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Plot Summary
From Bruce McDonald, among Canada's most distinctive filmmakers. Shock jock Grant (Stephen McHattie) has once again been kicked off Big City air waves, so now it's the early shift at CLSY Radio, broadcasting from the basement of the only church in tiny Pontypool. A day that begins with a litany of school closings due to a massive storm quickly turns deadly. Bizarre reports come in: people speaking in tongues...horrendous acts of violence. But there's nothing on the news wires... "Numerous critics have described PONTYPOOL as 'a thinking person's zombie flick'...I would also add riveting and wonderfully weird…unquestionably the most original horror idea of the past year - perhaps the past several years" –Uncle Creepy, DREAD CENTRAL. "the notion that we are all being driven mad by an incessant verbal deluge makes nasty comic sense" –Holden, NY TIMES. From IFC Films.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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82%- Reviews Counted: 79
- Fresh: 65
- Rotten: 14
- Average Rating: 6.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A small Canadian horror film that makes the most of its minuscule budget.
Rotten: However shrewdly contrived to keep its budget low, Pontypool, set almost entirely in a basement radio station, is a zombie flick sans bite.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.
Customer Reviews
Pontypool
For being set almost entirely in a basement, this movie really paid off for me. Its much more of a psychological thriller than a horror movie and there are very few actual zombies in it. but when they come they devastate, like this movie does, and does well.
amazing
I watched this film a few years ago… It’s amazing… very well done… Tense!
mehhh
I wanted to like this movie, and tried hard to at least enjoy it, but alas, I couldn't.
It has a really original plot and I respect it for that(where the 2 star rating came from) but this is a zombie movie and there wasn't much of them in it.
you can put whatever pseudo intellectual/analytical spin on it you want, but in the end, boring movie was boring.
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