Creepily amusing black comedy features an aging Hollywood diva (Joan Collins) whose life in the limelight has been a cliche of drugs, alcohol, multiple marriages and promiscuous sex and a television talk show host (Charles Casillo, who also wrote the screenplay) obsessed with movie star memorabilia and actresses of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Casillo proposes writing her biography and to that end invites her up to his house which is a museum dedicated to dead iconic actresses like Marilyn Monroe. Director Matthew J. Pellowski creates a dark and disturbing, uncomfortable atmosphere of dread while still dispensing one line zingers. One can't help but sense where the movie is going but like Halloween, it can be both fun and scary. Collins is excellent as the delusional, at times vulnerable, movie queen who, unlike the audience, can't see what's coming.
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