Pontypool (2008)

3/5 stars

Unique enough to not be your typical zombie movie, but enough corpses walking around to fit the genre. Having the whole story based in a radio station with most of the information and people-eating going on out of sight adds a creepiness that plain gore simply can’t achieve. The acting is tremendous and the characters well rounded, carrying you through the entire hour and a half.

WARNING: SPOILER

The premise for this movie seems like something the writer came up with while high: What if words had the power of disease? The concept is interesting, certain English words as the conduit for a virus and once those words are understood the listeners become raging cannibals. It’s a nice twist in the genre, but conceptually isn’t followed through to the end of the film. The last moments in particular are too ambiguous to give real closure.