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TIFF '08: First Official Stills From 'Pontypool'
Wednesday, August 27, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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One of the dozen of horror films making its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September is Bruce McDonald's Pontypool, which was recently acquired for release by Maple Pictures. Up until today (this very moment to be exact), nothing has really been known about the film other than the film followed a small-town radio station that discovers that recent madness in the local population may be caused by a virus transmitted through speech. Today we got our hands on the official synopsis, along with six stills from the film! Read on to check 'em out.

Shock jock Grant Mazzy has, once again, been kicked-off the Big City airwaves and now the only job he can get is the early morning show at CLSY Radio in Pontypool Ontario, which broadcasts from the basement of the small town’s only church.

What begins as another boring day of school bus cancellations, due to yet another massive snow storm, quickly turns deadly when reports start piling in of people developing strange speech patterns and evoking horrendous acts of violence start piling in. Bu there’s nothing coming in on the news wires. Is this really happening?

Before long, Grant and the small staff at CLSY find themselves trapped in the radio station as they discover that this insane behaviour taking over the town is actually a deadly virus being spread through the English language itself.

Do they stay on the air in the hopes of being rescued or, are they in fact providing the virus with its ultimate leap over the airwaves and into the world?

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slasher_12
12:50am, August 27, 2008

EEK! I know exactly where those doors are. i was in a blizzard scene, and i went up to those doors. My scene features a helicopter and stuff. It was AWESOME. I can't wait for this! I was wearing a blue hoodie too:) Anyways, that fake snow tasted like ass...


gorebath
9:10am, August 27, 2008

Sounds too much like CELL combined with the SIGNAL......Hopefully ROB ZOMBIE is the word that sets everybody off. Happens here at BD!


djblack1313
11:32am, August 27, 2008

i think this sounds AWESOME! i admit that it does sound like a hybrid of CELL & The SIGNAL, but that's fine w/ me. i love the book CELL and i really liked The Signal, so i'm in!


betz1369
12:53pm, August 27, 2008

blah blah!! anyone ever hear of 'dead air'? sounds alot like that but dead air is zombies. and it stars bill moseley, fuck this rip off.


CharlieGirl
11:23pm, November 21, 2008

Whoever came up with the premise for this movie spends a lot of time around teenage girls. "Don't talk, you'll become a zombie."


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