Adventures in the Tubi Horror Library: Alpine Lake

Tubi is a free streaming service that features a wide selection of movies and shows that people can access. Sometimes there are hidden gems that are really worth a watch, and sometimes there are movies that are less than great.

I’ve been meaning to just sit back and relax, watch some horror. Maybe it’ll be good. Maybe it’ll be bad! But hopefully, it’ll all be fun.

I watched this first movie on January 22nd, 2026.

Alpine Lake was released in 2020, directed and written by Wayne Johnson. It features a group of college students that go on a weekend getaway to an old horror favorite. That’s right. They go to a cabin in the woods. And someone is out there killing people!

Going into this movie, I didn’t have expectations. I learned a long time ago that a horror movie should be judged as it is on its own and not held up to the same standards of other movies. Alpine Lake feels like a lower passion project by someone that really seems to like horror and having good characters.

The acting is okay in this movie. The main characters seem to have very distinct personalities, and I immediately was rooting for all three of the leading ladies (Seriously, I loved Kat, Amanda, and Monica so so so so much.) All three had the markings of a final girl, and I really had no idea who would make it out at the end. Kat is a MMA fighter (and possibly a car mechanic? This wasn’t clear but I remember her mentioning it) who radiates final girl energy. She’s a bit aggressive, but like in the best way possible. She, like me, hates Travis. Amanda is Travis’s girlfriend, but he treats her like absolute shit. Like there are a few points where I was like “GET HIS ASS” when she’d talk to Travis. And Monica is a law student, and probably had the best portrayal in the movie. She was pretty smart, aside from all the walking through the woods on her own. Travis was an ass in this movie, and was very consistent in how… asshole-y he was. The other main guy was okay to watch, but I have no idea what his name was. It was weird. I had to go looking on the websites to figure out what his name was and I still cannot find it. Was his name Darian?

Despite not know the one character’s name, we got quite a bit of time with these main five actors, and while they weren’t perfect, they seemed fleshed out enough to where I could easily root for them in one way or another.

Some of the shots of the movie were a bit awkward. Like characters would be doing something in one shot, then running away screaming in the next shot. It made it a bit hard to follow, as I am just wondering what the fuck had happened.

I did chuckle a few times during this movie. One quote in particular came from Travis the asshole talking to the pizza guy.

Pizza Guy: “You guys come up here alone?”

Travis: “No, God is with us. God is everywhere.”

I don’t know why, but the delivery caught me by surprise.

Overall, I gave this movie a 4.5 out of 10. The c*nnibalism stuff took me by surprise in a bad way (mostly because I missed the warning at the beginning of the movie.) But this movie has hard. I think certain scenes of the movie fell a bit flat because they either happened off screen entirely or just out of camera frame. But the characters and all the effort that was put in were so endearing. I liked it better than Pitchfork, and if you know my feelings on Pitchfork, you will know how high of praise that is.

I have a list of seventeen other horror movies I am thinking of watching.

So stay tuned.