PONTYPOOL (2008) Movie Review Round Table!

PONTYPOOL (2008) d. Bruce McDonald (Canada)

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Tonight's selection, PONTYPOOL (2008), celebrating its 15th anniversary, is a fiercely intelligent variation on the “zombie/infected hordes” theme, indelibly anchored by film/TV veteran Stephen McHattie’s charismatic central performance.

Exiled to the wastelands of rural Ontario, former shock jock radio personality Grant Mazzy finds himself caught up in increasingly bizarre circumstances as reports pour in of a deadly, murderous virus sweeping the surrounding area. Director Bruce McDonald cultivates an increasingly claustrophobic atmosphere within the radio station’s confines, further heightened by the on-air team’s frantic attempts to provide listeners with information (little of which is known or forthcoming).

Lisa Houle does well as Sydney, our harried program director, as does Georgina Reilly as Laurel-Ann, the comely, ex-military tech director, but it’s McHattie’s dulcet, whiskey-honed voice tearing into screenwriter Tony Burgess’ dialogue with undisguised relish that you’ll remember as the credits roll. Pontypool is smart and sharp, cruel and clever, dire and dark and full of surprises.

AC is joined by another fantastic group of horror fans: Chris Scales, Mike Mayo, Steve Griffes, and Anna McKibben, who share stories of wrestling Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) for theater seats, impromptu oral interpretations of 50 Shades of Gray, and the magic of "Theater of the Mind."

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