the segments themselves, most of them were boring. My favorite was probably the first story: Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, where television producers visit a puppet shop in order to “reimagine” an old children’s show that featured a set of four puppets. The second story, Another Cabin, was a nice piece of stop-motion animation but the story felt…lacking. I’m not sure what it needed…maybe to give voices to the characters? I don’t know. It was just fine.

The rest of the segments all fell flat. Heartbeat was two YouTubers trapped in a sound dampening room in an abandoned Russian military facility. The Music of Mr. Sze should have been the big piece of the series. A college student documents a strange but beautiful violin song he hears playing in the attic above his apartment. But we didn’t get any context on how Mr. Sze was related to the monsters we saw. I think we should have lingered less on the weird guy that had no bearing on the story at all. The Premature Burial was directed by Tobias Forge of the band Ghost. This is set up as a music video. The story is fine, though you may have to watch it more than once to really get the context out of it since it keeps cutting back to shots of the band. Finally, there is Death Tone. This one was just gross. It wanted to be a slasher that lingered on the killings. I kept covering my face.

Of all of the V/H/S movies I’ve watched, this is my least favorite. Last year’s V/H/S Halloween was much better.

Rating: Dance then get the hell out of there

Woman To Woman | Halloween 2026

Tubi lists Woman To Woman as a thriller. I wouldn’t call it a thriller. Then again, most of these tubi movies aren’t the thrillers they claim to be. But this one, in particular? Definitely a drama.

Shirley (Krystal Monique) and her daughter, Angela (Chelsie Sutherland), have been living a good life since Shirley’s husband died. Barbara (Tonja Brown) and her daughter, Erin (Sydni Janeé), have had the opposite experience, even though Shirley’s late husband was also Erin’s father. As a result, Erin is very resentful of Angela. So Erin has some friends kidnap Angela, hoping that Shirley will pay the very large ransom to get her back.

Reading that description, I know it sounds like a thriller. But 90% of this movie is Shirley yelling at everyone who brings up Barbara’s name, Erin yelling at Barbara for being a bad mother and a drunk, and Angela just trying to have a relationship with her newly found sister. To be honest, all of that gets dull real fast. Like, I get being mad at the woman that slept with your husband but, at some point, you just have to get over it. Or, at the very least, be less mad about it. Screaming at everyone isn’t going to get you very far.

Rating: How can it be woman to woman if one woman won’t talk to the other?

Give Me Back My Baby | Halloween 2026

Give Me Back My Baby may be the first Tubi movie that isn’t given away by the title. I’m not sure if that is good or bad…

When Olivia (Robyn Rose) has a miscarriage, she turns to surrogacy as a means to have a baby. Thankfully, her former college roommate, Morgan (Bella Chadwick), has offered to be her surrogate. Everything seems to be going well. Or has Olivia turned a blind eye to the trouble that she let in?

I am so grateful that this movie isn’t awful. It still has a few flaws but it is much better than some of the other movies I’ve watched this season. One of the biggest problems is that it is a little difficult to keep track of the timeline. We see Morgan’s belly get bigger but, beyond that, there are only a few clues to tell us how much time has passed. And sometimes those clues don’t seem to match up with things the characters say. But, if you can look beyond the wacky timeline, the movie overall isn’t too bad. The twist at the end is a little interesting but I wish there were a few more clues about it through the rest of the movie. It felt a little jarring. Overall, not a terrible watch.

Rating: So many babies, so little time

Unrequited | Halloween 2026

Unrequited was such a bad movie that I don’t even want to talk about it. I’ll try to do my best to give you some sort of opinion on it.

Cassandra (Zulay Henao) has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital. In order to return to society, she gets a job as a hotel housekeeper. When she falls in love with Erik (Flex Alexander), a bartender at the hotel and the hotel manager’s husband, things start to get messy.

I really don’t have anything good to say about this movie. The script was bad, the acting was bad, the plot was bad, the twist at the end was bad. It was just bad. I’m hoping this is the worst of the movies I’ll watch for the Halloween season. To be honest, I’m half tempted to give up on Tubi movies altogether. Thankfully, I think I only have a small handful left.

Rating: Unwatchable

I Didn't Do It | Halloween 2026

This is going to be a weird review because I Didn’t Do It is basically Rockabye with a different ending. I think maybe the writers are running out of ideas.

Billy Turner (Jackie Long) is a hot-headed detective. When a livestream showing his daughter, Samantha’s (Victoria Nuckles), suicide, he refuses to believe she actually took her own life and rages his way through the case to find the truth.

Where Rockabye was interesting, I Didn’t Do It falls flat. This detective, who is getting reprimanded in the very first scene of the movie for going too far, spends more time at his house drinking than actually doing any sort of police work. Sure, some people may say this is because he’s “too close to the case” so he can’t work on it. But not only is he set up as a rule breaker, he gets permissions from higher ups to investigate. I got so frustrated by this movie. If we want him to be a rebel cop, let him be a rebel cop and actually act like one. Instead, he just yells at everyone for no reason. Oh, and the twist is stupid. Go watch Rockabye instead.

Rating: No one did anything

Rockabye | Halloween 2026

I think we’re about halfway through the Chris Stokes movies. Today we’re looking at Rockabye, a movie about family and the dark secrets within.

Christine’s (Annie Ilonzeh) father’s death was ruled a suicide. However, she knows that he was murdered. As she digs into his death, his close friends and former co-workers also begin committing suicide. The secret surrounding all of them is much darker than Christine ever imagined.

Rockabye is probably one of the better movies I have watched recently. And that is mostly because the story was actually interesting. Christine follows some fairly logical leads to find out what happened to her father and the twist isn’t all that fantastical. Sure, it’s a little bit over the top but the basics of the secret are things that happen in the real world. And that makes the story worth watching. It’s movies like this that keep me going through the rest of the season. I hope there are more to come.

Rating: Time to side-eye all the men in your life

Night Shift | Halloween 2026

If you have been with me since the beginning of my Christmas reviews, you will remember that in 2018 I banned the Marvista (or Mar Vista or MarVista) production company from my blog because their movies were so terrible. I have now found that most of these mediocre Tubi movies have been made by the same guy - Christopher B. Stokes. He tends to write, produce, and direct them, which means he doesn’t have a lot of people reigning him in when a bad decision is made. At least not all of his movies are bad. Let me tell you about Night Shift.

Deborah (Apryl Jones) is an out-of-work security guard who just found out she is pregnant. When her brother, Jimmy (Anton Peeples), asks her to cover his night shift as a security guard at a high end art gallery, she reluctantly agrees. What she doesn’t know is that a group of criminals are trying to steal the jewels from one of the art pieces she is supposed to protect.

Night Shift is a little uneven. There are slow parts where Deborah is just walking around doing nothing but then there are some actiony-type scenes too. Unfortunately, the actiony-type scenes tend to be a lot of standing around waving guns and yelling at each other. Yes, there are some other scenes that are done really well. It would be nice if there was a little more oomph to the action scenes. Something that would make me believe that Deborah is unhinged enough to hit someone at her previous job. If Deborah was a little more badass…a little more Gamora (from Guardians of the Galaxy) or Sarah Connor from The Terminator…this movie would have been so much better.

Rating: I would also like to take a 3-hour nap