“Pollen” (** out of four) was a sodden horror melodrama about a young woman (Ava Rose Kinard) who gets assaulted at work and finds that what was once her dream job has descended into a surreal nightmare as she finds herself struggling to keep her sanity and safety as she is mentally unraveling between the real world and her violent imagination. Writer/director D.W. Medoff seems to be trying for a horror melodrama in the vein of early Cronenberg surrealism but results are overly cerebral and dull. Too intelligent and audacious to be dismissed but overall too unpleasant to easily enjoy.