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Luke Goss named Ultimate Badass for The Dead Undead
LUKE GOSS has scooped the Ultimate Badass gong at a newly-launched sci-fi and horror film festival in Las Vegas.
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is a group of human kids on a camping trip.
The two big winners at the festival were Slime City Massacre, a sequel to a gruesome classic from more than twenty years ago, and Dead Hooker In A Trunk, a debut feature from twin sisters that started as a faux trailer.
Greg Lamberson's Slime City Massacre won The Biggest Baddest Mother of the PollyGrind, the top jury award, while Jen and Sylvia Soska's Dead Hooker in a Trunk was voted favourite feature by the audience.
Lamberson said: "I'm thrilled Slime City Massacre won this honour and happily accept it on behalf of everyone who worked on it.
"Some genre-themed film festivals cater more and more to studio films, but the PollyGrind really is a celebration of independent films.
"That's what festivals should be about: exposing people to films that might escape their radar otherwise, not scheduling the same stuff that will be in multiplexes a few months later. I'm proud to have screened at a new festival that has its priorities straight, and the award is very sweet icing on the cake."
"That is absolutely incredible," was Jen Soska's response when she was told of Dead Hooker in a Trunk's win. "I'm speechless and touched. I cannot begin to tell you how honoured we are. This is just the greatest news we could ever hope for."
Slime City Massacre, a sequel to Lamberson's 1988 cult classic Slime City, starred genre favorites Debbie Rochon, Lee Perkins and Brooke Lewis.
PollyGrind judge Everette Hartsoe, the creator of the underground comic book Razor, gave Jen and Sylvia Soska his Bad Girl Award for Dead Hooker in a Trunk, which started off as a fake trailer.
"I was extremely pleased with the quality of all the content I got to program for my startup event," PollyGrind creator Chad Clinton Freeman said. "But Dead Hooker in a Trunk and Slime City Massacre offer so much that it's hard for people not to like at least some aspect of them. They're funny, sexy, absurd and filled with girls, guns and gore just like many of the grindhouse greats."
"The event was a success in every way I could have hoped for," added Freeman. "This was put on in the same spirit as old grindhouse cinema with no budget whatsoever and the horror and indie film communities, as well as genre fans, the Vegas art scene and the media really did their part in supporting us. It definitely was a great start to an annual event."
Freeman says the next PollyGrind is scheduled for May 11-15, 2011.
"The first PollyGrind was pulled off with less than five months of preparations," he said. "So with a full year to plan, promote and develop, I think next year's is going to really be something."
2010 POLLYGRIND WINNERS
PollyGrind Jury Awards:
The Biggest Baddest Mother of the PollyGrind -- Slime City Massacre (Greg
Lamberson)
Best Short Film -- Sis (Deborah Haywood)
Best Music Video -- Hippodome Mime (Ginnetta Correli)
Best Trailer -- Evil Brain From Planet X (Pete Schuermann)
Best Special Showcase -- Creep Creepersin (Features: Orgy of Blood, Vaginal Holocaust, Caged Lesbos A-Go-Go; Trailers: Erection, He, Peeping Blog, The Corporate Cut Throat Massacre, Ding Dong Dead)
Best Use of Nudity/Sexuality -- Vaginal Holocaust (Creep Creepersin)
Best Use of Violence/Gore -- Frat House Massacre (Alex Pucci)
Best Use of Music -- The Rambler (Calvin Lee Reeder)
Best Actor -- Kealan Patrick Burke as Cory (Slime City Massacre)
Best Actress -- Beth Winslet as The Femme Fatale (Stiletto)
Best Cameo Appearance -- Forrest Ackerman as Wheelchair ZomVamp (The Dead Undead)
Best Director -- Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler and The Snake Mountain Colada)
Best Screenplay -- Dead Hooker in a Trunk (Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska)
Best Cinematography -- Red Velvet (Dir: Bruce Dickson; DP: Jim Dickson)
The Most Outrageous -- Zombie Apocalypse Now: A Zombie Hunter (German Magariños)
The Most Creative -- Scars of Youth (John R. Hand)
Audience Awards:
Favorite Feature -- Dead Hooker in a Trunk (Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska)
Favorite Short Film -- Stiletto (William Mager)
Favorite Music Video -- Hallway (Michael Dunn)
Favorite Trailer -- Star Wars Grindhouse (Michael Ramova)
Favorite Special Showcase -- Aaron Mento (Absent and Heathen's Gate)
Special Awards:
Everette Hartsoe's Bad Girl Award -- Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska (Dead Hooker in a Trunk)
Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award -- Luke Goss (The Dead Undead)
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Congratulations Luke! 
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Hey Robyn! What about a sculpture of that particular part of his anatomy! If his gorgeousness 
is willing to pose for it, I'm sure there are planty of volunteers here that would be willing to sculpt it! 
