It's when our grasping for digestible concepts, clear causality, or anything resembling resolution is as thwarted as the characters' struggle to articulate or take action, that we're in the best position to absorb Pontypool's full impact.

| Mar 27, 2018

This low-budget picture is a little too claustrophobic, and it grows tedious. The ominous, overbearing musical score tries but fails to jack up the tension.

Full Review | Dec 17, 2009

An original take on genre movies of its kind.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2009

Inventive and genuinely suspenseful, this is a welcome addition to the expanding zombie/virus canon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2009

This cerebral horror movie plays Scrabble with the genre's cinematic lingo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2009

It's always an unexpected bonus in a zombie film to find the brains evident in the screenplay rather than splattered all over the scenery.

| Oct 16, 2009

An utterly baffling and stunningly boring zombie horror thriller.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 16, 2009

Tight as a drum and the most inventive spin on a zombie-plague premise in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2009

An immersive film built on inference and interrupted signals rather than cheap shock-jock tactics. But the question remains: why the hell didn't they call it Dead Air?

Full Review | Oct 16, 2009

Bruce McDonald directs a tiptop cast. Tony Burgess, scripting from his own novel, clearly saw the grand guignol potential in the computer virus, in the way great plagues can be planted in tiny units of understanding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2009

McHattie and Houle are terrific as the besieged duo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2009

A masterclass in building horror atmosphere. Finally, it's a zombie film with the one thing zombies have been crying out for all these years: BRRAAAIIINNNSS.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2009

However shrewdly contrived to keep its budget low, Pontypool, set almost entirely in a basement radio station, is a zombie flick sans bite.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2009

If you're a devotee of the deranged mind of Canadian indie auteur Bruce McDonald, then I can just tell you that he's made a horror movie (kind of) and that Pontypool is it.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2009

With any luck, it will develop the cult it deserves because while its urgency makes it an easy target, Pontypool's new ideas are commendably gripping.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2009

Effective and spooky and definitely smarter than your average studio fare, Pontypool is an off-the-wall little offering that rewards viewers looking for something different.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 31, 2009

A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2009

What's a zombie movie without zombies? A dull zombie movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2009

There are dozens of zombie films worse than Pontypool and hardcore genre fans may find something to like, but casual aficionados of the undead should shuffle on.

| May 29, 2009

A small Canadian horror film that makes the most of its minuscule budget.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 29, 2009