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Witty and restrained but still taut and funny, this Pontypool is a different breed of low-budget zombie film.
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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. December 1, 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.
Anton Bitel
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. 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.
Stephen Farber
An original take on genre movies of its kind. October 20, 2009 | Rating: 3/5
An original take on genre movies of its kind.
Derek Malcolm
This cerebral horror movie plays Scrabble with the genre's cinematic lingo. October 16, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This cerebral horror movie plays Scrabble with the genre's cinematic lingo.
Nigel Floyd
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. October 16, 2009 | Full Review…
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.
Wendy Ide
An utterly baffling and stunningly boring zombie horror thriller. October 16, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
An utterly baffling and stunningly boring zombie horror thriller.
Peter Bradshaw
An original story. Strong performances, particularly from Stephen McHattie. A film that prays on innermost fears of society and individuals. Frightening. Terrifying. Thought provoking. November 13, 2019 | Full Review…
An original story. Strong performances, particularly from Stephen McHattie. A film that prays on innermost fears of society and individuals. Frightening. Terrifying. Thought provoking.
Debbie Lynn Elias
An all-time great zombie film. January 19, 2019 | Full Review…
An all-time great zombie film.
Evan Dossey
It's when our grasping for digestible concepts, clear causality, or anything resembling resolution is as thwarted as the characters' struggle to articulate or take action, that we're in the best position to absorb Pontypool's full impact. March 27, 2018 | Full Review…
It's when our grasping for digestible concepts, clear causality, or anything resembling resolution is as thwarted as the characters' struggle to articulate or take action, that we're in the best position to absorb Pontypool's full impact.
José Teodoro
I liked it, with some reservations. December 16, 2017 | Full Review…
I liked it, with some reservations.
Brian D. Johnson
Pontypool's very resonant, localized fright, is to make sense of - to define - the inexplicable. August 23, 2017 | Full Review…
Pontypool's very resonant, localized fright, is to make sense of - to define - the inexplicable.
Mark Asch
Pontypool has an awful lot going for it. It's technically well made, well acted, creepy, funny, and weird. It's the kind of movie that, if it's seen in the right place and right time, can really have an effect on you. June 24, 2017 | Full Review…
Pontypool has an awful lot going for it. It's technically well made, well acted, creepy, funny, and weird. It's the kind of movie that, if it's seen in the right place and right time, can really have an effect on you.
Abby Olcese
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