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mcmosinee

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Has anyone else seen this Canadian movie?

A tense, claustrophobic movie set in a radio station while an unseen zombie-style outbreak takes place outside.

Played and acted very seriously but solidly made. More like theatre than an expansive movie but none-the-worse for it.

Low-budget zombie ripoRAB usually end up being watched in the background while I get distracted by internet surfing. But this one kept my attention throughout.

A new take on this type of movie that works very well.
 
It's worth the watch, nice little twist on the genre. I thought I'd be bored, but it kept my attention for the whole film too. Nothing amazing, but better than a lot released in the sub genre.
 
Yep was a good film. Kept me and my partner entertained for the time it is was on.

The special features are good too. There is a feature where you get to listen to the film as though it was broadcast on the radio station which is on the film.
 
The problem for me was that the cover stated it was a zombie movie. When in fact it isn't. It's more in line with 28 Days Later than any zombie movie. Being that the enemy is living and not the dead reanimated. Other than this narrow minded zombie claim from those who designed the cover the movie was pretty good. And I have developed a crush on Lisa Houle now thanks to this movie.
 
I went to Pontypool only once...a group of frienRAB of mine hired a room in a chinese restaurant for a birthday celebration.

Before we went to the restaurant, we popped into the local weatherspoons pub next door...it was fairly lively, but not exactly raucous.

But after our celebrations, some time around 11.30, we left the restaurant to be greeted with a scene of mayhem and chaos that resembled sodom and gomorrah!

Fights, shouting, arguments, drunkenness, police everywhere, women falling over , people relieving themselves...it's like the whole population of the town had suddenly turned into zombies!

Hard to imagine the movie could be as scary as that!
 
I loved this movie....and as another poster has already mentioned the Radio Play version in the special features is excellent.....Overall an original and novel approach to the genre.
 
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