Review of Pontypool (2009) by Shawn M — 12 Nov 2009
Both good and bad. It starts off well, and the phoned in eye witness accounts are chilling, however the second half of the film takes it in quite a high concept direction, which might be hard for some people to swallow, and it starts adding humour, which takes away most of the tension. The use of the doctor felt a bit clumsy too, as it was just shoehorned in to explain stuff very quickly.
However it's great lesson on how make a film on a very low budget, plus it would work as a stage play too. Someone needs to steal the idea of the phoned in eyewitness accounts as that works really well and you could make a decent horror film on that alone. I'm also very interested to see what the director does next, as it's a very original film.
This review of Pontypool (2009) was written by Shawn M on 12 Nov 2009.
Pontypool has generally received positive reviews.
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