In an era of generic horror films, this has enough ideas to stand out.
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10/16/09
Pontypool (2009)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:58
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
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
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.
06/05/09
Top CriticMcHattie and Houle are terrific as the besieged duo.
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
throws up so many Freudian slips, mixed metaphors and free-associative leaps that in the end the main characters' (and our own) grip on reality comes unstuck, and the unfolding apocalypse takes on a positively Saussurean aspect.
09/07/09
Wildly entertaining and inventive. It's a clever and thrilling combination of horror and satire.
05/31/09
I have to give kudos to McDonald and Burgess for refreshing the zombie genre in ways I never thought possible.
06/23/09
Pontypool is a sinister symphony told in three distinct and very diverse macabre movements.
05/31/09
While PONTYPOOL is a thought-provoking and suspenseful film, some of the flaws will really take the audience out of the movie.
05/20/09
Part of a new breed of highbrow 'concept' horror that shrugs off and/or embraces the constraints of limited production means and instead picks at the nasty mental scabs of what truly unnerves, Pontypool has the twin advantages of a provocative prem
05/29/09
Pontypool is a gripping thriller, juiced up by macabre humor and intelligent social commentary.
09/24/09
Talk Radio meets 28 Days Later. Somehow Pontypool makes it work - if you don't mind the lack of gore.
05/18/09
In Bruce McDonald's suitably weird zombie movie, the coin of the shock jock's own realm -- language -- is the source of all the trouble.
05/29/09
Pontypool is, in all senses, brain food -- and juicy.
05/26/09
Top CriticAn original take on genre movies of its kind.
10/20/09
'Pontypool' succeeds where many a less intelligent, purely visceral-visual movie leaves us cold.
03/28/09
Sometimes gets bogged down in its own weirdness, but a genuinely unique piece of horror filmmaking.
05/28/09
A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.
05/29/09
The latest evidence that you don't need a lot of money to make an effectively chilling horror movie.
05/29/09
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