Pontypool

Anyone familiar with GREMLINS or Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast will know that every disaster needs a deejay. Cue down-on-his-luck shock jock Grant Mazzy (McHattie), banished to the small Canadian town of Pontypool. Whilst doing his radio show, disturbing reports of bloody riots filter in from callers – and soon the zombie-like hordes are laying siege to his studio. Director McDonald (HIGHWAY 61) toys with the horror genre, fashioning something fresh in the process. Based on screenwriter Tony Burgess’s novel Pontypool Changes Everything, this is horror with a great, big, verbose difference – not least in character actor Stephen McHattie’s motormouth performance.

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