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Ep 56 - PONTYPOOL (2008): CANADIAN HORROR DONE RIGHT!!!
PONTYPOOL (2008) d. Bruce McDonald (Canada)
Pontypool, celebrating its 15th anniversary, is a fiercely intelligent variation on the "zombie/infected hordes" theme, indelibly anchored by film/TV veteran Stephen McHattie's charismatic central performance. Exiled to the wastelands of rural Ontario, former shock jock radio personality Grant Mazzy finds himself caught up in increasingly bizarre circumstances as reports pour in of a deadly, murderous virus sweeping the surrounding area.
Director Bruce McDonald cultivates an increasingly claustrophobic atmosphere within the radio station's confines…
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