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WELCOME TO THE GRINDHOUSE

Someone’s Knocking at the Door - Click here to read our review of Chad Ferrin’s “excellent surreal and hallucinatory film that makes you want to stay away from drugs and never answer your door again.”

The Back Room - Click here to read our review of Tim Stover’s “depraved baseball bat to the face,” which is otherwise known as The Back Room.

THE QUEST FOR 1,000 LIFETIMES

LANCE HENRIKSEN

We recently had the chance to chat with Lance Henriksen, who soon will be seen in Nicholas Gyeney’s sci-fi thriller “The Penitent Man.” Henriksen talks time travel, the future, why he wants to live a 1,000 lives, making mini boats and rubber fish with James Cameron, and what goal he has yet to check off his list of accomplishments. Click here for the Q&A.

WHO WATCHES THE ROACH MAN?

ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO!

He’s an accidental sensation - sort of the super hero who couldn’t that resiliently keeps chugging along. He’s Super Undead Doctor Roach.

Having previously caught the eye of celebrity blogger Robin Leach and invaded odd underground and bondage events, the crowd-pleasing short film is now online. See it now at SuperUndeadDoctorRoach.com via Vimeo.

Edited, produced, written & directed by Chad Clinton Freeman (Killer Biker Chicks), the short film was originally a seven-minute 48 Hour Film Project in April of 2009.

Starring Derek Houck (Silent Night, Zombie Night) as the short’s title character, the film went on to screen at the Arizona Underground Film Festival. The 13-minute director's cut of Super Undead Doctor Roach screened in March at Xanadu Las Vegas, a science fiction, fantasy, horror, fetish and bondage convention for adults only.

“It’s 48 Hour Film Project season again,” Freeman said. “I thought putting the short online would be a fun way to celebrate both Dr. Roach and the project as a whole, as well as the recent success of my first ever film festival - PollyGrind.”

The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, an international event predominantly known as PollyGrind, screened 13 features and more than 31 shorts, trailers and music videos over the course of five days in May. The event’s highlight was a standing room only sellout of Dead Hooker in a Trunk. Freeman is currently looking for sponsors, advertisers, donors, etc. to make sure the second installment of the PollyGrind is even bigger and better.

As for Super Undead Doctor Roach, Freeman says he hopes people watch it, send him feedback and rate it on Vimeo, as well as IMDb. Although there have been talks of expanding it into a feature, Freeman says he is currently developing other projects, including The Wacky World of William Wheaton, Area 86, Radioactive Zombie Hookers, and Parabella Nigel: Saiko Saikik Witch Bitch.

“I’ll say this, I don’t think we have seen the end of him,” Freeman said. “He’s proven to be quite the survivor. Madonna once likened herself to a cockroach and said ‘you just can't get rid of me.’ I think the same can be said about Super Undead Doctor Roach.”

WHAT WOULD WHEATON DO?

WORLD OF WHEATON

The Wacky World of William Wheaton, previously only a column about grindhouse movies of the porno and horror variety, will soon be turned into a feature legnth documentary by Polly Staffle Films. Expect the project to be an epic docu-horror-trashumentary on the extremely low budget end. More details will be shared as things develop. In the meantime, check out Wheaton’s latest articles, including reviews of Halloween 3, Ghoulies 3 and 4, Let My Puppets Come and The Beast, right here.

CLASH OF THE TITANS

UNDER REVIEW

“Clash of the Titans” is not only amazing, it’s easily the best film I have seen since (Zack) Snyder’s masterpiece “300.” Click here for thr full review.

THE POLLIES

AND THE WINNERS ARE

Sandra Bullock became the first person to be recognized by the Razzies and the Academy Awards in the same weekend, and Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for best director. But there was also a first at the fifth annual Pollies. What was it? Check out the 2010 Pollies here to find out.

POLLYGRIND

THE POLLY STAFFLE GRINDHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL

PollyStaffle.com is happy to announce it’s first ever movie fest. The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Film Festival will be held at the Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas this coming May. The event, which will take place May 13, 14, 15 and 16, is going to consist of four days of programming in the tradition of grindhouse theaters with double features each day, bookended by trailers and music videos. Visit the festival site to enter your film. More news to come as the event draws closer.

2000-2009

POLLYSTAFFLE.COM NAMES 50 FAVORITE FILMS OF THE DECADE

So even though this site has only been around since 2006 and I did way too much slacking this year, I decided to come up with a list of my favorite 50 films of the decade. What made the list and, more importantly, what topped the list? Here is a hint, not the movie the above still was taken from. Still interested? Click here and find out in a special feature I call Demons and Human Sacrifices. - CCF

FEATURED FILMMAKERS!

Q&A

Jordan Yale Levine - He’s been called “the hardest worker in Hollywood.” We call the 24-year-old Kid Money. Click here for words of advice from the successful executive producer of nearly 10 indie films.

Craig McIntyre - The make up and special effects guru is getting ready to unleash “A Few Screws Loose,” his directorial debut, on the world. Click here for the interview.

Keith Mosher - Click here to find out all about the mailman’s debut movie “One Long Day,” a Las Vegas indie action film that is taking the internet by storm.

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MORE MOVIES!

UNDER REVIEW

Stockholm Syndrome - Special guest reviewer Ken Kupstits says “Enough” in this ThugaView of Ryan Cavalline’s latest film on our blog WhatUpThug.com. K.K. calls it “one of the most brutalizing experiences ever set to celluloid.”

My Bloody Valentine 3D - ThugaView of this 3D remake is on our blog WhatUpThug.com. Check it out to see why we say: When it’s all said and done, the script is nothing more than a rip-off of just about every episode of “Scooby Doo” you saw as a kid.

Amusement - No one likes to be seen as a joke. Even clowns, jesters, comedians and Joe Pesci’s character Tommy DeVito in “Goodfellas” want people laughing with them - not at them. “Amusement” is the story of a demented kid with an ugly sense of humor that got laughed at and not with. The kid, never referred to by name and dubbed “The Laugh” on IMDb.com, is sent away to a mental institution and forgotten about by his peers. He grows up to be a sadistic killer. Now an adult, he looks to cause harm to three girls – Tabitha, Shelby and Lisa - that didn’t get him as a child.

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