Year: 2008 Length: 96
Source: Canada
Color: B / NC
Genre: Horror , Thriller
From: novel Pontypool Changes Everything Tony Burgess
Production: Jeffrey Coghlan, Ambrose Roche up to Ponty Pictures, Shadow Shows
Prohibited: No
Director: Bruce McDonald
Sometimes we are advised that film then we end up not ever see. Well, this is a bad habit I had and I learned to lose after I have been advised that the film now I love passionately.
In this case we have another little gem, another extract of American independent cinema.
Pontypool tells the story of Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie, the "Nite Owl I" of the latest Watchmen), a radio speaker that no longer young, when he loses yet another contract, is forced to accept a job at a small radio station in town of Pontypool, the CLSY, Ontario.
During a normal transmission, are reported abnormal acts around at the clinic of a certain Dr. Mendez, and the more time goes by, the left began to report strange happenings at that point, cannibalism, blood everywhere, and quoting his words, "naked people that freaks out and acts like animals."
The search continues for information and three closes in the study - Which is none other than the basement of a church - when it is announced that the town is in a state of quarantine. Within the study of CLSY things seem to be quiet, but really even there the "virus" seems to lie in wait.
No, stop all. I already know what you're thinking and I confirm my answer: "no, stop all". This is no ordinary film about a virus that infects people turning into zombies. This is not the usual horror that we usually see, dull and monotonous.
I must say that at first sight I was pleasantly surprised at the style of direction, very clean, and the performance of the three protagonists - two of which they first appear. But the most interesting this movie is the plot. I think it is brilliant, but maybe all the mediocrity that our country there flapping in my face, I am a miracle too often. Also are not the only one to be impressed, I have heard many positive opinions about it. I would like to avoid spoilers , but in this case I think is inevitable given the nature of the virus is the brilliant thing of all: nothing escaped in laboratory experiments or strange curses the Indian Pet Cemetery. And even the apocalypse or other disasters (Amen?) Similar. Here, the vehicle of death is the "word". That's right, the word, our language, the only thing that distinguishes man from any other creature. The virus is spread through the spoken and the only way to get away from them and try to totally lose the sense of that word that has infected.
bed so it seems absurd, and it probably is, but the film is made so well, that should be seen only for the part of directors. But I repeat myself and say that the best part is the subject, although it is based on a novel.
The film goes through several stages, but still managed to keep a layer of tension that does not unfold even at the end. It is unsettling and affects the viewer in the middle that does not remain satisfied with the film, are sure it will bring back its original long.
Obviously I should have seen this film in English, because Italy has not been distributed or the cinema or home video. Nor did I expect such a thing from our country, obviously.
However prcurarvelo try and watch it as it is, in the original language: it certainly gain in intensity.
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