By Melissa Antoinette Garza THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (1985) was one of my favorite movies growing up. It was a made-for-TV, 1980s, crazy horror musical with vampire witches, pilgrim demons, resurrected werewolves and a zombie little person. You’ve stopped reading this review and just Googled this movie, didn’t you? I […]
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Pretty Poison (1968) – Movie Review **Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins**
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Two crushes for the price of one! Sweet, innocent, charming Anthony Perkins along side minx, fem goddess, starlet Tuesday Weld is enough to get my toes curling before opening credits. PRETTY POISON is all types of 1960s naughty sultriness that makes me swoon aloud. It […]
Zombie High (1987) MOVIE REVIEW *Virginia Madsen, James Wilder, Paul Feig, Richard Cox, Scott Coffey*
By Melissa Antoinette Garza ZOMBIE HIGH (1987) is an overlooked horror comedy that deserves more praise than it gets. It’s silly and strange, but it’s a nice homage to movies like THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975) and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956). The camp 80’s quality to it […]
Evening Primrose (1966) – Horror Musical Review *Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, Dorothy Stickney, Larry Gates*
By Melissa Antoinette Garza What a find this is! EVENING PRIMROSE was an episode of the anthology series ABC STAGE 67. Though it originally aired in color, the only existing copies are from a found print in black-and-white. Upon locating the gem, it was released on DVD in 2010. Currently, […]
Psycho III (1986) – MOVIE REVIEW *Free on Cinemax via Amazon Prime*
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Poor Maureen Coyle (Diana Scrarwid) is a wreck. She was a nun, but just escaped the convent. Now, she is dealing with quite a bit of PTSD trauma from the ordeal. She hitches a ride with dirtbag Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey). He waits until it’s […]
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Movie Review *Free on Cinemax*
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Well, I give the Devil his due, so it would be wrong for me to deny Roger Ebert his. Roger Ebert wrote a good movie. There I said it. Don’t make me say it again! Directed by Russ Meyer, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS […]
Psycho II (1983) MOVIE REVIEW **FREE ON CINEMAX** Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Anthony Perkins was a babe. Norman Bates was one of my first crushes. I still adore him. Oh, how I love this series! PSYCHO II takes place twenty-two years after the original. Norman is finally let out of his mental institution. He’s a fully recovered gent. […]
The Love Witch (2016) – Horror Movie Review – ON AMAZON PRIME
By Melissa Antoinette Garza As a lover of 60’s and 70s horror I wasn’t sure if I’d like this homage or not. As of late, parodies seem to be mean-spirited about the work they are poking fun of. Rather than celebrating camp for the outrageousness it was fully aware […]
A Simple Favor (2018) – Movie Review ****Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Sean Townsend, Paul Feig,
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Welcome back, Paul Feig! You had me at “Starring Anna Kendrick.” In the last year or so, I have just been entranced with her. TABLE 19 (2017) and MR. RIGHT (2015) in particular made me fall in love. When I saw the trailer for this […]
THE NUN (2018) Horror Movie Review **The Conjuring Universe Continues**
By Melissa Antoinette Garza THE NUN (2018) was one of the few new horror films that I was looking forward to seeing. I loved THE CONJURING (2013) and its sequel (2016). I was satisfied with ANNABELLE (2014), but admittedly hated ANNABELLE CREATION (2017). When I saw the trailer for THE […]
Submission (2017) – Drama Movie Review ***Stanley Tucci, Kyra Sedwick, Addison Timlin***
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Pretentious professor Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci)begins this flick by narrating about how horrible his students are. He hates their ideas and suggestions. I love Tucci, but the character reminds me of a douchebag teach that I actually had so I loathe Ted. I despise his […]
The Other Hell (1981) – Movie Review
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Two nuns stand in a Dr. Frankenstein style laboratory within the convent that they work for. They stand beside a nun that has died and they are about to embalm her. She lay naked on a table before them when one sister grabs a knife […]