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      Pontypool

      2008, Horror/Mystery & thriller, 1h 36m

      86 Reviews 5,000+ Ratings

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      Witty and restrained but still taut and funny, this Pontypool is a different breed of low-budget zombie film. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      When disc jockey Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission: the English language.

      • Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Bruce McDonald

      • Producer: Jeffrey Coghlan

      • Writer: Tony Burgess

      • Release Date (Theaters):  limited

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      • Box Office (Gross USA): $3.5K

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: IFC Films

      Cast & Crew

      Lisa Houle
      Boyd Banks
      Tony Burgess
      Rachel Burns
      Raffaele Carniato
      Daniel Fathers
      Hannah Fleming
      Beatriz Yuste
      Tony Burgess
      Henry Cole
      J. Miles Dale
      Jasper Graham
      Claude Foisy
      Miroslaw Baszak
      Jeremiah Munce
      Lea Carlson
      Andrew Berry
      Sarah Armstrong

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      • Apr 04, 2014

        Please! Someone get me some cranberry sauce for this awful turkey!

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      • Sep 19, 2013

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      • Aug 25, 2013

        Although its distinct lack of action can make the movie boring at times, Pontypool does not suffer from a lack of originality. It's clever and unlike any other zombie movie, if I can even call it a zombie movie. The entire movie takes place in a radio broadcasting building in the small Canadian town of Pontypool, where a radio host gets breaking news that hundreds of people are rioting and chanting gibberish. As the off-screen violence seems to escalate, the radio host gradually tries to put together the pieces to understand what's going on. With next to no violence or action being depicted on-screen, Pontypool seems to lack the basic building blocks of a typical zombie movie, yet it's able to build suspense by way of implied violence heard during radio interviews with panicked individuals in the middle of the chaotic events. Because most of the horror is left to the imagination though, it does get a bit tiring after about an hour with little action occurring onscreen. Pontypool is not always the most exciting movie, but it's surprisingly original for a zombie movie and it achieves quite a bit on a shoestring budget.

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      • Jun 14, 2012

        A gravely voiced, caustic, down-at-the-heels radio shock jock demoted to a small town asks his listeners "why would you call 911?" after a strange encounter; just the set-up for a cynical, claustrophibic take on the curious popular notion of a zombie apocalypse. Based on the original Canadian radio play.

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