Tubi Terrors: Evil Internet Edition
Tubi Terrors is a somewhat reoccurring series about horror movies that can be streamed for free on Tubi.
Death may lurk in the shadows, but it also lurks in technology. All the credit for this edition of Tubi Terrors goes to my boyfriend, who suggested it when he’d scrolled through Tubi and came across a few horror movies surrounding killer technology. Not all the movies listed for this edition deal with demonic pieces of technology, but they all have circumstances that circle back to using technology.
DON’T CLICK
Premiering digitally at FrightFest last year, Don’t Click is a supernatural horror movie that’s about two friends who get sucked into a technological torture chamber after viewing a snuff film.
There were some aspects of this movie that I really enjoyed; the practical effects weren’t bad and I enjoyed the gore. There’s a torture scene that takes place in the chamber that made me a tad squeamish. The snuff film portions took me back to the first time I saw Hostel and The Poughkeepsie Tapes, and had me feeling slightly uncomfortable because of how authentic of it felt from the acting. During the opening credits I screamed because I saw a familiar last name: Skarsgård. Valter Skarsgård, the youngest from the iconic acting family, shows that talent does run in the family with a good performance.
I initially gave it 2 out of 5 stars on Letterboxd, but I’d honestly give it a 2.5 because of Skarsgård and the gore.
DO NOT REPLY
After talking and meeting through a social media app, a young teenager is drugged and kidnapped by a lunatic who keeps her and other victims captive for his virtual reality murders.
While Do Not Reply feels like an R-rated Lifetime movie at times, it is still loads better than Megan is Missing. The dialogue is cringeworthy at times, but the reasoning behind the madman’s torture is kind of interesting. This is another movie that made scream over casting because everyone’s favorite southern vampire from Twilight is in this. Jackson Rathbone not only aged beautifully, but his acting is one of the best parts of this movie. The beginning of Do Not Reply makes no sense though, because once the main character is kidnapped the supporting characters that were introduced are never mentioned again aside from her mother and father.
I give it a 2.5 our of 5 stars for the acting potential that was held back by really bad dialogue.
BEDEVILED
After downloading a Siri like app called Mr. Bedevil to their phones, 5 friends are terrorized by the software that attacks and haunts them as their biggest fears.
Most of my notes I took for this movie were about how awful the dialogue was. One specifically was about how it reminded me of 2007 humor, which isn’t good and doesn’t age well. There was a random sex scene that was awkward and unnecessary. It tried to be scary by putting jump scares throughout which became tiring and predictable within the 45 minutes of the movie. The only redeeming factor I could find was how it was an odd combination between Scream and Countdown, and possibly a homage to it.
2 out of 5 stars for the bad dialogue.
FOLLOWED
Told through various vlogs being screencasted from a laptop, Followed centers around a content creator who goes to an infamously haunted hotel in L.A to hopefully gain subscribers and experience strange phenomena.
I wasn’t a huge fan of this movie at the start. I thought the acting was a tad cringe, and I didn’t really enjoy the writing. However as creepy things started to happen, I became a fan. The scares were probably my favorite part. The acting and writing improves as everything plays out too.
I’d say Followed is an underrated gem, I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars.
BAD IMPULSE
After experiencing a break in, a family man invests in a new high tech home security system only to discover it’s slowly destroying his household.
Bad Impulse is a badly weird, wild ride of a movie. That’s it.
I gave it 1 star out of 5 because Rebecca Black is in it.
