“Scars of Youth”
Sunday, May 9, 2010 | 12:05 a.m.
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- What: PollyGrind Film Festival
- Where: Sci Fi Center, 2520 State St.; 792-4335
- When: May 12-16
- Cost: Festival passes, $10-$40
Beyond the Sun
Downtown's Sci Fi Center has been home to a number of grindhouse-style movie premieres and showcases over the last few months, many courtesy of local filmmaker and writer Chad Clinton Freeman.
So it's only appropriate that the Center will host an entire festival devoted to underground horror and science-fiction films. Freeman's PollyGrind Film Festival will screen 13 feature films over five days, including such tantalizing titles as Slime City Massacre, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, Orgy of Blood and Vaginal Holocaust. The event also will showcase short films, music videos and trailers, plus appearances from filmmakers and actors.
Freeman picks opening-night film Scars of Youth as a particular highlight of the festival, noting that filmmaker John R. Hand "does horror and sci-fi in a very art-house way."
There's a fine line, certainly, between underground genre weirdness and artistic ambitions, and there's no doubt the festival will do everything possible to blur it.
— Originally published in Las Vegas Weekly
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