Movie Review: Pontypool

Pontypool

Director: Bruce McDonald
Year: 2008
Genre: Horror
Notable Cast: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly
Netflix Link: Pontypool
Quote to Note: Do we really want to provide genocide with elevator music?

Review: What would you get if you combined Pump Up the Volume with Dawn of the Dead? Something similar to Pontypool. To classify this film, I am going to create a new genre called Word-Horror. But before you question this new soon to be overused genre, let me state that Word-Horror has no relation to how hard it is to use bullets in Microsoft's Word Processing application (although it is terrifying). The premise is, that understanding the meaning of certain words and repeating them until you no longer understand, can spread a verbal-virus turning people into monsters akin to zombies. This is high concept shit and shouldn't be taken lightly. If this were a possibility, you could be eating your family for dinner just by reading this shitty review out loud.

Anyway, on to what your looking for in this review... There are no boats in this film despite it taking place in Canada, because we all know boats are fucking everywhere up there. Although, there is a line of dialog early in the movie that mentions boats. The main character states "Good, now we're both in the same boat" which is just as good as there actually being a boat.

Score:
(7 Nolte Heads out of 10)