Review of Pontypool (2009) by Ricardo C — 05 Nov 2011

Creepy and scary. Effectively psychological, thrilling, and horror. Smart how the angle of the story starts out where you're simply clued in on the terror with the chilling details, letting your imagination run wild and paranoid at first instead of cheaply revealing the action.

No, the writer knows it's more terrifying to the audience to omit the graphic elements such as in most epidemiologic horror movies where mayhem and blood and guts are common. The suspense keeps one engaged and as curious as the characters up until some of the last scenes when reason is applied to the plot, and I suspect many might be put off by the linguistics component, thinking it slightly ludicrous and unscary, but I thought it was fitting and even scarier for English-speaking monolinguals.

McHattie would be hard to be played by another actor as his role seems to be impeccably in tune with his voice, and a lot of other minor parts throughout such as the introduction are directed scarily to the point where I can recommend this fully for a dark and chilly night.