Pontypool
Pontypool
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From Canadian cult filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Roadkill; The Tracey Fragments) comes this resourceful thriller about shock jock Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie), his radio crew (Lisa Houle and Georgina Reilly), and the virus that's spreading all around their basement studio in rural Pontypool, Ontario. During their morning show, they keep hearing reports of mobs of cannibals roving the streets. Instead of a toxic spill, blood disease, or botched vaccine, though, the source is much more sinister: the English language! Excusez-moi!? "...suggests a deadpan spoof of War of the Worlds...eventually makes a giant satiric leap...transforming William S. Burroughs's notion that language is a virus into flesh-eating reality" (New York Times).

Bruce McDonald---Canada---2008---96 mins.

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