Comments on: Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool Poster and Trailer (Finally in High-Quality)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:00:40 +0000

The only Bruce McDonald film I’ve seen thus far is The Tracey Fragments, which I thought was amazing. I’ll be interested to see this and find out how he handles a much more normal(?) storyline.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:14:14 +0000

“Pontypool” was definitely one of the better movies I saw at TIFF last year, so I’m pretty excited to see it again.

By: kurt

kurt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:13:49 +0000

Trees give good kill in both Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. The Guardian is another great ‘killer tree’ flick. Not really trees, but the foliage in The Ruins does a pretty good number on the tourists. I love the Creepshow bit featuring Steven King and the ‘meteor-shit’ essentially botany-gone-wild. Lastly, but not least, the trees kick some serious ass in The Two Towers.

By: kurt

kurt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:08:09 +0000

Treevenge is a real hoot. “It’s Christmas and I just want FUCK.”

By: swarez

swarez — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:36:06 +0000

The only proper killer tree film is Treevenge.

But I’m dying to see Pontypool.
For some reason I always envision a Myazaki film when I hear that title.

By: kurt

kurt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:35:44 +0000

It’s all in the execution Tomas. This is one very entertaining film. (I’ll admit that I have a soft spot for THE HAPPENING too)..

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:15:52 +0000

Yawn! Just as silly as the trees killing people in “The Happening”.

By: kurt

kurt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:15:42 +0000

It’s a virus in the language. Look at how slang spreads through culture and talking amongst your friends. Now replace that with psychotic cannibal rage.

Although for a horror picture, this is often quite funny too. This was one of my favourite movies of 2008 after I caught it (twice!) at TIFF.

The Book, Pontypool Changes Everything, is VERY, VERY different from the movie, but it is a solid book if you are looking for something quite different and love a good turn of phrase. The book is more of a collection of short stories tied together via the outbreak.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:00:22 +0000

Well the virus spreads through words… so I guess by talking, you infect other people.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:37:42 +0000

I don’t understand what anything in the movie has to do with not talking in order to stay alive. Is it a zombie flick? Is it a vampire flick? Is it a knock off of a Japanese horror flick? It does look good though.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:24:22 +0000

Pontypool is based on a book called Pontypool Changes Everything by Canadian writer Tony Burgess.

http://www.ecwpress.com/books/pontypool_changes_everything

I haven’t seen Black Robe but according to IMDB it’s funded in part by Telefilm Canada.

By: paulm

paulm — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:10:17 +0000

This sounds a little like Gary Braunbeck’s “We Now Pause for Station Identification” (http://www.garybraunbeck.com/pause.html). They both have a DJ and zombies, but the outbreak spreading by works is a new idea, although Stephen King’s Cell was similar, with that tone or whatever it was that was spread over cellphones. But he didn’t really have zombies. This sounds like fun. I don’t have much experience with Canadian movies, except for Bob and Doug McKenzie, and Corner Gas (I’d love to see Brent Butt on the big screen). Was “Black Robe” a Canadian movie? I did see something on CBC latenight the other night that wasn’t too bad. It was called “Rub & Tug”, and Tara Spencer-Nairn from Corner Gas was in it. I kept expecting Greg to show up in it as a customer.