As a general rule of thumb, any poster featuring someone’s brains being splattered all over the place is a-ok in my book, and the lastet poster for PONTYPOOL is no exception. In fact, more than just blood and brains, the poster is stylish in its choice of colors, font, and overall design–bravo!
In a way, it almost reminds of something you’d see for a graphic novel, with similarities to other stylish posters (like the one for DEATH SENTANCE awhile back), which is great for those who dig that kind of thing (like me).
As a refresher, PONTYPOOL goes like this: The flick is set in a radio station in Pontypool where one day the morning team starts taking reports of extreme, bloody incidents of violence occurring in town. As the story unfolds, the radio staff soon realizes the violence that is ripping society apart is due to a virus being spread through the English language. That in turn poses a problem for a yappy radio jock and his staff holed up in the broadcast booth housed in the basement of the town’s abandoned church as a slaughter rages beyond its walls.
And suddenly the dude wearing headphones all makes sense (they’re in a radio station!), which is good cause it was gonna drive me nuts trying to figure out what those where doing there. To check out the full poster in its high-res glory, click HERE, and get ready for PONTYPOOL to hit U.S. theaters May 29. 2009. If you’re lucky enough to be in Canada, it’s actually coming to a theater near you on March 6th–practically 3 months earlier. Nice!
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