42 - 'Pontypool' Will Make You Eat Your Words!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:01AM So after reviewing Word Wars last week, we totally had words on the brain. What better to follow up a documentary on Scrabble than to jump in to a FREAKING WEIRD movie about word zombies?
Canadians come up with the oddest zombie flicks, so sit back and watch what you say, the "virus" is spread through understanding...
Direct episode download (200MB)
Special thanks to fans Dale Lloyd and @Alexlyons for recommending this flick!
***UPDATE***
Our review caught the attention of Mr. Tony Burgess (the writer of Pontypool Changes Everything
best review of Pontypool I have heard yet. The difficulty in `getting it', `liking it', even recommending it is supposed to be the pleasure. Especially the question over whether everything works or nothing works and the choices you have to make as a viewer to determine one over the other. It's a pleasure i look for when i hunt a specific kind of film and it was definitely something I thought while writing 'er.
so thanks for the awesome review. I don't normally pop in doctor thru a window style on reviewers but this was so good.ciao T
Woot! He likes us! He REALLY likes us!
***UPDATE NUMBER TWO***
Our Twitter pal @shimoroka found the Pontypool Radio play ONLINE!!!
You can listen to it courtesy of the BBC!
Pontypool Radio Play
drama, experimental, horror, independent, zombies in Episode
Reader Comments (11)
So, this video crashed my firefox twice in a row, anyone else having thisproblem, going to attempt to watch it a third time.
Ah! can anyone send me a google wave invite?! I have to do this viewing :O!
wrinkliez AT gmail DOT com
Hey all.
We've gotten a couple complaints about firefox crashing. We've replaced the video with our blip feed. If anyone who was having problems can try it out, we'd appreciate it!
Thanks it's working now. In the meantime I just downloaded the video, but thanks anyways. Great episode by the way.
Also, I think it takes the idea of the virus and the location from a book called "Pontypool Changes Everything".
First time I checked out this site due to PONTYPOOL.....loved the review. I'll begin to follow. I thought PONTYPOOL was kick ass combining the great zombie genre with the idea of our words causing infection. PONTYPOOL, a true satire of the effects of media and what we consider "relevant" news.
Hello Anthony!
Thanks for checking us out!
I was REALLY taken with the macabre and bizarre feel of Pontypool, and any film that can generate THAT much claustrophobia is going to be a winner in my book.
If you have any suggestions on a film to cover, drop us a line on our contact page!
i also owe my mymhm happiness to pontypool! when it was over i couldn't decide whether or not i liked it (haha) and a google search led me here. O sweet fortune! great review and great site!
I'm glad you found us Melissa!
What a great flick to find us on too.
Awesome review of an awesomely weird movie, but please, can anybody tell me wtf the scene tacked on after the credits was about?
Just before the long hold on the poster in the child-kicking scene, Grant ducks down out of frame. Maybe it was just wonky editing, but it you're watching closely he vanishes before he gets all the way out of view. That creeped me the hell out. It was like a Hitchcock thing and it made me wonder whether he was hallucinating or infected or something. There are actually several weird little things like that, so my verdict is "carefully orchestrated non-standard editing" for the purpose of f'ing up the viewer's cinematic reflexes.
The radiodrama version (actually just a shorter edit of the movie's audio) is circulating as a BitTorrent. Visit radioarchive-dawt-cc if your BT client can't find it.