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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 26, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle & Georgina Reilly | |
Performer: | Hrant Alianak | |
Directed by | Bruce McDonald | |
Screenwriting by | Tony Burgess | |
Produced by | Ambrose Roche & Jeffrey Coghlan | |
Director of Photography: | Miroslaw Baszak |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Scene-Stealers.com
[T]here are a few effective jolts, and the script has flashes of macabre wit that McHattie relishes. His character is well drawn, and his commanding performance is the best reason to consider seeing the movie.
Hollywood Reporter
[A] small Canadian horror film that makes the most of its miniscule budget....The film captures the monotonous daily rituals of broadcasting from inside a studio that feels so sealed off from the outside world that nothing beyond the sound booth seems real.
New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- As much about ideas as it is about generating scares, the film is an arresting linguistic mystery...
Box Office
I liked it, with some reservations.
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Maclean's Magazine
[T]his wildly imaginative siege drama/psuedo-zombie flick, confined almost entirely within a radio broadcast studio, makes good on the promise of Canadian maverick Bruce McDonald's preceding feature THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS.
Film Comment
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.
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Product Description:
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 Grant Mazzy, who can only find work in Pontypool, Ontario, where he broadcasts his show from the church basement. The monotony of relaying the small-town news of a blizzard is broken when Grant begins to report strange stories of violence to his listeners. It is soon revealed that there’s a virus infecting the whole town, and Grant and his coworkers barricade themselves in the office. But the virus doesn’t use the standard methods of blood or air for its transmission; instead, language is responsible for the disease, which leaves Grant wondering whether it is better to spread the news or keep quiet.
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- Sales Rank: 51,090
- UPC: 030306930794
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