Horror needs novelty: familiarity saps terror. Yet film-makers wheel out the same old zombies, slashers, ghosts and monsters time and again to shiver our jaded ...

The 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric Amid a glut of plays based on films, this ...

"Pontypool" Movie Review-- "Pontypool" is "Dawn of the Dead," as rewritten by an eccentric linguistics professor and staged by Orson Welles' old Mercury Theatre radio show -- if you can wrap your mind ...

In the new Canadian thriller "Pontypool," a strange virus is turning the residents of Pontypool, Ontario, into flesh-eating zombies, and a few desperate survivors fight to stave off the mutant ...

‘Pontypool’ is the type of silently intense zombie flicks Romero would be making today had he not gone crazy/old in the past couple of years. It plays out like a nicely paced Twilight Zone episode, ...

Yesterday I posted my interview with Tommy Wirkola whose film "Dead Snow" served up Nazi zombies in a gorefest tribute to Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead" and Peter Jackson's "Braindead." Now I want to ...

When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. I’m in the minority thinking that Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragments” made for ...

Bruce MacDonald’s ‘Pontypool’ was one of the better films I saw down at SXSW this year. You can check out our review for the film right here. Now, word comes down from Cannes and the writer/director ...

Word up: Pontypool is one of the most original and freakily disturbing films of Canadian origin we've seen since David Crononeberg first sent Shivers up our spines. The less you know about it going in ...