It´s a mighty strange beast, an intellectual B-movie that offers equal parts semiotics and projectile gore.
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01/30/10
Pontypool (2009)
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Reviews Counted:75
Fresh:62
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Witty and restrained but still taut and funny, this Pontypool is a different breed of low-budget zombie film.
Theatrical Release:May 29, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: It’s not just the snow storm that’s chilling in this Canadian zombie movie from director Bruce McDonald (THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS). Stephen McHattie (WATCHMEN) stars as controversy-courting radio DJ... [More]
Starring: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Hrant Alianak, Georgina Reilly
Director: Bruce McDonald
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Reviews for Pontypool
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.
01/27/10
Interesting zombie flick. A little too claustrophobic with all of the scenes in a makeshift radio station. Too much description and not enough action, almost like War of the World's radio broadcast. Still, worth watching once. Paul Chambers, CNN.
01/15/10
This year Canada's PONTYPOOL ranks as high as any United States science fiction films I have seen.
01/07/10
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.
12/17/09
Top CriticAn entertaining cerebral chiller.
11/08/09
Compellingly apocalyptic.
10/20/09
An original take on genre movies of its kind.
10/20/09
Inventive and genuinely suspenseful, this is a welcome addition to the expanding zombie/virus canon.
10/16/09
This cerebral horror movie plays Scrabble with the genre’s cinematic lingo.
10/16/09
This unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror. Pontypool is as astonishing as it is original, and amply repays multiple viewings.
10/16/09
It’s always an unexpected bonus in a zombie film to find the brains evident in the screenplay rather than splattered all over the scenery.
10/16/09
An utterly baffling and stunningly boring zombie horror thriller.
10/16/09
Tight as a drum and the most inventive spin on a zombie-plague premise in years.
10/16/09
An immersive film built on inference and interrupted signals rather than cheap shock-jock tactics. But the question remains: why the hell didn’t they call it Dead Air?
10/16/09
Ignore the shaky tongue-tied opening fifteen minutes; when Pontypool gets its words in order it reminds you how much creepy fun can be had in keeping the horror tantalisingly offscreen.
10/16/09
Big on atmos, low on incident, this claustrophobic chiller captures the hysteria of a town flailing on the frontline of disaster.
10/16/09
Talky and claustrophobic, Pontypool is a mash-up of Orson Welles' notorious The War of the Worlds radio broadcast and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, with a tone and cast that's reminiscent of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13.
10/16/09
Too much jaw, not enough gore.
10/16/09
In its best moments the film offers an entertaining throwback to the Seventies heyday of John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, when a creepy situation could be just as effective as a burst of stomach-churning special effects.
10/16/09
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