14.2.11

pontypool (2008)


"I quoted the bible. There's ain't no jokes in the bible!"
A talk radio station in a small Canadian town has a breakfast show with Grant (Stephen McHattie) a fractious radio host. His grouchy world is interupted when news of a riot turns nasty comes in. His producer Sydney (Lisa Houle) and engineer Laurel-Ann (Georgina Reilly) try and get on top of the story as it breaks.
A psychological horror in which we are dependent on the radio presenters to be our eyes and ears. A trick that opens up the imagination to run riot, as we are fed snippits of information via news reports, as a deadly virus infects the town. The effectiveness of the horror conveyed by the news reports added to the claustrophobia of the studio, makes for an effective horror. An imaginative twist on the language is a virus theory.

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