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Pontypool
The story of the fictional film revolves around a vast array of horrific situations, in the small town of Pontipol in Ontario. The events begin when the radio announcer Grant Mazazi talks to a woman through the radio, but strange things happen from this woman, she hesitates a lot of blood and then closes the line. The announcer discovers that this is a dangerous virus that destroys people.
13 November 1965, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
16 April 1964, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
23 March 1966, London, England, UK
12 February 1986, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
3 February 1947, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
1950, Khartoum, Sudan
December 01, 2010
Alarmingly intelligent and deeply disorienting, Pontypool plays as a radically different film upon subsequent viewings, its metaphor-filled dialogue seeming to shift and alter in meaning with every scene.
July 06, 2010
As a horror fan, this high-minded Talk Radio of the Living Dead left me as cold as a Pontypool winter.
June 05, 2009
If you're a devotee of the deranged mind of Canadian indie auteur Bruce McDonald, then I can just tell you that he's made a horror movie (kind of) and that Pontypool is it.
January 27, 2010
Laurie Anderson would be proud: language is a virus in [this] zombie(-esque) thriller set almost entirely within the walls of a basement radio station.
April 30, 2016
Tightly scripted (Tony Burgess) and directed (Bruce McDonald), but Stephen McHattie's Mazzy is the star!
January 30, 2010
Its a mighty strange beast, an intellectual B-movie that offers equal parts semiotics and projectile gore.
October 16, 2009
This cerebral horror movie plays Scrabble with the genre's cinematic lingo.
August 09, 2010
A winning combination of shuddery suspense and intelligent observations.
May 29, 2009
A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.
September 01, 2009
However shrewdly contrived to keep its budget low, Pontypool, set almost entirely in a basement radio station, is a zombie flick sans bite.
December 17, 2009
This low-budget picture is a little too claustrophobic, and it grows tedious. The ominous, overbearing musical score tries but fails to jack up the tension.
June 05, 2009
For a while, this claustrophobic little horror movie is a dark little treat.