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The first promo spot for the Polly Staffle Grindhouse Film Festival is online.

Check it out below:

Just as resilient as any cockroach, Super Undead Doctor Roach just won’t seem to go away.

Edited, produced, written & directed by Chad Clinton Freeman (Killer Biker Chicks), the short was originally a seven-minute 48 Hour Film Project in April of 2009. The film went on to screen at the Arizona Underground Film Festival in November and now makes it way to a bondage convention in Las Vegas.

The 13-minute director’s cut of Super Undead Doctor Roach will screen March 28 at noon at Xanadu Las Vegas, which is toting itself as a science fiction, fantasy, horror, fetish and bondage convention for adults only.

Derek Houck (Silent Night, Zombie Night) stars as the short’s title character and has a supporting cast that features Henry Clarke (S4), Scream Queen guest Rachel Grubb (13 Hours in a Warehouse), as well as Juliane Price, Reagan Pfifer, Jason Kelly, Daniel Nagelhout, Laura Moore, Kristine Wright, Ken Kupstis and Miranda Humphrey.

For more information on the convention, click here.

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.

<We interrupt your normal blog to present the following message from Markowitz the Thug Armadillo>

What up thugs?

Mark-O-WitZ that thug ya luv here.

This past weekend I got to kick it with one of my old school hustla home fries, who is now a bad ass new jack Hollywood filmmaker. His name is Sean Cain (used to be Don SeanCo in da hood) and he came to town for the Las Vegas premiere of his tight Christmas movie “Silent Night, Zombie Night.” He brought some other Hollywood types with him, including the movie’s producer Wes “Side” Laurie, actor Luke Y. Thompson and actor Jack Forcinito. (Heather Wixson from DreadCentral.com was up in the house too, yo!)

I ain’t going to spill no beans on any of the extracurricular, paranormal or paranoial activities that took place over the weekend, but know this: once a thug means always a thug. And this post is about “Silent Night, Zombie Night” anyway.

So here is a little review for you people out there in hopes that you support my boy’s movie and make him rich and famous like that old guy with the big glasses that makes a lot of zombie movies.

Now, first of all, this is not a Christian film. I know. I know. I thought it would be going in, but nah, it ain’t about no baby Jesus and his death and resurrection. This movie is more reality based than that noise.

Peep this, two cops get stuck in a house with a shorty. She’s fine, yo. Zombies all around.

Cop #1 is a meanie Grinch mofo (Jack Forcinito)  and Cop#2 is his sneaky snake partner (Andy Hopper). They both wanna sex shorty (Nadine Stenovitch) up all day and night.

Now instead of giving away too much, the following is a play-by-play in Twitter style:

Arrrrrrrr! #Zombies @VHFilms

Cops head to the crib #ReservoirDogs style.

Mad thug zombiez attack. #OMG @LYTRules @DerekHouck @PollyStaffle

BANG! BANG! #Gunshots

Awww. There’s Santa. #Christmas

Yo, gimmie some presents @SantaClaus

Santa looks sick. Is he a… @Questions

BANG! #Gunshot

Oh well, Christmas is canceled I guess. RIP @SantaClaus

Fast ones are dumb. #zombies

Slow ones are dumber. #zombies

BA BOOM! #BaseballBat2DaHead

Pretty X-Mas lights #Christmas

Here comes dude from #The DevilsRejects, directed by @RWZombie

It’s my homie #LewTemple. Adam Banjo is all hold up in an attic. What’s up Lew?

More zombies. #horror

Bang! #Bullet2DaHead.

Here comes Felissa Rose from #SleepAwayCamp. Hey Cutie!

And there’s Vernon Wells from #MadMax2 #TheRoadWarrior

LOL #FunnyAssStuff

Drama for yo mamma. #BizarreLoveTriangle #DontYouJustHateThat

No! Don’t do it! Damn it Lew! You gonna make me cry. #BooHoo #LewTemple

Frying pan #WackyPotentialMurderWeapons … cause I could just kill a man! Scratch that #zombie

Awww. That is just sad, but also makes my heart swell.  #KillMeSoIDontEatYou

Credits, yo. #TheEnd

Now as you can see from my review, this ain’t yo typical zombie movie and it ain’t yo typical Christmas movie. It’s a love story that takes place around Christmas and features zombies, ya feel me? And yes, there are both fast (Zack Snyder’s “Dawn of the Dead”) and slow zombies (That old guy with the big glasses’ “Dawn of the Dead”).

Also, it’s called “Silent Night, Zombie Night,” but ain’t nothing silent about it. It’s more like “Loud Blood Curdling Scream Night, Zombie Night.”

And be warned: this movie is not for infants. Santa don’t eat no brains or anything, but he ain’t eating cookies either. He’s a big and mean Tor Johnson looking thug (Chris Gabriel) and he gets rockabye babyed in broad day light.

So, in summarizing; “Silent Night, Zombie Night” gets two claws up. It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s bloody and it’s different. So, check it out, yo! It has already played in London, New Mexico and now Las Vegas. Next up is its Los Angeles premiere.

Keep up with the film at SNZNfilm.com or on Facebook.

Merry Christmas and to all a good night,

Markowitz

P.S. Below is a pic of me with “Don SeanCo” Cain. Check this gallery on Facebook for more photos of me at the event.

<We interrupt your normal blog to present the following message from Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo>

What up thugs and thugettes?

It’s that male grey you love to hate and hate to love, dropping mad science on yo head, hitting harder than an SUV crashing into a tree with more finesse than a golf club upside the head. Ya heard?

I admit that it has been about a minute since you last heard me spit. I can explain. You see, I used to blog from the Best Buy by my old house when a McDonald’s dumpster was my place of residence. But Best Buy got hip to my computer use and gave me the boot.

Then I moved close to a library. I thought I’d be able to log on everyday and Spacebook, Tweezle, as well as do some blogdiddyblogdotcomacoing.

Wrong my friend.

They said I owed fines. Something about a few overdue and unreturned CDs and DVDs.

But feel me, I know I didn’t check out no damn “Horhey Potters and the Giant Sausage” or no “Twilights of the Glittery Fangless” or “Handscock with Big Willie.” I admit I never returned that 2Pac “Greatest Hits” CD. They gots me there, but those DVDs. Nah. This Armadillo don’t play dat.

But guess what? I found out my baby brother Prince had borrowed my library card. (I would like to submit Exhibit A: “Photo of Prince with my library card” into evidence, your honor.)

And guess what else? Sitting under his bed were those 3 damn movies. So after he went to bed one night I tried to snatch em from his infant ass.

Prince woke up.

He wouldn’t let me have the DVDs. He called me a thief.

He rented 3 DVDs on my library card, never returned them and now he is calling me a thief?

Long story short, I sat him straight and explained that my library card was not a credit card and he had not purchased the films, but instead had borrowed them and that he must return them because he is breaking the law.

“But I want to watch them,” Prince squealed.

I shouted back: “Then download them for free online like everybody else!”

“Nope!” was his response.

I know what you are thinking: Prince has a computer?

Yes he does. Or shall I say did. I traded him the 3 movies for his Leapfrog Clickstart and that’s how I am coming at ya today. Boo yah!!!

Now, on to the point of this post…

You see that photo! And the one below!

It’s sickening ain’t it.

Do you see what I see?

What do you see?

I’ll tell ya what I see - Santa Clause has shot and killed Casper and thrown him in the trash.

That’s right, ya’ll, we are just one month removed from Halloween and into the trash the decorations go.

While doing some trash digging in my hood, I snapped that photo.

I guess before New Year’s Day the Baby Thug Jesus will get tossed into the garbage as well.

Out with the old and in with the new, huh?

That makes me so sick, yo.

Anyway, I was going to post some more about how pissed I am, but I gotta go throw up now.

Out,
Marko

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Parabella Nigel: Saiko Saikik Witch Bitch teaser/pitch from Chad Clinton Freeman on Vimeo.

Moviesonline.ca reports on the new project from Polly Staffle Films:

“A teaser trailer for ‘Parabella Nigel: Saiko Saikik Witch Bitch’ has been posted online… The project is being described by writer and director Chad Clinton Freeman as a slasher noir about a psychic that may or may not be a serial killer. “

Read more here.

Arrow In the Head says: “Looks like there could be a new champion of unabashed B-movie sleaze! I mean, with such titles as KILLER BIKER CHICKS, SUPER UNDEAD DOCTOR ROACH, AMATEUR PORNSTAR KILLER 3-D: INSIDE THE HEAD, & GINGERBREAD MAN 3: SATURDAY NIGHT CLEAVER in your resume – you’re pretty much quickly climbing the ranks of cinematic schlock… And keeping the theme alive is Chad Clinton Freeman’s newest project entitled PARABELLA NIGEL: SAIKO SAIKIK WITCH BITCH.”

Read more here.

And help fund the project here on Kickstarter.com.

The vampires of the independent horror film “Live Evil” invaded the Underground Screening Room at the Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas around Halloween time. Now William Powell’s comic shop and grindhouse theater hosts the Las Vegas premiere of Sean Cain’s “Silent Night, Zombie Night.”

The event takes place December 5 at 8 p.m. and costs $5.

Cain, who Fangoria calls a “Indie Horror Specialist,” will be on hand for a Q&A and autograph signing session after the film, as will producer Wes Laurie, and co-stars Chris Gabriel (”One Long Day,” “Devotion,” “S4″) and Luke Y. Thompson (”Wicked Lake,” “Mad Cowgirl”) .

Oh yeah, I’ll be there too.

So come and celebrate independent cinema, Christmas and zombies all in one night.

And see me as a zombie get shot down by Scream Queen Felissa Rose (Angela in the original “Sleepaway Camp”).

Oh, you want to know what the movie is about?

Well, here is the film’s official synopsis: “A week before Christmas, a viral outbreak turns the citizens of Los Angeles into the feral undead. On the brink of breaking up with both his wife and partner, L.A.P.D. officer Frank Talbot finds himself trapped in a apartment with them both. As death closes in they try not only to survive, but work around the fact both men love the same woman.”

Aside from Rose, the film stars Jack Forcinito, Andy Hopper, Nadine Stenovitch, Lew Temple (”The Devil’s Rejects,” “Trailer Park of Terror”) and Vernon Wells (”Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior”).

Others in the film include Derek Houck (”Super Undead Doctor Roach”), Shane Ryan (”Amateur Porn Star Killer”), Chad Meisenheimer (”Broke”), Kai Lanette (”Warning!!! Pedophile Released”), Jordan Lawson (”Someone’s Knocking at the Door”) and more.

Check out the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3o30FcuXbs

Located at the northwest corner of the Commercial Center (right off Sahara on 2520 State State, Las Vegas, NV 89109), the Sci-Fi Center is a comic book and film geek’s paradise. The store houses a true grindhouse movie theater dubbed “The Underground Screening Room” that showcases arthouse, horror, cult, science fiction, fantasy and independent cinema not usually available at traditional theaters in Sin City.

If you are coming Saturday, please RSVP for the event on Facebook or Meetup.

And for more info, check out the official “Silent Night, Zombie Night” and Sci-Fi Center sites.

See ya there,
Chad Clinton Freeman

What:
Full Moon and Charles Band Double Feature
“Skull Heads” and “Puppet Master”

When:
November 14, 7:30 p.m.

Price:
$5 per person

Where:
The Underground Screening Room @ The Sci Fi Center
2520 State St. Commercial Center (Off of Sahara)
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-792-GEEK (4335)

First up on the Full Moon Features double bill is Charles Band’s latest release - “Skull Heads.” This 2009 film was written, produced and directed by Charles Band and stars Robin Sydney. The film resolves around an emotionally backward young woman who lives in a castle in Italy with her mother and her aggressive father, along with a dark secret hidden within.

That will be followed by the cult classic “Puppet Master.” This 1989 gem was written by Charles Band and Kenneth J. Hall and directed by David Schmoeller. The stars here are Blade, Jester, Pinhead, Tunneler and a few other toys that come to life and become a gang of little terrors. They may be small, but their appetite for murder is monstrous.

Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie master Charles Band. The 9th in the Puppet Master series - “Puppet Master: Axis of Evil” is slated to be released in 2010.

Located at the northwest corner of the Commercial Center (right off Sahara on 2520 State State, Las Vegas, NV 89109), the Sci-Fi Center is a comic book and film geek’s paradise. Owned by William Powell, the store houses a true grindhouse movie theater dubbed “The Underground Screening Room” that showcases arthouse, horror, cult, science fiction, fantasy and independent cinema not usually available at traditional theaters in Sin City. The center recently held the Las Vegas premiere of the vampire film “Live Evil” and in December will premiere Sean Cain’s “Silent Night, Zombie Night” and welcome Doug Bradley (”Hellraiser”) back for his third straight annual appearance.

For more info, check out the Full Moon and Sci-Fi Center websites.

“THE WITCHES HAMMER” (2006)

Starring: Claudia Coulter, Jason Tompkins, Andrew Cullum, Stephanie Beacham, Tom Dover, Harold Gasnier, Tina Barnes & George Anton
Written & Directed by James Eaves

Polly Staffle ThugaView Rating: ***

With vampires, circus freaks, priests, ninjas, demons and witches all vying for an ancient book, an undead female assassin is the only hope mankind has in defeating evil. She is a gun-slinging, sword-wielding, government-created vampire named Rebecca, and the book, known as “The Witches Hammer,” has the power to unleash the dark souls of the damned. Yes, this British film has quite a bit going for it and when it’s all said and done is quite the guilty little pleasure.

Fans of low budget production companies like Tempe Video and Full Moon Features will dig the campiness and cheesiness of this film, but anyone expecting a vampire epic like “Underworld,” be warned; this isn’t even on par with “BloodRayne.” But it doesn’t really try to be. And while its promotional artwork makes it appear it is a babe-n-blade martial arts film a la “Kill Bill” or “UltraViolet,” it doesn’t really try to be that either. It dabbles with both “bite” and “fight,” but at its heart, “The Witches Hammer” is an action comedy.

Rebecca, played by Claudia Coulter (sort of a cross between Jill Hennessy and Tiffany Shepis), is viciously attacked by a vampire. She awakes to find herself a part of Project 571. A glass of blood and a glass of water are placed in front of her and she is told to choose which drink she would like. She chooses the blood and drinks it down. Rebecca learns she is a government prototype - a genetically produced vampire. At first she resists her body’s transformations, but soon she finds herself enjoying kicking evil fang-toothed freaks’ asses.

While Rebecca is out on Case #38, the humans behind Project 571 are slaughtered. Rebecca is then introduced to the one-eyed and C3PO-like witches – Madeline (Stephanie Beacham) and Edward (Jon Sedgwick) - that head Project 572. The plot thickens as Rebecca joins their search for “The Witches Hammer” in order to take down the “cool as ice” master vampire Hugo Renoir (Tom Dover) and his wheelchair-bound grandmother (Beryl Nesbitt).

Back stories on “The Witches Hammer,” as well as Kitanya (Magda Rodriguez), the very first witch and author of the evil book, and the undead heavyweight Charlotte Apon (Sally Reeve), who was infected with tainted vampire meat bought on the black market play out as the adventure unfolds. Bad special effects from the 80s return as vampires implode, backs are stabbed, heads roll and the evil little guy Oscar (Jason Tompkins) gets roughed up with a frying pan upside the head.

No, this film doesn’t take itself too serious and you shouldn’t either. As long as it is watched with that in mind, it has enough fun packed into it to make it enjoyable. So the next time you’re at the rental store and see someone reaching for “Twilight,” feel free to scream “Stop! Hammer time.”

- CCF, Octorber 2009

Here is Homer’s classic story as a travelogue across the USA starring Texas rock singer/songwriter Kanude.

The short was shot in September 2009 in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texasd, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia.

Odyssean Travelin’ Blues

Kanude|MySpace Music Videos

Just in time for Halloween, PollyStaffle.com presents the Las Vegas premiere of “Live Evil” with a free screening at the Sci-Fi Center.

The one time only showing of this independent vampire action film, starring Tim Thomerson (”Near Dark,” “Trancers”), Ken Foree (”Dawn of the Dead,” “Devil’s Rejects”) and Scream Queen Tiffany Shepis (”Chainsaw Cheerleaders,” “Nightmare Man”), will be October 30th at 9 p.m.

The event will also feature giveaways, and Q&A and autograph sessions with the cast and crew.

Directed by Jay Woelfel and produced by Mark Terry, “Live Evil” tells the story of vampires having trouble surviving in a world where the blood supply has become polluted by drugs and STDs.

“I am basically a part time resident of Las Vegas, especially during football season,” Terry said. ” One of my goals was to have a screening here because if there was one city in the world that would ‘get’ this movie it would be Vegas.”

The film gets a limited theatrical run starting September 18 via Monogram Releasing and will play 300 screens. It won’t be seen in Vegas until Oct. 30 and makes it way to DVD and VOD (video on demand) on November 3.

“Live Evil” also stars Lee Perkins (”KatieBird*Certifiable Crazy Person”), Chuck Williams (”Bubba Ho-tep”), filmmakers Jeff Burr (”Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III”) and Sean Cain (”Silent Night, Zombie Night”), Scream Queen Elissa Dowling (”Amateur Porn Star Killer 3D: Inside the Head”), Porn Star Jenny Hendrix (”Not Three’s Company XXX”) and more.

Fangoria Magazine has called “Live Evil” one of the top three low budget indie films they have caught this year and the St. Petersburg Times has said it is a cut above “the usual splatter flicks.”

Located at the northwest corner of the Commercial Center (right off Sahara on 2520 State State, Las Vegas, NV 89109), the Sci-Fi Center is a comic book and film geek’s paradise. Owned by William Powell, the store houses a true grindhouse movie theater dubbed “The Underground Screening Room” that showcases arthouse, horror, cult, science fiction, fantasy and independent cinema not usually available at traditional theaters in Sin City.