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:69
Fresh:58
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.7/10
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
This is the sort of film that warrants a second viewing.
10/12/09
Pontypool is a gripping thriller, juiced up by macabre humor and intelligent social commentary.
09/24/09
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
However shrewdly contrived to keep its budget low, Pontypool, set almost entirely in a basement radio station, is a zombie flick sans bite.
09/01/09
Top CriticI have to give kudos to McDonald and Burgess for refreshing the zombie genre in ways I never thought possible.
06/23/09
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06/18/09
...most of the pleasures the movie offers are visceral, from the silken roar of character actor McHattie's FM shock jock voice and the bloody meltdown of a production assistant to the bizarro epilogue appended to the credits.
06/07/09
It's perfectly modulated horror of the imagination, à la Orson Welles' adaptation of The War of the Worlds, with potent ideas about what corrupts, inspires, subverts, and engages us.
06/05/09
For a while, this claustrophobic little horror movie is a dark little treat.
06/05/09
Top CriticIf 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 CriticWith any luck, it will develop the cult it deserves because while its urgency makes it an easy target, Pontypool’s new ideas are commendably gripping.
06/03/09
A film that wrings its terror not from gruesome imagery or sudden visual jolts but through a smart psychological rendering of our universal fear of the unknown.
06/02/09
A a genre-busting maverick of a movie, guarenteed to infuriate and astonish in equal numbers ... if you like your shocks laced with brain-teasing creepiness, Pontypool is the way to go.
06/02/09
Gore fans hoping for buckets of blood will be disappointed; thoughtful horror fans who appreciate that a truly scary movie is mostly in your head will love it.
06/01/09
Effective and spooky and definitely smarter than your average studio fare, Pontypool is an off-the-wall little offering that rewards viewers looking for something different.
05/31/09
Wildly entertaining and inventive. It's a clever and thrilling combination of horror and satire.
05/31/09
Pontypool is a sinister symphony told in three distinct and very diverse macabre movements.
05/31/09
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
A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.
05/29/09
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