POLLYGRIND DAY 2

OCTOBER 9

ZOOEY AND ADAM
Noon
LAS VEGAS PREMIERE
Sean Garrity, 2009, Canada, 83 minutes, experimental drama / mumblecore

Cast: Tom Keenan and Daria Puttaert

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Sean Garrity has been called "one of Canada’s most imaginative independent filmmakers." His latest effort is a controversial feature that is splitting audiences everywhere.

 Zooey and Adam are a happy couple, trying to have a baby. But everything changes after a horrific event. Haunting and emotionally devastating, some festivals have refused to screen the film on the grounds that it is too contentious.

One step beyond microcinema, this is an example of something the filmmaker calls “Solo Cinema.” The crew is one person, the actors have no idea what the script is, and are surprised on-camera with events, to which they react with absolute authenticity. Solo Cinema explores the grey area between fiction and documentary, by crafting a series of chronological situations, putting actors in those situations, and documenting what they do. 

“An unabashedly serious film dealing with truly adult issues… Brave and Thought Provoking… gives the viewer the sense that real lives are being lived, not just acted” - James Adams, The Globe and Mail

“Raw, Authentic, Emotionally Intense“ - Lindsey Ward, Toronto Sun

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Playing with: 
Music Video - What Goes Around Comes Around by Mir (Pardis Parker)
Short - Two Lives for Antonio Espenoza (Caio Dandrea / Rodrigo Fonseca)
Short - Kuriosity Killz (Trey McGriff)
Short - Digging Up Demons (Daniel Chandia)

25K

3 p.m.
LAS VEGAS PREMIERE
Billy Chase Goforth, 80 minutes, 2010, Oxford, Mississppi, hixploitation / comedy
Cast: Houston Nutt III, Johnny McPhail, Billy Chase Goforth, Stephen Donnelly and Alyssa Beasley

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Two bail recovery agents encounter drug runners, corrupt cops, a beautiful woman and other trouble when they find a treasure map promising $25,000.  A homage to 70's southern drive-in films, 25K is a guilty pleasure full of guns and over the top characters. 

"A true b-movie masquerading as a b-movie. It's awesome." -Mark Bell, FilmThreat.com

"I loved it. Down and dirty... A really cool style and look." -Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller

Playing with: 
Music Video - Cemetery Pogo by The Secretions (Jonathan Morken)
Short - My Friend Root Rot (Paul von Stoetzel)

THE SUMMER OF MASSACRE
5 p.m.
LAS VEGAS PREMIERE
Darin Wood, 2011, Sacramento, 98 minutes, gore
Cast: Ted Alderman, Jerry G. Angelo, Rod Barroso, Scott Barrows, Tim A. Colley, Kenneth J. Hall, Kimmarie Johnson, John Karyus, and Brinke Stevens

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Herschell Gordon Lewis protege Joe Castro helms the creation of this blood epic. Castro uses computer generated technology to up the ante of your standard 'deranged maniac kills innocent teens one by one' to heights no one every imagined. In the tradition of Castro's life work, he gives us, once again, a truly original experience: the first ever slasher anthology. Emmy award winning editor Steven Escobar and Cult Movies Magazine editor, SCHROEDER bring Castro's bizarre style to life in this, over the top, splatter fest.

Hold onto your barf bag. You might need it by the end of the film as you view the slicing, tearing, ripping, gashing, stabbing, impaling, beating, squishing, choking, burning, staking, cutting, hacking, dismembering, decapitating, hanging, bashing, dicing, chopping, crushing, pounding, spearing, scalping, suffocating, deaths the psychotic serial killers hand out to anyone that is in their path of vengeance. So prepare yourself for a body count so high, so bloody, so shocking, it is unlike anything have ever seen in the history of slasher films.

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Playing with:
Music Video - Big Mama by Demolition Disco (Maximilian Gerlach)
Short - Roid Rage (Ryan Lightbourn)

THE SUPER
7:30 p.m.
LAS VEGAS PREMIERE
Evan Makrogiannis and Brian Weaver, 2010, New York, crime / exploitation
Cast: Demetri Kallas, Lynn Lowry, Ron Braunstein, Manoush, Ruby Larocca, Edgar Move and Brandon Slagle

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George Rossi, who immigrated to the U.S. and served in the Vietnam war, is now a superintendent of a Queens apartment building. He finds himself quickly slipping into a depraved world which is fueled by the tenants of the building. 

"The Super harkens back to Maniac with some Taxi Driver and psychological horror thrown in for good measure...Add to that the sometimes dark and gritty look of New York, and it's a great slice of indie grindhouse." - ArrowInTheHead.com

"...a no-holds-barred homage to the down-and-dirtiest horror/exploitation cinema of decades past." - Fangoria

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Playing with: 
Trailer - Wacko Jacko (Moe Irvin)
Short - Thy Kill Be Done (Greg Hanson / Casey Regan)

15 TILL MIDNIGHT
10 p.m.
LAS VEGAS PREMIERE
Woldgang Meyer, 2010, New York, 99 minutes, sci-fi

Cast: Brandon Slagle, Dee Martin, Devanny Pinn, Andrew Roth and Andrea Chen

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Lukas Reyes is trapped in a seemingly endless loop between parallel existences, one being occupied by his spouse Sera, and another being occupied by a relation from another life Nara. As worlds seem to begin colliding and further bleeding into one another, he finds himself pursued by a group of shadow men known as "The Knowers." The common thread between everything being a significance with the time 11:45 - fifteen minutes until midnight.

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Playing with: 
TanyaX (Dean McKendrick)

THE UH-OH SHOW
Midnight

LAS VEGAS PREMIERE

Herschell Gordon Lewis, 2009, St. Petersburg, Florida, gore
Cast: Brooke McCarter, Nevada Caldwell, Krista Grotte, Joel D. Wynkoop, Kenny Rogers, Bruce Blauer, Jarrett Ricker and Jack Amos

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Herschell Gordon Lewis, known for Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, Wizard of Gore, The Gore Gore Girls and so many great exploitation classics, is back in the directors' chair at 80-years-old. Jill Burton is a reporter dead set on getting the scoop behind The Uh-Oh! Show, the gory TV sensation that's sweeping the nation. Get the answer right and win piles of dough, get it wrong and Uh-Oh! it's off with your arms, legs, or more. Fred Finagler, the shows mastermind, feeds the fans depraved cravings by launching an even bloodier reality spectacular filled with Big Bad Wolf attacks, Hansel & Gretel-style torture massacres, and mauling mutilations from the Three Bears and a gore-crazed Goldilocks. It's just the type of prime time violence Fred needs to keep the ratings high.

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Playing with: 
Short - Feather (David Ian McKendry)